Microsoft’s mega-deal worries small video game makers
Indie games developers are nervous they will be squeezed out if the big firms’ dominance grows. …
Microsoft insists it will continue to cater for small, independent developers. But some of those developers are deeply concerned, for instance, that if the Microsoft-owned, Game Pass subscription service, increasingly becomes the only means through which many people access games, small studios could be left competing for funding and promotion via that platform.