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Microsoft Responds to FTC Attempt to Block Activision Blizzard Deal

37 Pages: 20221222_9412_Resp_Microsofts_Answer_PUBLIC.pdf

Microsoft has filed a response to the FTC’s lawsuit challenging the Activision acquisition. In the response, Microsoft admits that “Xbox anticipates that three future [Bethesda] titles…will be exclusive to Xbox and PCs” 👀 these will be primarily single player games pic.twitter.com/HWzLBbtdfT

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) December 23, 2022

Microsoft filed its response to the FTC pic.twitter.com/bpfuzlv3ya

— Brad Sams (@bdsams) December 23, 2022

It is therefore unsurprising that after nearly a full year investigating this transaction, receiving millions of Microsoft and Activision documents, and speaking to over a dozen witnesses, there is no evidence that Xbox intends to take Call of Duty away from PlayStation—or any platform at all. No emails, no text messages, no testimony. There is one reason for that: Xbox does not intend to take that step

Xbox has made this same offer to other competitors, and at least one (Nintendo) has accepted to date. Sony refuses to deal. But a vertical merger causes anticompetitive harm only when the acquired input is "essential." If Call of Duty were truly essential, Sony would have no reason to refuse

Its vision for the transaction is simple: Xbox wants to grow its presence in mobile gaming, and three quarters of Activision’s gamers and more than a third of its revenues come from mobile offerings.

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Boring one this time, most of it is just standard legal response, Microsoft denies/confirms allegations, see you in court, Lol.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 22 December 2022