[Cyph0n]

Can you share an example of Sony buying a company at the scale of Activision and turning it exclusive?

The only recent significant studio acquisitions I can think of already had a long history of making PS exclusives (e.g., Insomniac).

[elzbardico]

Because they don't have the kind of money to do that.

But they never cared about windows and Xbox players when the game stakes were low enough for them to play the exclusive game.

[Hamuko]

The fact that Sony, who Microsoft insists is absolutely obliterating them in the gaming space, doesn't have the money to enact these sorts of massive mega-mergers seems telling that this kind of a deal is not just a natural part of the market. Rather, Microsoft is just leverating their wealth from their other businesses to armstrong the market.