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This guy said that Xbox One (Gen 8) would gain 8.9% in the market over the PS4 in the entire Generation 8 if CoD was exclusive to Xbox. Bare in mind, PS4 had 70% market share and Xbox One had 30% market share worldwide. So basically Xbox One would have 38.9% market share and PS4 would have 61.1%...

So can someone explain to me how is that anti-competitive when PS4 is STILL holding the majority market share. 😂
 

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This guy said that Xbox One (Gen 8) would gain 8.9% in the market over the PS4 in the entire Generation 8 if CoD was exclusive to Xbox. Bare in mind, PS4 had 70% market share and Xbox One had 30% market share worldwide. So basically Xbox One would have 38.9% market share and PS4 would have 61.1%...

So can someone explain to me how is that anti-competitive when PS4 is STILL holding the majority market share. 😂
Is he talking about global marketshare though?
 
Did he really?

I'm not listening in, but if he did really say cod isn't essential then that won't hold much water if it's not very familiar with it, or maybe he just knows the numbers.
I am 90% sure he said it. (audio streaming is not good)

It is not even able to give detrminated figures of the effects of making COD exclusive....
I think he said that around 8-9% of COD users on PS4 would switch to XBO?? It doesn't even have figures regarding PS5 vs XSeries?. :messenger_neutral:
 
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Find & Replace McVeigh... Robin Lee...
 
Am I the only one that thinks the judge will block the deal? All these going back and forth just proves Phil Spencer holds all the power and he can do whatever he wants once the deal is thru.
 
Market is certainly reacting like this is all good for MS, but I still think the CMA is going to block the deal.

I wouldn't gamble by throwing cash at ATVI
 
Am I the only one that thinks the judge will block the deal? All these going back and forth just proves Phil Spencer holds all the power and he can do whatever he wants once the deal is thru.
I think if he's a funny judge, he'd do it. but a serious judge idk. could go either way really.
 
hope they grill him good and make him cry

At the very least we're guaranteed to get some stuttering 😉

ok fuck it, someone please share the YT link here, the ftc Zoom call is full capacity.

No YT link, but Kick has it. Check tmlDan tmlDan 's post.

That was gonna be way too late for me anyway. Keep the notes for me please! 👍

Gonna try my best. Got recording software, if I can record just the audio I might record his testimony if a stream is still going (or a spot in the Zoom call is open).
 
This guy said that Xbox One (Gen 8) would gain 8.9% in the market over the PS4 in the entire Generation 8 if CoD was exclusive to Xbox. Bare in mind, PS4 had 70% market share and Xbox One had 30% market share worldwide. So basically Xbox One would have 38.9% market share and PS4 would have 61.1%...

So can someone explain to me how is that anti-competitive when PS4 is STILL holding the majority market share. 😂
This is about the USA, not global - this is the FTC. Jim said they have 55% in gen 9 so MS has 45%.
 
That's the one talking yes, the professor from somewhere and he's getting grilled by Microsoft lawyers.

Yeah, I just started listening a few minutes in and it already sounds like his voice is cracking and he's nervous as fuck. The lawyer is grilling him good.
 
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Ahh, my bad.

So basically it's still not anti-competitive. Lol
It's hard to say, he built his data off of Gen 8, so last gen.

Right now they're trying to say that he didn't do a model off of partial-foreclosure just full foreclosure.

He's pretty much useless at this point, other than proving that there could be a potentially large shift in market share
 
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The market also reacted positively for MS when the CMA blocked it. The market doesn't want this to happen
I'm talking about ATVI stock. Which is intrinsically tied to this deal and the price MS is willing to pay, until it is fully thrown out.

If the deal goes through you instantly make money.

MS's stock is pretty far removed from this as it's just a blip on their 2+ trillion dollar radar. The CMA blocking ATVI had nothing to do with MS's stock, that was their insane earnings. But even if it did, that isn't what I'm talking about.
 
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