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[EpicRandy]

Ryuu96 said:

Waiittt a minute.

• The acquisition would harm competition in the distribution of PC and console games via cloud game streaming services, an innovative market segment that could transform the way many gamers play video games. Despite its potential, cloud game streaming is very limited today. The Commission found that the popularity of Activision's games could promote its growth. Instead, if Microsoft made Activision's games exclusive to its own cloud game streaming service, Game Pass Ultimate, and withheld them from rival cloud game streaming providers, it would reduce competition in the distribution of games via cloud game streaming.

@EpicRandy Does that read to you like EC doesn't consider Cloud Gaming its own market?

Looks like it's only considered a segment of a larger market but they still identified it as problematic. If MS did not propose any remedies to those issues, the EU would have also blocked the deal on those findings. So on the 1 hand, it's not considered distinct enough to be its own standalone market, on the other hand, it's distinctive enough to warrant its own consideration. 

Don't know exactly what to make of this...