“We have lost the console war,” says Trillion Dollar Underdog Xbox

A constant theme throughout The whole sad Activision Blizzard buyout saga It has been like so much Sony and Microsoft has completely dismantled its own businesses in an attempt to convince regulators to get away with it. The latest effort is courtesy of the Ongoing US Federal Trade Commission Court Casewhere Microsoft, the trillion dollar tech titan, has once again tried to paint itself as the underdog, in an effort to pull off its $69 billion buyout.

“The Xbox console has consistently ranked third (out of three) behind PlayStation in sales,” the Redmond firm noted, boasting that it only has a 16 percent market share. “Xbox has lost the console war and its rivals are positioned to continue to dominate, even by taking advantage of exclusive content. Xbox has consistently ranked third in consoles behind PlayStation and Nintendo.

While it’s true that PlayStation has routinely used its position to secure console and timed exclusives, such as final fantasy 16, for example, which launched today, is a tactic generally employed by all manufacturers. In fact, it was recently revealed that red drop was in development for PS5 prior to Bethesda’s publisher buyout – and star field It was also famous planned for PlayStation at one point also.

no discussion with Microsoft’s comment on Xbox behind PlayStation and Nintendo in hardware sales, since these are facts. Yet it’s hard to take a company’s loser act at face value when it’s only happening as part of an attempt to close a $69 billion buyout — an acquisition so unthinkable that the Redmond firm is just one of the few. few companies on the planet with pockets deep enough to finance it.