The relationship is a two way. They both depend heavily on each other.
Microsoft / Activision Deal Leaves Sony Stans in Shambles | M$ Wins Fight Against FTC
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Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Yeah, and if I’m in Sony’s position i also renegotiate that profit split that favored Activision before.
Dorian Breh
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It says "including BYOG services" so not exclusively. It's talking about presumably Sony, Nintendo, and any other platforms where you might've been able to purchase Activision games. This deal would not be a "remedy" at all to Sony and any other store fronts that would be selling games e.g. Nintendo since there are Switch games purchasable to play through the cloud e.g. Kingdom Hearts 3, Control, RE3 etc.
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the partner that generates over half of their sales for CoD is only dependent on them.
I see why Phil keeps lying to Xbots and they like
So y’all think NVIDIA and all these other streaming services that signed the deal are dumb??
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They have nothing, they want crumbs to live.
how is it "including BYOG services" when it's not relevant to their business model?
Khalil's_Black_Excellence
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Maybe. But also, just maybe the CMA knows more than coli clowns like ya'll do.Or maybe you goofballs just don’t know what you are talking about
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Nope CMA are wrong, they don’t know what they’re doing. Refer to Hoeg Law’s youtube channel if you really want to know why they’re being this way
CMA has gotten plenty of shyt wrong, including seemingly this point.
Streaming services like nvidia never take a cut from game sales because they don’t sell the games. They just offer computational power in the cloud.
Also microsoft allows individual monetizaion on their store. Whereas apple, sony, and most other stores take a cut of everything a game sold on their store makes. Microsoft allows devs to collect their own money within a game that they don’t get a cut of.
This is a case of sony stan’s taking a piece of the puzzle out of context and running with the “bad microsoft” narrative without actual understanding what you guys are reacting to
I'm of the belief that the CMA always was inclined to strike this down and were looking for the justification to do so. They put forth reasons that were laughable for the most part and even they had to go back on them. They then leaned into the cloud to do what they wanted to do.
The cloud is 2% of the gaming market. For them to say maybe one day this could be big and if it is big we feel it wall make Microsoft x Activision too powerful is absurd. That's speculative fiction. Cloud gaming has been around a while and while theoretically it could be huge that's all guessing. The fact that they have to speculate about what future market conditions in a space might be and admit they aren't certain of that and use it as evidence to block this merger is dumb.
The cloud is 2% of the gaming market. For them to say maybe one day this could be big and if it is big we feel it wall make Microsoft x Activision too powerful is absurd. That's speculative fiction. Cloud gaming has been around a while and while theoretically it could be huge that's all guessing. The fact that they have to speculate about what future market conditions in a space might be and admit they aren't certain of that and use it as evidence to block this merger is dumb.