Just as it said it would, Microsoft has appealed the CMA's decision to block its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, an…
That appeal will require Microsoft to present its case to the the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal, and a summary of its arguments is. These outline five key grounds on which Microsoft challenges the decision, starting with its claim the CMA made"fundamental errors in its assessment of [Microsoft's] current position in cloud gaming services by failing to take account of constraints from native gaming" .
It also claims the CMA"erred in failing to take proper account of three long-term commercial agreements [Microsoft] entered into with cloud gaming providers", calls the CMA's conclusion that Activision would have made its games available on cloud gaming services without the merger both"irrational and arrived at in a procedurally unfair manner", and argues the CMA's findings Microsoft"would have the ability and incentive to foreclose rival cloud gaming services...
Finally, Microsoft insists the CMA"erred in law by proceeding on the basis that it had a duty to impose what it described as a comprehensive remedy","unlawfully failed to take account of the interests of comity","erred in rejecting the Microsoft Cloud Remedy, and"acted in breach of [Microsoft's] common law duty of fairness and the CMA's own remedies guidance.
Appealing the CMA's decision will likely be a lengthy process for Microsoft and Activision; the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal says it aims to deal with straightforward cases within nine months, and, if the appeal is successful, it will still need to go back though the CMA for review.
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