Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard Discussion Thread |OT3| - Sony bends the knee!

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@nursegamer20

…ate increment to Microsoft’s strength may be expected to substantially reduce competition in this developing market, to the detriment of current and future cloud gaming users.” This is why Microsoft is fighting for this, as this would literally kill the growth of their Xbox platform, and if they have to purchase a studio, it has to be at or below 70 million pounds to avoid regulatory investigations. Studios below these prices tend to not have valuable IP’s, and are usually smaller studios. This unacceptable, I get regulating big tech in things like data collection, or dangerous aspects of AI, or Social media, gatekeeping, price manipulation etc. But essentially stopping them from diversifying their perfolio, and"preventing" them from growing, this needs to be looked at by our own government.

This is also why I’m not entirely sure that there is any future at this point in time where a big US company should continue doing business in the UK. There is a clear, demonstrated prejudice to big foreign companies (mostly US) and combative nature where they are willing to go to ANY lengths to harm those companies. If you look at the fines sent out the past 5 years by the CMA, over 99.5% of the fines have been aimed at US companies. Thats a trade war.