The EU approves Microsoft's $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard takeover
In response to the EU's decision, the CMAits claim that Microsoft would still have too much power in the cloud gaming space."Microsoft’s proposals, accepted by the European Commission today, would allow Microsoft to set the terms and conditions for this market for the next 10 years," the CMA.
Microsoft’s proposals, accepted by the European Commission today, would allow Microsoft to set the terms and conditions for this market for the next 10 years.On the console side of the equation, the EU has determined that"Microsoft would have no incentive to refuse to distribute Activision's games to Sony." It noted that Sony is the world's biggest distributor of console games and that in the European Economic Area , there are four PlayStations for every Xbox sold.
Even so, were Microsoft to pull Activision titles from Sony platforms,"this would not significantly harm competition in the consoles market," according to the EU."Even if Call of Duty is largely played on console, it is less popular in the EEA than in other regions of the world, and is less popular in the EEA within its genre compared to other markets," the bloc said.
Much of the discourse related to the acquisition has centered on Call of Duty and how eager Sony was to stop Microsoft from making that series exclusive to its platforms (something Microsoft says
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