Why do they pretend Blizzard ain't part of ABK? Overwatch, Diablo and Warcraft are massive.
Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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I'm surprised that the judge understood the absurdity of paid online so quickly.
As in, the CMA made the right choice all along?
They seem to think you need a separate subscription for online play on PS5 and Xbox, when it's included in every tier of PS+ but not Game Pass?
Oh? It seems like the tone changed completely since they have started talking about Cloud. This could potentially maybe sway the judge.
Was a bit like the precursor to PS Home.... magical place.
Did you have a friend named Tom?
Noticed that too. Cloud was always going to be the stronger of the two arguments. The console arguments should've tied in cloud more in terms of MS's advantages in leveraging cloud SLC of gaming assets through Azure and their various services as well as middleware ownerships.
Of course. Sony is the market leader and console foreclose would never fly, but cloud? Yeah it does.
No consumer is entitled to have the exact piece of content they want, but MS is entitled to buy whoever they want.
"No consumer is entitled to the one piece of content they want"
Well ms lawyer, that piece of content is already available on my preferred platform, so I guess I am entitled to that content
Well ms lawyer, that piece of content is already available on my preferred platform, so I guess I am entitled to that content
"the THOR game"...
She seems to think all companies can wipe their asses with 200+ million just because Microsoft can.
That's one of the frustrating parts. MS can enabled long-term loss-leading strategies in gaming because gaming constitutes at best 10% of their annual revenue and less than 10% of their annual net profits. It means nothing to them as a wider corporation.
That simply isn't the case for smaller competitors like Sony or Nintendo.
This is what is fucked up about allowing a company this size to exist. They can pretty much take over any market that is "small" to them and that is pretty much every market where they are not fighting Google, Amazon or Apple directly.
So, good arguments on the cloud and GP, bad on the console, is what I got from the closing.
Wait, you mean you can't?
Might want to try and catch some of my downstream waste brosef.