Welp, looking forward to closing arguments. Hopefully, we get a ruling sometime after the July 4th holiday so the 5th-7th (I'm assuming the judge isn't going to drag her feet considering she said she's aware of the current time constraints of the ABK/MS merger.

New video going over today's Microsoft vs FTC hearing. 

Topics covered:

• Microsoft Considered Acquiring Square Enix
• Bobby Kotick Regrets Not Bringing Call of Duty to the Switch
• Bobby Kotick Isn't Interested in Xbox Game Pass or Any Subscription Services
• Next-Generation Nintendo Console to be Close in Power to the PS4 and Xbox One
• Microsoft CEO: Sony Has Defined Market Competition Using Exclusives
• Sony's Call of Duty Deal Ends in 2024, But Only Includes Up to Call of Duty 2023
• Horizon Forbidden West and The Last of Us Part II Budgets Accidentally Revealed
• Sony Believes Nearly Half of PS5 Owners in the US Also Have a Switch

So far.

Day 1, 2 and 3 - Clearly in Microsoft's favour, FTC was screwed in those days, their expert witness was awful.

Day 4 - More 50/50, a fairly boring and uneventful day, Satya was wasted by FTC, Bobby dodged them but the FTC lawyer did better at baiting him, the male FTC lawyer is absolute garbage, the woman is a lot better but still they've not proven in any way that this deal is anti-consumer or anti-competitive and since the burden of proof is on the FTC, a draw is NOT a good thing, they need a clear win.

I think Microsoft's 2nd expert witness was fairly uneventful but FTC kept trying to discredit him and ask him shit he wasn't even paid to research, Microsoft's 1st expert witness was the best by far, I will say though that this dude's purpose was to discredit FTC's expert witness but FTC's expert witness already discredited themselves, Lol.

There's Phil and Satya committing under oath to CoD on PlayStation, Jim Ryan saying Nintendo is a competitor, Google and Nvidia saying Cloud competes with Console. I don't see any chance that FTC can win this and Microsoft has 4 more testimonies to call, including Nintendo, Lol.

Microsoft should have called Mat to the stand

They doing too well, therefore they aren't qualified anymore. 

Hmm....

Can strike Housemarque and Bungie off.

But looking at this list, Microsoft has made a Game Pass deal with 11 Bit Studios and both Paradox Interactive and SEGA heavily support Game Pass with many of their titles launching day one into the service. So, I suppose for a few of these candidates even if an acquisition doesn't happen, we may see some sort of Game Pass partnership.

Notable maybe that they signed an exclusivity deal with People Can Fly and IO Interactive's title is rumoured to be exclusive so maybe these could also transform from acquisition targets to exclusivity deals.

It's funny how much better off MS would be - quality wise - if they'd just made moves for Thunderful, Remedy, IO Interactive, & 11 bit Studios. Never have to deal with this international headache and didn't have to give Kotick a golden parachute.