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- Some market players told the CMA they believed vetoing the deal was "excessive," while others said it would be disproportionate if alternative, effective remedies were available. Others said they did not see harm to competition in the first place.
- Only Sony and an undisclosed third party agreed with vetoing the deal.
It's literally only Sony and Google who are opposed to the deal, Sony barely tries in Cloud Gaming and Stadia was completely different to xCloud, for starters it was positioned as a direct competitor and a standalone thing whilst xCloud is inherently attached to Game Pass, Microsoft realised it wouldn't be a success without Game Pass. Stadia was completely different as a business proposition to xCloud.
And now Stadia is out of the market so what the hell is their opinion worth? Lol.
Meanwhile everyone else is saying the CMA are being excessive, that it would be disproportionate to block the deal if remedies were available, or that there's no harm to competition in the first place. The actual Cloud providers in the market either don't care (Amazon) or support the deal (Ubitus, Boosteroid, EE, GeForce Now) along with two Microsoft rivals (Valve and Nintendo).
Even crazier this represents a majority of the Cloud competitors that CMA listed IIRC.
The majority of the actual Cloud market seems in favour of the deal...But CMA is protecting Sony, Google and some imaginary entrees that may or may not enter the market in the future if the market even exists healthily in the future, and then saying to Ubitus, Boosteroid, EE, Nvidia that even though they accept the 10 year deals and think they are good enough, the CMA doesn't. It's madness.
- MLex also says that the veto should alarm tech companies like Broadcom or Amazon, among other large tech companies expecting to make an acquisition or in the process.
Yeah, I think a few tech companies are going to be quite annoyed by this decision, CMA is overreaching. You put every acquisition at risk if you can block them all based on complete and utter speculation, Lol.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 26 April 2023
