This is the inevitable conclusion to free-market based economies. The market will pick winners, and those winners will then have a capital advantage over all new entrants, allowing them to outcompete anyone they want, and to use their size to control the market at large. It’s literally built into the system. The attempts at reform we try are rolled back eventually, and we end up in the same place again. Ma Bell broke up, and for a while we had competition across the industry and innovation. Eventually, market leaders were picked, and we end up where we are now, with few options, and little difference between the ones we have.

Oligopoly, not monopoly. Monopoly implies there's just 1 company. In gaming there is far from one company.

This monopoly stuff has to end.

Microsoft aren't a monopoly, especially in gaming. Even buying ABK they won't be even remotely close to a monopoly.

What did Microsoft do with Bethesda?

MS isn't even top 2 in a hardware market of 3. They're not even top 4 in publishers either. Hardly a monopoly.