Funny because now Activision games are no longer guaranteed on these cloud services . Microsoft had long term deals in place with a ton of them which gives ample enough time to grow their own services

Consumers don’t benefit from this in any form or fashion

Cause there is a competitive market WHICH IS ALSO AVAILABLE FOR FREE (nvidia) which microsoft already signed deals with. also playstation has their own cloud gaming service

Cloud gaming is a 180 billion dollar industry

microsoft quarterly reports which released just yesterday show they are just 1.72 billion of that market

amazing!

this is so dumb

Tbh the decision is based, these big mergers and acquisitions are peak capitalism, but if the only reasoning they found to block the deal was the possibility in a distant future of ms dominating the cloud gaming market thats very funny

You're right tbh. The decision actually has nothing to do with cloud gaming - we all know that

I'm curious how the appeal will go + how Activision's relationship with Sony will continue

Activision/blizzard devs lost

reuters.com/legal/us-judge-cites-impact-top-selling-authors-blocking-book-merger-2022-11-07

This was the funniest iteration of antitrust laws to me

Edit: "MicroVision blocked over impact on gamers" would have been a sensational headline

I hope Microsoft doesn't use that money to acquire a company I actually give a f*** about now though

They're appealing it and will try again dw

No one likes cloud gaming! It will always be better to buy a disc lol

cloud gaming sucks

i just wanna play games for free come on

the uk is the worst nobody likes you

“ In relation to cloud gaming services, we found that Microsoft already has a strong position. It owns a popular gaming platform (Xbox and a large portfolio of games), the leading PC operating system (Windows), and a global cloud computing infrastructure (Azure and Xbox Cloud Gaming), giving it important advantages in running a cloud gaming service. With an estimated 60-70% market share in global cloud gaming services, it is already much stronger than its rivals.”

Directly from the CMA report… they are already 60-70% of the market share

Ain’t no way ur going to bat for a corporate entity

Nvidia Geforce Now (free)
Playstation Plus Premium
Shadow
Amazon luna (free with prime)
Playkey
Paperspace
Blacknut
NetBoom
Boosteroid
Xcloud

They really concerned about this s***

They falsely including all gamepass ultimate members as users of the cloud. This is horrible horrible stuff

hope playstation gets blocked buying every company

This deal would have put call of duty on the nintendo switch

Call of Duty Switch Gameplay:

would have been a cult classic just like those DS versions

I hope every corporate conglomerate stops buying up studios and trying to turn gaming into an endless subscription service

real

sony the worst at it

but yes i agree