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Ryuu96 on 24 March 2023
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shikamaru317 said:
Ryuu96 said:

One leading antitrust lawyer said: "This is a very unusual development. In CMA-era cases, there has only been one other occurrence of 'updated' provisional findings that I'm aware of." "This is extremely unusual," said an ex-CMA lawyer. "Restating your provisional findings is something you would rather die than do."

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They realized they fucked up bad on that "CoD effect on the ecosystem" math I guess.

Yup. I think CMA dropped the Console SLC because of the Maths error and once it was corrected they had absolutely no way of claiming an SLC.

I think they were maybe worried about their near perfect record and a mistake as big as this had a strong chance of CAT actually siding against them for once, which would have been a large stain on their history, a pretty large fumble and very well spotted by Microsoft. As soon as Microsoft pointed it out we were all like "Yup, this is heading to CAT"

Basically they couldn't keep the error in because CAT would smack it down but once they fixed the error, it destroys their already weak SLC claim.

Could have been maybe the first? example of CAT siding against CMA with an error that large. Now we're left with just Cloud SLC and really that would be a very stupid block so I think they take what they can get and take the concessions, maybe push Microsoft a little further but ultimately approve. There may be a chance that CMA/EC work together on this.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 24 March 2023