But its prime target was Nintendo, according to a 2020 email leaked during the FTC v Microsoft trial.
Microsoft wanting to buy Valve and Nintendo should tell you just how much what they really want is a monopoly on gaming.
If Microsoft loves anything, it’s monopolies.
They all want a monopoly, not just Microsoft. Microsoft are just the only ones that could afford it.
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Considering Gabe is ex-microsoft and wants to distance himself as much as possible from them, I highly doubt that’d work, he’d go down fighting at the very least.
No need to go down fighting. Valve is a private company. They can just say no.
The problem is when he goes down.
Gabe won’t live forever.
Or will he?
We need to fund some altered carbon stuff right now
Valve is more than Gabe.
Does he want to distance himself? Gabe said he learned more in his short months-long tenure at MS than he did in the rest of his academic career. He dropped out of Harvard, mind you.
He modeled his entire company off of MS. He even adopted their primary strategy, buy, polish and package. It’s literally just embrace, extend, extinguish all over. Balmer taught him very well.
I really don’t get why people think he’s all that different from any other billionaire. He got there by buying out competition, and if they wouldn’t sell, theft and litigation.
Not saying he’s different from other rich people, but Valve developing both SteamOS and Proton is a clear message they don’t want to rely on Microsoft and their software.
Is there a company they wouldn’t buy? Unity maybe?
Why not? Buy low, right? Best time to it is after a company stupidly tabled their value and trust right 😂
Honestly might not be such a bad idea. Unity is built on .Net, which Microsoft also owns. The teams could work together to get Unity modernized and cleaned up, and I bet developers would trust Microsoft more than Unity (Consider that Microsoft also owns VS Code, Github, npm and more that tons of devs frequently use)
He’s said that way before 2020, also. Publicly. It seems that has not changed. Most in that kind of position would come to the same conclusions of buying up the competition and making money off their products. It’s cheaper, it’s easier, you already get the infrastructure and customer base, etc. What capitalist wouldn’t try to go that route?
Exactly. He’d be a terrible exec if he didn’t want to.
God, please, no. If ever you heed your humble servant…
Not to worry. I think this qualifies as a “cold day in Hell” situation.
Somebody please tell Gabe that even if he would walk away with billions of dollars he’s going to lose his soul in the process.
It’s just not worth it, tell Microsoft to go take a long walk off of a short pier into a vat of battery acid.
It’s a bummer that the government wasn’t able to stop the recent acquisition of activision, but hopefully that cooled Microsoft’s eagerness a little.
It’s not done yet, definitely still a good chance it’s blocked. I don’t think it should be, but it very well could be.
Why do you think corporate consolidation should happen? Every time it does it benefits the corporations and never the consumer. Anti-trust is incredibly important to keep business from taking control of aspects of our culture and socialization.
What a coincidence, me too!
Microsoft needs to to have a massive anti trust lawsuit thrown at them
Microsoft is a US company operating in the US. That means US law dose not apply.
