Xbox should buy PlayStation and end the console wars – Reader’s Feature
A reader argues that Microsoft should look to acquire Sony and focus both companies on making the best games and consoles possible.
A lot of people are upset that Microsoft has bought Bethesda and Activision Blizzard and I understand it. For myself though I am all for it. Even from the very early days I have been in favour of a one format future and yet previously that has never looked like it was going to happen. When I was a kid there were more formats than you could count: computers (Amiga, Atari ST, PC), console (Mega Drive and SNES), and portables (Game Boy and Game Gear).
More than that too, if you count the minor ones that never took off, and now that the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 won’t go away there’s almost as many again. All with their own individual deals on what’s exclusive for how long. I hate all that. I wish playing video games was like watching a movie or listening to a song. You don’t buy a Blu-ray player and find it can only play Warner Bros. and Sony movies. Games should be the same!
The problem is that for movies they are beginning to get more like games, with dozens of streaming services all with their own exclusives. You can’t just sit down and decide to watch a film without researching online which service it is on and weighing up whether you want to start another subscription just to see one film. I still haven’t seen The Batman and because I don’t really care that much I haven’t done the research and have no idea how I’d even go about it, beyond just buying it on a disc.
This streaming future is something I very much want to avoid for games, especially as Xbox is already pushing for streaming and Sony is no doubt going to do so as well. It’s not just for the sake of convenience, although that is a
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