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TL;DR - Microsoft is fighting for their purchase of Activision-Blizzard to go through. Their latest argument is that they’re in third in the console wars (behind the PS5 and the Switch) and Sony will likely make more money from the PS5 Slim which they claim is releasing later this year at $399.

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Well the main reason to block the purchase would be to prevent a monopoly so their point is that they’re far behind so the purchase will put them more on par. I don’t know if I buy that logic but that’s what they’re trying to say.

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Why is Microsoft announcing this and not Sony? I’m skeptical

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They didn’t quite “announce” it as much as they used it as argument or evidence in court and the document was leaked or released to the public.

How they knew beforehand? I have no idea. But it’d be a risky move to just make shit up like that in court, so it’s pretty likely true.

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Everything what Microsoft thinks and does is under fire due to Activision merger injunction lawsuit by FTC.

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Yes, I understand that, but how does the Microsoft/Activision merger have anything to do with Sony?

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@vita_man @Jongaros Sony is fighting against the merger based on the possibility of Microsoft taking acitvision titles (such as Call of Duty) off of PlayStation and making them Microsoft exclusives. Sony arguing that a software monopoly is possible and would hurt their hardware sales.

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Part of being sued in court is a process called “discovery” where a whole host of internal documents are disclosed to the opposing side.

It wouldn’t surprise me, as part of the merger lawsuit, that a bunch of internal plans were revealed to both sides.

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They said they expect it to happen. That’s different from Sony saying it’s gonna happen.

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I’ve enjoyed the PS5, but it really is ridiculously big. I’m imagining the “slim” will still be as big as a normal PS4

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Yeah, but I just hope that it comes with a new (and improved) form-factor. Right now, with the size of the regular PS5 and it being shaped absolutely weird, I couldn’t put it anywhere. Whereas with the PS4 you could build a tower with them albeit it would lean backwards at some point lol.

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As someone who finally got a PS5 last November, im fine with a slim model coming out as long as it’s not more powerful than the OG lol

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Funnily enough, the only reason I found this is I said when the PS5 released that it was too big and I’d wait for a slim version. But within the past few months I got impatient, thinking maybe it’d never come out. So this was like my final try to see if there was any news about it maybe coming and I found this article lol

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Is this even posible? I mean most of the bulk on the PS5 is ce CPU cooler, has the technology evolved enough in this past 3 years for an smaller cooler to work?

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Yes

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