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Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat
That's basically been the basis of Sony and FTC's arguments against Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard. Biggest counter given to that argument has been Nintendo and they've been perfectly fine without CoD games and minimum AB support for their consoles.
Another issue is just the sheer scale of the price tag since that's unprecedented in video game history and dwarfs what Micorosft paid for Zenimax a couple years ago. That price tag alone was going to set off flags with the FTC regardless of all the monopoly and other stuff talks. For some reference, Microsoft's offer for AB is almost 2/3rd the value of Sony's current net worth.
Real reason is Sony is legit scared over losing a ton of money they get from CoD sales on PSN should the purchase go through and Microsoft pulls the plug on CoD games on Playstation platforms in the future. That was a key reason why they wrestled exclusive content control away from MS when they had the chance to do so and helped shift the perception of CoD now being a Playstation first platform.
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MS already guaranteed they would keep CoD going everywhere for the next 10 years. That gives you a decade to get your shit together. If you can't do it in a decade, probably aren't doing that great anyway.
Surprised no one sued over Gamepass, lol. Innovate better, competition, then maybe you won't rely on a single fucking title.
Stupid.