Asobo were in the Initial 100 list along with Certain Affinity who also didn't make it in the Final list, I remember a Rumor back then that MS were in talks/interested with a studio close to Sony and people were speculating that it was Bluepoint so I guess now we know that it was Housemaque. 

My surprise is that not a single independent Japanese Studio made the Final List along with no Korean devs as well

AMD is Starfield’s Exclusive PC Partner - YouTube

Now this is the good stuff. Meaning that we really never get to see under the hood of top execs talking about the market, their strategy what they truly think about their competition etc.  If anyone was tired of the whole ABK merger this type of insight should make them pause because you never get this level of detail within a huge corp like MS if not for them getting taken to court.  A lot of good nuggets here.

As far as growth is concerned, NO XCloud is not the driver of the industry and probably will not be for a while.  As he stated, mobile is a huge market but the customer base their isn't really interested in the type of games that sell on console and PC.  He want more accomplished mobile developers and find a way to turn mobile customers into Xbox customers as the growth potential is way higher.

I am sure he must be frustrated as hell that out of all the things the CMA could block the merger, it was something he basically has no real interest in pushing.

FTC's Expert Witness Report is Live: gov.uscourts.cand.413969.224.0.pdf (courtlistener.com)

Lee argues that Microsoft has economic incentive to withhold CoD or degrade Activision content on PlayStation, Lol.

He defines the markets as...

• High-Performance Video Game Consoles (Excluding PC).
• Video Game Consoles
• Content Library and Cloud Gaming Services
• Content Library Services
• Cloud Gaming Services

He argues that Xbox could do terrible things such as timed exclusive content, something which Sony already does.

He tries to discredit Minecraft by arguing that foreclosing Minecraft on PlayStation would have had little effect on PlayStation compared to foreclosing CoD on PlayStation.

He uses Stadia and argues that Stadia's failure provides evidence that entry into Cloud Streaming Services is challenging, even for "well-financed companies".

Lol I feel like this hurts his argument, if even well-financed companies are struggling then how the hell will low-financed companies be able to afford the likes of CoD and such without this Microsoft deal, this 10 year deal to many Cloud companies will basically be a lifeline for 10 years to allow them to grow their business and hopefully then in the future be able to afford other large titles.

If people think Activision as an independent company will give their titles for free to these indie cloud services then they don't know nothing about Activision.

My first question as the MS lawyer is to ask him to please point to the video game system that thrives as a market without a content library or services? Then I'm asking him, if there are in fact multiple of these ALWAYS wrapped up into any one ecosystem, how can you possibly define any of them as an entity onto itself?

Seems nobody cared to forward Jim Ryan email to this "market expert".

Probably a boring day, Jim Ryan is sealed, Lori is not on the stand, two Nvidia execs who have short statements.

The FTC's expert witness and Xbox's expert witness but will probably be boring market definitions.