Microsoft and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) of the United Kingdom have been trading punches over Activision and everybody’s (!) got questions.
Let’s go through…everything.
#Microsoft #Xbox #Activision
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
40:59 The CMA’s Official Phase I Report
4:27:43 The Microsoft Response
6:23:07 Question Time and Conclusion
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I always enjoyed when Rekieta went through court filings like this. Sure it can be dry when you read them yourself, but having educated commentary going along with it makes it much more interesting. Thanks for doing this!
Impressive video/stream!
To me, in this the CMA comes across as a mixture of overreaching, and either incompetent or biased, and I'm not sure which. Their position seems based on a whole lot of conjectures and omitting whatever does not support said position (i.e: Nintendo).
1.5x speed is certainly helpful on this one peeps! Thanks for deep diving into these docs, I literally get all my news about this deal from your videos and I anticipate every new chapter! I’m conflicted as an Xbox guy on whether I want this to close because we’ll lose such great Hoeg sassiness 🤣🤣🤣
Not fully through watching the video, but thank you for your work on this. It is definitely a lot lol.
This was pretty awesome! Thank you! Nerds everywhere rejoice!
I hope the deal goes through as a huge PlayStation fan. I don’t want Microsoft to try and buy some of the studios I actually like. Don’t really care if they buy Activision since I don’t play those games anyway
That echo the dolphin joke… that one is great.
Nothing stop activision from having a gp service. but EA play exist and is in no way as popular as GP, even more, GP ultimate includes ea play because EA can add value to a service but is clearly not enough on his own for EA. in a world where microsoft has Acti Bliz + Ea play on its service, which already popular shooter series microsoft dont have beside destiny 2. just some more food for thoughts.
It is 100% clear that CMA are Sony Ponies…. there is no doubt about this that they are fans of PS and have conflict of interest.
CMA is clearly lying, how can Game Pass have 60-70% of marketshare with 25M users when Sonys service has 65M users?
Started today watching the Brooks trial. I was quickly slamming my head against the desk then switched to you. It was definitely the right choice. F'ing great stream.
Can somebody please do timestamps?
What a crazy show, thanks so much for all this information and analysis, we are lucky to have you in the gaming community.
Ok, I'm half-way through. This is sounding more and more like a future Netflix movie. Good stuff Hoeg.
My favorite part of this whole video is when Hoeg says “Snip!” 😂
You mentioned preventing mergers like this could hurt the startup strategy to get acquired. I disagree as both corporations are insanely large and Activision was only looking to be acquired to maintain Bobby’s investment. While I think the merger is safe to go through, there isn’t a lot of value to consumers for industry giants to merge and I am one to to believe that companies should never get as big as they have gotten already.
Someone should clip Hoeg's snips.
It would be enjoyable.
Hoeg do something. Make this deal go through. I want game pass to win as fuk 70$ games lol
The CMA are asking for input from the public now 😅.
Here’s your chance Rich
Almost 7 hours?? YOU MADMAN!
They should of said we never taken any existent gaming IP from any rival console
Very informative, had to watch in 3 parts during the day but well but worth it, thanks!
THAT'S COMPETITION, BABY!
MS got numbers from Sony, they have 65M subscribers to their service as they “forced” all users to it’s GP competitor in June/July
FYI Sony states on multiple places that PS+ is GP competitor regardless of how good/bad you perceive the comparison they are positioning it that way and everyone is comparing em… Sony fans even go out of their way to claim that it is way better than GP…. If it counts as advertisement why wouldn’t it count when it comes to regulation?
Remember the MS antitrust fines etc were by EU for not putting rival Browser into Windows, MS is saying that Sony is sutting GP out in same manner
@hoeglaw Question is does UK need MS more or MS need UK market? Would CMA risk losing windows for the whole country including entire government?