[Microsoft is] a tech giant with a long history of dominating industries," Ryan told
the NYTimes. "It is highly likely that the choices gamers have today will disappear if this deal goes ahead."
I mean it's not like Jim is pulling this out of his ass:
Microsoft loses yet another fortune that would have bankrupted any other business during the Xbox One era but Microsoft is a tech giant and has plenty of money to burn. Influencers brag about the Microsoft war chest often enough that it becomes a meme.
Microsoft creates GamePass. This service is so funded by Microsoft that they basically gave out (and still give out) years of service for almost free. They also put first party games that in the past were $50+ into the service day one for free as well. One could also argue that Sony got a lot of bad publicity when they would not allow the same kind of stacking that Microsoft allowed.
Microsoft then brokers one of the largest publisher acquisitions in gaming history to acquire games that traditionally have been available on multiple platforms and immediately announce that future titles will be Xbox only.
After that, Microsoft brokers an even larger acquisition for one of the biggest publishers of games in the world. It is obvious that they are using their money and power as a tech giant to try and buy their way to dominance.
Microsoft can point fingers at other players in the space, but none of those players are spending close to $100 billion dollars in a few years in order to acquire publishers that have multiple popular studios under their wing.
I mean you can nitpick these things but this is basically what has been happening.