Microsoft is hoping its offer will stop a deeper EU investigation before it happens.
that Microsoft is gearing up to offer concessions to EU regulators regarding its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, consisting mainly of a 10-year offer to Sony to keep CoD on PlayStation.
Microsoft has already talked publicly about a deal like this before. Last week, it came out that Microsoft had apparentlydirectly, which Sony refused to comment on. It now seems that Microsoft is willing to put that contract to the regulators themselves, letting them decide if it would be sufficient to settle their jitters.
It could very well be successful. The regulatory pressure that Microsoft has encountered so far has largely revolved around its competitors' access to CoD, rather than broader questions of industry consolidation and monopolisation. Both the UK and EU watchdogs initiated deeper,"Phase 2" investigations of the deal amid a lot of verbiage about CoD, while theto the acquisition soon.
Although it might feel like Microsoft has been in the process of acquiring Activision for decades, it was actually only. Since then, we've all been trapped in a long back-and-forth between Microsoft, Sony, and myriad national regulators. With 16 countries investigating the deal—and with only Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Serbia having cleared it so far—we're probably in for a lot more lawyering before all's said and done.
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