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Any company's "ecosystem" is bad
Not when there's competition that drives improvement across the comparable choices. Personally, I see this deal as a good thing long-term because it would force Sony to continue actually competing after having been complacent the entire PS4 generation. Most of the potential downsides stem from Microsoft owning Call of Duty and being able to bend it to their whim, but people here should know better than anyone that having alternatives to a massive, increasingly shitty product is a good thing, and Sony will be busting their ass to get one up, running, and popular prior to that 10 year deadline.
Corporate mergers reduce competition, not increase it
Exactly, I don't see how Microsoft taking Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Starfield, and other games away from Sony and Nintendo increases competition.
It just forces people to buy into their ecosystem (Xbox or Windows) if they want to play the games they could play in their prefered platform before
To really have a real choice you need to have interoperable choices at several levels. Choosing between two jails is not really a choice.