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But what about Apple buying Nintendo?

 

[Team Andromeda]

The deal will go through mate. Cloud gaming means you don't need expensive console's and SONY games aren't cheaper
MS lawyers will have a field day.

IF I was MS I'll just buy SEGA and be done with it

 

[Dane]

 

[gothmog]

We really got people praying MS goes through with it and pay 69B for AB without COD on the ticket just so they give them a couple more games on gamepass. It’s amazing.

There's some pretty wild takes. Microsoft should just announce it's done so these people can properly mourn a trillion dollar company's deal not going through.

 

[Sony]

He chose to draw attention to select comments that, in isolation, appear to show Microsoft in a stronger position than they really are with this deal. Those comments he left out provided crucial context of the CMAs message.

If that is the reason you chose to shit on Idas, then you do you. He chose to highlight those points because CMA not being open to behavioral remedies was expected and the bigger news is that they are somehow open to it.

 

[Aguero9320]

I see MS response is that 10 years of COD should do it. I don’t see how that would address the CMAs concerns at all. The language doesn’t seem to match.

But we’ll see.

I didn’t interpret it that way - the fact that they called out ‘existing or potential’ commitments that don’t appear to be there suggests to me they think that would be good enough if they were completed. Existing is Nintendo, because it’s agreed. Potential is Sony which doesn’t exist because Sony didn’t agree to it. At least how I read it.

But I suspect technically that Microsoft filing an enforceable 10 year commitment doesn’t need Sony to agree to anything, if the CMA agrees it’s fair and provides time needed for cloud to mature, then they may consider it an acceptable remedy. Could also explain Kotick’s ‘won’t take our calls comment’ because they were trying to get that done.

Lot of runway left here.

 

[Topher]

Maybe if they offer to sell Call of Duty to Sony....

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Even if the deal isn't dead it seems like the UK won't let MS keep COD, which is a win to me.

 

[Punished Miku]

http://[URL]https://www.reuters.com...or-better-understand-our-industry-2023-02-08/

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Man, that's rough. Literally first thing I said when I heard their provisional finding is that they seem like they don't know the first thing about the industry currently. I can't imagine Activision would say something like that unless they were just dumbfounded at some of the claims.

 

[leo-j]

I like the idea of sellling them off in pieces, they keep COD as the main publisher and the other franchises get sold to different publishers.

 

[Topher]

Man, that's rough. Literally first thing I said when I heard their provisional finding is that they seem like they don't know the first thing about the industry currently. I can't imagine Activision would say something like that unless they were just dumbfounded at some of the claims.

That was going to be their response to anything other than "approved".

 

[Badlucktroll]

Sony seeing their defence going according to the plan while thinking about what they can acquire next

Konami Digital Entertainment so we can get AAA games based on those IPs

 

[DenchDeckard]

I think it's game over, nothing to see here...move on!

Right, let's get back to gaming and get some good games out.

 

[k_trout]

boooo consolidation
decentralisation ftw

 

[Interfectum]

 

[Jerm411]

How I feel reading comments from the likes of Jez Cordon and team Green across the internet today.

Jez is in absolute shambles….you hate to see it lol….

 

[GhostOfTsu]

But Lina Khan is an ideologue

Jim Ryan right now:

 

[Varteras]

Jez is in absolute shambles….you hate to see it lol….

But do I? Do I really?

 

[BlvckFox]

Deal or no deal, Microsoft will be just fine. These Jez bozos with their doom and gloom need to relax.

Microsoft has more than enough studios to crank out games and compete.

 

[Banjo64]

The deal will go through mate. Cloud gaming means you don't need expensive console's and SONY games aren't cheaper
MS lawyers will have a field day.

IF I was MS I'll just buy SEGA and be done with it

Their lawyers won’t have a field day in the UK.

 

[Thirty7ven]

People dumbfounded that COD is this important and trying to claim CMA doesn’t understand the market might just as well come out and say they are retards.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Fuck Megahard thinking they can just buy the whole company just to deny Call of Duty from Playstation. This is the right outcome for gaming.

 

[DForce]

Not sure Sony gets to ‘accept’ anything here.

It's very likely that they're fully aware Microsoft offered a 10-year deal to Sony and that wasn't enough.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

I have a returned from the front lines with victory my brothers.

 

[ByWatterson]

It's dead.

The language is so strong that only a consent decree going into perpetuity would satisfy them.

Would Microsoft sign one?

 

[reksveks]

Maybe if they offer to sell Call of Duty to Sony....

MS and ABK off to find some Saudi Prince

P.s. I am joking, back to work.

 

[drganon]

The deal will go through mate. Cloud gaming means you don't need expensive console's and SONY games aren't cheaper
MS lawyers will have a field day.

IF I was MS I'll just buy SEGA and be done with it

First stage : Denial

 

[mansoor1980]

a man of PRINCIPLE

 

[Lyrical]

a man of PRINCIPLE

Is this a real quote?

