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shikamaru317 on 08 December 2022
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gtotheunit91 said:
EpicRandy said:

I have a similar take on this, FTC must review merger and can act upon merger but may still sue any established entity for anti-competitive practice or for other reasons.

Maybe here they believe, and like MS stated in the past, the resulting entity will not have a significant enough share of the market to justify being blocked but pre-emptively sue MS in a bid to force them to sell what they think will confer them to much power aka CoD. 

if this logic is sound then the suit would fall with no consequence if the deal does not conclude due to any other regulatory body otherwise suing pre-emptily may allow the FTC to act in time and reduce opportunity for MS to use CoD anti-competitive potential and force them to sell the franchise. 

Sell CoD to who? lol

Anybody really. For instance, when Disney acquired Fox, Disney was forced to sell off most of their sports channels in Mexico by their regulator COFECE before they were allowed to acquire Fox, as they would have owned 70% of sports channels in Mexico. They sold a bunch of their channels to Sony in order to get the deal passed. Similarly Brazil's CADE regulator forced Fox to sell off Fox Sports channels in Brazil in order to get their acquisition approval.

One of these regulators could force Xbox to sell CoD and the CoD studios to another publisher potentially. Though I don't think it will come to that, Xbox would sooner pay the $2b to back out of the acquisition than they would pay $69b for Activision-Blizzard-King with no CoD, ABK with no CoD isn't even worth half that amount probably.