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Monopolies suck.
What monopoly? Xbox holds the smallest share of the console market.
Ah, carry on then. The highest valued company who just bought the biggest third party publisher isn't anything to worry about because their Xbox is doing somewhat poorly.
They're the 3rd largest video game company and the current highest valued company (by market cap, so yeah not a perfect metric) in the world.
They became that big of a video game company by using their ridiculous amount of money to buy up a bunch of other game companies, reducing the competition but hoarding the IP. While they might not be the "only" company in town I think it is safe to say that they're doing the most buying and consolidating