Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard

[Muddasar]

It's now looking like the CMA may have dropped the console market concerns to make appeals harder to justify.

You ain’t winning a CMA appeal whatever the case.

It’s Game Over.

 

[Aidendelaney95]

Ak well, at least ye tried.

 

[gokuss4]

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This news have broke your souls, iam in gonna have some champagne, life its good

Rule brittania, rule above the waves

 

[FatKaz]

It's making sense why the we got no PR from MS or ABK celebrating early.

 

[One eyed jacks]

"I Don’t Want A New Call Of Duty Deal. I Just Want To Block Your Merger.”​

Ding dong the box is dead!

All hail the return of the King jimbo!

 

[Sircaw]

Dedicated to Phil Aaron, Colt, and Jezz.

 

[Aidendelaney95]

This goes to show you can't trust the Financial Times anymore.

 

[Gediminas]

Dedicated to Phil Aaron, Colt, and Jezz.

 

[On Demand]

 

[Eternal_Wings]

They are keeping attacking the UK. They can’t win this. It’s CMA and FTC vs Microsoft.

 

[Nhomnhom]

Now Sony needs to announce their showcase date today, that would be so cold.



Damn, the UK about to miss on all that Xbox growth.

 

[Sircaw]

They are keeping attacking the UK. They can’t win this. It’s CMA and FTC vs Microsoft.

They are going to try many angles to apply pressure.

Thank God the UK has standards and is looking out for consumers.

 

[Vertigo]

 

[AshHunter216]

They are keeping attacking the UK. They can’t win this. It’s CMA and FTC vs Microsoft.

Closed for business because they didn't like the idea of them bullying their way to the head of the pack?

 

[John Elden Ring]

I can hear the laugh from Jim Ryan from here

 

[AshHunter216]

Now Sony needs to announce their showcase date today, that would be so cold.



Damn, the UK about to miss on all that Xbox growth.

I could see them doing a random tweet about Horizon's "clouds".

 

[Nhomnhom]

 

[Satoru]

No idea what you talking about, I just saying many Xbox fan ain't going to survive this.

Basically, the CMA has determined the following:

In relation to console gaming services, we found that Xbox (Microsoft) and PlayStation (Sony) compete closely with each other, and that Activision’s Call of Duty (CoD) is important to the competitive offering of each. The evidence suggests, however, that Microsoft would not find it financially beneficial to make CoD exclusive to Xbox after the Merger. We also found that making CoD available on Xbox on better terms than on PlayStation would not materially harm PlayStation’s ability to compete. On this basis, we found that the Merger would not substantially reduce competition in console gaming services in the UK.

And then

We compared the RCBs that would be foregone from prohibition to the harm that would arise from the SLC. We believe the likely future growth, competitive dynamism and innovation in the cloud gaming market that would be substantially reduced as a result of the Merger would lead to a significantly greater level of harm to UK consumers than any RCBs foregone. We also considered other factors such as the broader international context and extra- territorial impact of prohibition, but we found no effective remedy that would address the SLC in the UK without having an impact outside of the UK. Furthermore, given our SLC finding and the absence of an alternative effective remedy, we consider that prohibition is not disproportionate in order to protect competition and consumers in the UK.

On this basis, the CMA has decided to prohibit the Merger.

 

[John Elden Ring]

Bob already spoke, they will appeal

 

[SLB1904]

Lmfao. Somebody hold me