“Provisional findings are a key aspect of the merger process and are explicitly designed to give the businesses involved, and any interested third parties, the chance to respond with new evidence before we make a final decision,” said Martin Coleman, chair of the independent panel conducting this CMA’s investigation.
“Having considered the additional evidence provided, we have now provisionally concluded that the merger will not result in a substantial lessening of competition in console gaming services because the cost to Microsoft of withholding Call of Duty from PlayStation would outweigh any gains from taking such action.
“Our provisional view that this deal raises concerns in the cloud gaming market is not affected by today’s announcement. Our investigation remains on course for completion by the end of April.”
Hopefully this deal leads to older cod titles getting price cuts on steam
Honestly Microsoft needs this stuff 😂 I would feel bad for them if they had no weapons in the war against Sony
You sound mad yo. Bungie not going for that!!!!! They already told Sony they want to keep their games on xbox. MLB told Sony to put games on xbox. Xbox not done Sony gamers will lose more games. That's why you need to own both systems. To play the best both have to offer.
Money can do anything!!
How much did Microsoft pay them? I'd guess a few million.
In the meantime, it will probably increase the number of xbox players who wont buy 3rd party content with more expectation that everything should be in gamepass. Probably will lead to more time exclusives and continued bitching when other games sell 500 copies on xbox
Sony PlayStation hermenhulst cancel all Bungie Xbox ports Time to show NO MERCY to Xbox going forward Aquire Ubisoft SquareEnix Konami and keep everything 100% permanent exclusive to Playstation Target pathetic Xbox and their gamers with war advertising campaign
You Can Not By Success. It Is Earned.
What else is holding up the deal now?
I wonder if they do a remaster of a popular call of duty would it be exclusive since the deal is for future titles.
'All dogs dance to the tune of money'
Because they have been paid off
Sony L
That means Diablo 4 and COD are coming to Xbox Game pass. Let's go!
So do you think Microsoft is going for EA next?
bullshit
Might change again after the news of them cancelling Redfall on PS. Phil only says he'll play nice now bc it'll benefit them but once the deal goes through we'll see what really happens.
Ah the bribe was finally big enough then?
Sawbones194 To be honest, Playstation players don't care about competition. In the end, they only have the disadvantage of it.
I said it from the beginning. Giving another entity a piece of that money pie. That's all this took to end this theater.
I loved Xbox seen the 360 days now I just own a PS5 any Xbox games I can just play on PC
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAS! call of duty on gamepass. lets fucking go. :D
The rest will follow this is a huge blow to the FTC
What have we learned today? Regulators shouldn't lap up concerns from a dominant market leader with dirty hands.
Sony means you can gobble up Capcom and square enix
Well the Exclusive wars is going to start sony don't hold back
Sony without Cod 🤣
I’m curious which games/IP Microsoft WILL make exclusive. Forget CoD (I don’t play it) but what other future games could I loose out on unless I purchase an Xbox or game streaming service?
This is publishers shouldn't buy publishers and stick to studios. Otherwise you get World War COD
Big question I have. Why was none this kind of craziness brought up when Sony purchased Insomniac Games? Xbox players not being able play spider-man is an issue. But some how, some way, that's ok?
Jim Ryan right now
Incoming Xbox cringy memes 😅 towards PlayStation.
That inspect is mmmmmmmmm
oh oh oh! where are those ponies? last time I saw a bunch of them crying in VGC tweet
The bad ending
I'm sure Sony loses call of duty rights they just going to put out one day other shooters they had on shelf killzone/ resistance I'm sure there's others that I'm forgetting
wow, the British government is finally coming to their senses. it only took them a whole year. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
NO_BSBOT Took them a full year to finally see through this
I gently disagree with CMA but unlike me they reviewed millions of docs. Now Xbox acquisitions include: - Halo - Gears Of War - Minecraft - Banjo Kazooie - Elder Scrolls - Fallout - Minecraft - Doom - Wolfenstein - Call Of Duty - Overwatch - Diablo - Warcraft That's a lot.
How much did it pain you to write that ... 🤣😂🤡
It will. Just give it time.
Welp...
I guess ponies will stop tagging the CMA now in every tweet? 🤣
I find it weird that Xbox owners would gloat if this deal goes through. It wouldn’t affect them either way so why do they act like they’ve won something. And why do they get off mocking PlayStation fans. Seems very odd
Welp, Call of Duty has been sent to die a horrible death. Looks like Modern Warfare II will be my last one.
Ponies rn:
Look at that. The side with most money wins. Who would of guessed? 😂 Shit box scrubs having a new years party for their STILL multi platform games though..
The only way for Call of Duty to improve is if Microsoft makes it exclusive. Removing it from the weaker competitor aka Playstation will do wonders for the franchise. Xbox is the future and these acquisitions are only the beginning
It’s done.
How Sony is feeling right now:
LMAO they finally did some real research after all
Big W for Xbox
Wow what changed?! Absolutely nothing…thanks for wasting your time and ours🙄🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️