 

[gothmog]

Telling the regulators that they need to be educated is going to go over about as well as telling a cop you pay their salary when they pull you over.

 

[mansoor1980]

Is this a real quote?

yes , for once he was not lyin ryan

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

It's dead as Dead as it gets.

Nah long way to go still. Lots of options for MS including court.

 

[Topher]

Is this a real quote?

Yes

 

[NonPhixion]

First stage : Denial

Hahha I was just gonna say how funny it is to visibly see some people in this thread start the 5 stages of grief.

 

[Ar¢tos]

10 years should be enough for Sony to make a real multi platform CoD competitor with Bungie, now that London Studios are making the next Playstation exclusive "Destiny".

 

[Aguero9320]

It's very likely that they're fully aware Microsoft offered a 10-year deal to Sony and that wasn't enough.

Impossible that they aren't aware of that. Also not at all relevant.

Sony doesn't get to decide what is an acceptable remedy - that would be a horrible precedent. Completely unethical.

 

[mrmustard]

yes , for once he was not lyin ryan

Thought they offered 10 years.

Edit: Yes, it was 10: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/5/23494886/microsoft-sony-10-year-call-of-duty-deal

 

[feynoob]

Are you kidding me right now?

The last big Xbox show last June all i could read was "Console Launch Exclusive" including the fact Xbox has a 2 day embargo for all multiplatform announcements in there, meaning publishers could only mention other platforms for the 3rd party announcements 2 or 3 days after their big show to try and appear they had even more exclusives then they actually did.

This was talked about here and everything. Not even Sony ever pulled this shit before.

MS are just bad at choosing their partnerships...which is why they are desperate to find their own Genshin Impact. But clearly they still do with stuff like High On Life. They just don't go "viral" the same way Stray or Fall Guys do for Sony.

None of their timed exclusive are at the level of ff16 and f7 remake.
So imagine all big 3rd party games at level getting picked apart by both companies.
It's not good for us consumers.

 

[Benniewise de Clown]

Jez claiming XBOX will leave gaming because they didn't get their way is the definition of buffoonery.

Why? The signs are there anyway, regardless of the AB-deal.

 

[Alx]

I'm having a hard time understanding how that acquisition could "damage the competition" when it's actually evening it out. Sony currently has the stronger marketshare and better IPs, it's not like that will be threatened overnight. I'm not even sure what they mean by "lower the competition", does it suggest that if both competitors are better armed, they will fight less for their marketshare ?

 

[GHG]

http://[URL]https://www.reuters.com...or-better-understand-our-industry-2023-02-08/

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What they going to do? Send Lulu in tandem with WAT man on a trip to the UK?

 

[Heisenberg007]

a man of PRINCIPLE

Jim Ryan, the GOAT, First of His Name, King of the Gaming Markets, Protector of PlayStation Gamers, Father of Exclusivity Deals, and the Breaker of Acquisitions.

 

[Andodalf]

lmfao at people in this thread thinking the deal is bead because there’s no way Ms can remedy the issue of people Needing to buy a console to play could games.


When that’s a main argument against a deal, the deal is happening

 

[Coulomb_Barrier]

The meltdown in Era is really fun to read lol.

If ever you wanted confirmation that REE has a pitiful lack of integrity (so-called socialist/leftish forum thoroughly on the side of capitalism/Big Tech), or that all the Xbox fanboys sheltered there after the Neogaf split, read that fucking acquisition thread.

The admins/mods there are c*nts for letting all that carry on. In fact they foster it. I suppose we knew this when the news came out that the spineless owner sold the site at the first opportunity. Ethics and morality and what you stand for apparently flung out the window for a wad of cash.

 

[Interfectum]

I'm having a hard time understanding how that acquisition could "damage the competition" when it's actually evening it out. Sony currently has the stronger marketshare and better IPs, it's not like that will be threatened overnight. I'm not even sure what they mean by "lower the competition", does it suggest that if both competitors are better armed, they will fight less for their marketshare ?

Buying a publisher with a market cap of $70 billion is not "evening it out."

 

[mansoor1980]

Thought they offered 10 years.

based on the original deal it was 3 years i think
jim ryan was not satisfied

 

[MasterCornholio]

If I'm understanding it correctly. It can still happen but some serious concessions must be made.

 

[N30RYU]

Tbh I want this to go through, since I don't care about CoD, and force sony to revive socom and killzone

 

[mrmustard]

based on the original deal it was 3 years i think
jim ryan was not satisfied

Looked it up, they offered 10 years in December so that pic is probably older than that.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Thought they offered 10 years.

Edit: Yes, it was 10: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/5/23494886/microsoft-sony-10-year-call-of-duty-deal

At that point when Jim made that statement, it was only 3 years. Phil said "for several years" in public statement. Jim clarified that it was only 3 years, which was inadequate.

Jim shared no comments publicly before or after that -- which also means no comments from him after MS offered the 10-year deal.