Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard

[Satoru]

The succession of Ls continue for Xbox

That peter guy is so dumb. It's precisely because Cloud is a "new" market that this is being blocked. Smaller markets tend to provide more opportunities for competition since the entry level is lower, therefore blocking the merger protects the customers from having so much market share under one or a couple of companies.

 

[Nhomnhom]

Basically, the CMA has determined the following:



And then

Was it blocked or not? That's all I care about. Do I have to cancel tonights party and uninvite people?

 

[Vertigo]

There’s nothing more dirty than buying a company that makes most of its money on a rival console just to pretend to make the claim that Xbox runs a succesful video game business.

Get fucked. Evil piece of shit company. They earned all these failures. All of them.

We just witnessed Halo and Xbox die in the same year.

Better off rebranding the system as the Todd Howard Machine.

 

[Old Gamer]

Bob already spoke, they will appeal

MS blackmailed him into selling, so his life out of jail literally depends on the deal. Of course he will appeal.

 

[Satoru]

By the way, I'm actually fully expecting now for the EC to block the merger based on the same rationale as the CMA.

 

[Wraith Phantom]

Great day for gamers. I don't want to see Sony, or Microsoft gobble up major publishers.

Acquire small studios and build from there.

This is banta. They are still getting square thats the funny thing

 

[Satoru]

Was it blocked or not? That's all I care about. Do I have to cancel tonights party and uninvite people?

Yes it was blocked, I just wanted to clarify that it wasn't because of Sony, who focused on the console Market.

 

[FatKaz]

I was hoping CMA would bring back console SLC, but if this makes appeal harder to find possible error good move from the CMA.

 

[John Elden Ring]

By the way, I'm actually fully expecting now for the EC to block the merger based on the same rationale as the CMA.

Pretty sure it's happening at this point

 

[Dabaus]

Genuinely can’t believe it. I’m shocked but in a good way.

 

[AshHunter216]

Basically, the CMA has determined the following:



And then

Sucks that they dropped the console SLC, but anyone saying they were biased towards Sony look EVEN MORE like clowns. This also gives the FTC a huge lifeline as they are no longer alone in opposing the deal and can emphasize this fact in court.

 

[Gediminas]

By the way, I'm actually fully expecting now for the EC to block the merger based on the same rationale as the CMA.

the faster they do it, the better.

 

[Satoru]

Oh this is actually really interesting

Microsoft already accounts for an estimated 60-70% of global cloud gaming services and has other important strengths in cloud gaming from owning Xbox, the leading PC operating system (Windows) and a global cloud computing infrastructure (Azure and Xbox Cloud Gaming).

The deal would reinforce Microsoft’s advantage in the market by giving it control over important gaming content such as Call of Duty, Overwatch, and World of Warcraft. The evidence available to the CMA indicates that, absent the merger, Activision would start providing games via cloud platforms in the foreseeable future.

So Activision was already positioning itself to release games in the Cloud after all. Big oooof

 

[Swift_Star]

Megaton

 

[Nhomnhom]

Another good thing is that they might actually have killed ABK by getting them stuck on this limbo for 2 years with a bunch of people on top that were just waiting to jump ship.

Imagine ABK trying to come to Sony now to negotiate a marketing deal for CoD.

 

[avenovah]

Huh?

 

[Satoru]

@TubzGaming @BloodMod can we perhaps merge this thread with the big acquisition thread?

 

[Nhomnhom]

Now, the question remains, why has MS been talking so much shit about Japan lately? Is it just because Sony is Japanese or is something else going on?

Yes it was blocked, I just wanted to clarify that it wasn't because of Sony, who focused on the console Market.

There is no way to know that. If Sony wasn't there opposing it thing could've gone in a different direction. This is all political, MS chose to make this move at a time where governments want to at least pretend they are putting up a fight.

 

[Yobo]

Watching Xbox sink is like a James Cameron epic

 

[Vertigo]

@TubzGaming @BloodMod can we perhaps merge this thread with the big acquisition thread?

Sticky thread is easy to ignore. As this is current events I think it should hang on main page for a bit before it gets “archived” in the general thread eh?