The judge sees no evidence of this happening for an “established, multiplayer, multiplatform game with cross-play” like CoD. There’s not two, but eight reasons why the FTC claims don’t make sense here: these include things like the Activision deal justification within Microsoft including Call Of Duty as multiplatform, no internal documents showing plans to take it Xbox/PC exclusive, and “irreparable reputational harm” to Activision and Microsoft if they did so. She breaks down the precise criteria the FTC needs to prove succinctly: in the end, the Federal Trade Commission needs to show all of these: “the combined firm (1) has the ability to withhold Call Of Duty (2) has the incentive to withhold Call of Duty from its rivals (3) competition would probably be substantially lessened as a result of the withholding.” She then proceeds to semi-demolish those claims, using evidence… this starts around of the document, if you’d like to read along at home. So she waves it through - mainly because it doesn’t affect the final decision. If she was “the final decisionmaker” - you can taste the chilliness here - she would include it, but the FTC just needs to make a “tenable showing”. Corley notes: “Xbox set the price of its entry-level Series S to compete with Switch”, listing big multiplatform crossovers (Fortnite, Minecraft, Rocket League). She thinks the FTC is dumb to exclude the Switch from its market definition: one key point that the FTC claims is that only Xbox and PlayStation are comparable devices. It’s actually pretty funny in places! Three highlights that we’re still mooning over: You too can read her full (somewhat redacted) 53-page decision, if you’d like. īut what we did want to turn this section into is a brief fan column for North District of California judge Jacqueline Scott Corley, who had to deal with a lot of drama and get to a clean decision in a remarkably short amount of time. This Rebekah Valentine piece for IGN on what happened & what happens next is one of the best ‘explainers’ we’ve seen - go check it. We have no desire to go super deep on ramifications, since many others have in a more timely fashion. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, and the two companies must find a way forward to resolve opposition from the Competition and Markets Authority in the United Kingdom.” The FTC can now bring the decision to the U.S. “The deal isn’t completely in the clear, though. FTC injunction against buying Activision Blizzard. īefore we veer off into ‘cool Xbox document that nobody else looked at’ territory, it is reasonable of us to concede - yes, Microsoft just beat out the preliminary U.S. the FTC - yes, Microsoft ‘won’, kinda?Īpologies in advance for the terrible Photoshop using Xbox’s OG Avatar creator. (Oh no - we’re calling shamrocks and shenanigans. His clutch replacement ? A terrifying oversized leprechaun mask. Nier creator Yoko Taro unfortunately lost his Emil mask, which he uses for all public appearances, during Anime Expo. court rulings, three for a shilling.īefore we start? Here’s our favorite weird video game news from last week. What’s up? Well, we’ve got posies, we’ve got daffodils, we’ve got fragrant bouquets of U.S. Includes improved default X-Plane 10.Re-welcome to this mid-week flower of a newsletter, blossoming before your very eyes.The cockpits are accurate and well equipped. They are well constructed, looks good and have impeccable behavior in flight. The Carenado line of aircraft has been well acclaimed by users and reviewers for many years and for good reason. About This Content NOTE: THE MAIN GAME X-PLANE 10 IS NOT AVAILABLE ANYMORE! PLEASE ONLY PURCHASE DLCS WHEN YOU ARE ALREADY OWNER OF X-PLANE 10!
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