While it would be very funny to see Sony get a worse deal, Microsoft is very likely to offer the same deal to Sony anyways because they are not dumb and want to acquire more studios and publishers and know anything they do will be scrutinized in the future.
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Agreed. As long as CoD is multi, MS can buy others with relative impunity for the next 10 yearsā¦after thatā¦well who knows?
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Told ya. You canāt publish a report that ultimately concludes as āthe dominant market player could at worst lose 3% of its userbase in the aftermath of this acquisitionā and classify it as significant lessening of competition.
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news from last month or so. they were asked to provide 3rd party deals docs from last 4 years to the FTC judge and we barely had any peep about it.
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But why offer a deal? Do you think Take 2 has a 10 year deal to release nba2k on Xbox or Playstation? No, they just release it every year because it makes sense for T2 to do so.
Microsoft is definitely going to be announcing some more cloud deals. Its almost done, just seal it.
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Woke up too late but was literally about to post thisā¦ canāt wait to hear how itās not positive from the usual suspects.
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Ladies and gentlemenā¦ it IS happening.
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Because they said they would offer it and they would be scrutinized in the future if they pull it.
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Sure, CoD will still release on PS but I now fully expect ads and perks on the Xbox side, as well as Game Pass release, as it has to be.
The first reason is optics and all the regulatory advantages for future filings they gain by getting Sony to sign. The second is to close this deal. The FTC concern is based so much on console and cloud. A judge that looks at this acquisition and sees 10 year deals in place with all the console leaders and cloud leaders is just going to laugh at the FTC. All about cloaing this deal and setting themselves up well for the future deals.
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They can continue releasing COD games on Playstation without any long-term deals with Sony. The plan for COD was to be in the same category as Minecraft. The 10 year deals were being offered only to appease regulators and now that the EU and UK both concluded it wouldnāt impact the console market (to a signinficant degree), thereās no need to sign any deal with Sony.
Weāll never know but I guess whatever deal was on the table for Sony is now gone. I think they would have had an offer of favourable terms that didnāt interfere with the offer to Nintendo etc. Theyāll get the game same as everyone else but their leverage has gone.
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Please just let this end already.
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No. The Cloud SLC remains and still will need to be addressed via a remedy the CMA can agree to.
In reality it hasnāt actually changed the likelihood of the deal passing or not - thatās the same as it was last week.
What it might do is point to the chances being better than some thought but that could be a bit erroneous because the CMA still need to accept behavioural remediesā¦
FTC will get laughed out of court either way. My bet is Microsoft and ABK close the deal in June and FTC does not file injunction and drops the internal court proceedings.
Microsoft fully intends to release COD on Playstation in perpetuity, but thereās no reason to sign a long-term deal with Sony and potentially open themselves up to suits for the most petty of things like āyou could have utilized our controller features betterā or āthat bug on the last level was there for nefarious reasonsā or āyour game is running better on your console, better hardware should not be an excuse, parity clause brokenā etc.
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Lol you are much more pessimistic than I am. Nothing changed? Crazy talk
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