Microsoft v. the CMA starts on July 24th.
The difference between a standalone cloud gaming market and an add-on service looks like it will form part of the main argument between Microsoft and the CMA during the appeals process.
In total, Microsoft has identified five grounds of appeal, including one where it alleges the CMA has failed to properly consider theit signed with competitors in the weeks leading up to the CMA’s decision. The CMA also found that Activision would have been likely to make its gaming content available on cloud gaming services regardless of Microsoft’s proposed acquisition, a belief that Microsoft calls “irrational.
Microsoft had been pushing for a four-day hearing starting the week commencing July 17th, but during an initial case management conference today, Justice Marcus Smith penciled in the two weeks of July 24th and July 31st for the appeal in a six-day process in total. The CMA had been seeking to push the hearing to the fall, arguing that it needed the time to prepare a defense of its decision.
With Microsoft’s appeal process commencing in the UK over the summer months, attention will also turn closer to home. The
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