The internet was completely insufferable yesterday so I haven’t posted since the news dropped

Is there even a sliver of hope for salvaging the deal or is this thing good as dead and we should just mentally move on

Not sure if that would really make a difference.  Think about it this way, if they say its a bug, people would still say hold the release until you fix it.  In gamers mind its still an L no matter what but for a business, its money.  I am sure if they are shipping at 30 its one of those bugs that takes a hell of a lot of development time or it would be a day one bug release.  When you do not have a clear understanding how long it will take to reach 60fps and hopefully rock solid which I am going to doubt because most games do not ship with a rock solid 60fps mode.  They probably just have to take that L and make sure the rest of the game performs rock solid at 30fps.  If the game dips a lot and run like crap at 30fps, there is going to be hell to pay with the negative feedback.  They probably pouring all their dev time in making the 30fps rock solid as that needs to be tight.

Mentally move on, the deal is dead.

Windows memory management just isn't really designed for a gaming handheld device.  There is a lot of stuff running that just not needed on a handheld and how Windows give out resources need to be totally changed.  Why MS has not created a mobile version of windows all this time is a huge miss but at least their engineers see that and hopefully the company get moving forward on stripping out all that gunk in windows to make it a viable mobile platform.

I assumed as much but it still sucks. 

you ever watch a sports game where it’s close and exciting, and in the final seconds when one of the players is trying to make a big play to decide the game, a ref or official steps in to end the game on a ticky-tacky and debatable procedural infraction? 

That’s basically what this feels like. Blocking the deal on cloud gaming grounds kind of tells me that something is structurally broken with the CMA wherin they are making sweeping regulatory decisions on markets they know nothing about and seem to choose to know nothing about. 

But how well will Xbox App run on it?

To quote myself from a few days ago:    A Great company is not one that tries to attract and delight consumers with great promises but rather one who delight consumers with continuously delivering great content. 

Your comment is basically a good example, less than a year ago people would almost say the same, '2022 will atleast end great with Redfall and Starfield!! 2023 is going  to be better with so many games on the horizon.'

Almost 3 years in and MS is still stuck in the phase 'lets try to get customers with promises' while the competition is in the 'their is a ton of content and the gaming community can see it' phase

'It would be interesting to know why you believe great content is coming based on the last 10 years of promises?'

Yeah, the fact that that's the route they chose to block the deal will forever baffle me. Aside from a certain fanbase who seem to be the only ones that believe this was a valid reason. 

MS could've offered Amazon Luna a deal as well but that wouldn't have mattered since CMA's entire argument is that it wouldn't allow new companies to enter the Cloud Gaming market, which how would any startup be able to afford ABK????? Boosteroid and the like sure as hell won't be able to afford them now! 

Not to mention they straight up admit that Google/Apple are a duopoly on the mobile market and felt this deal wouldn't have changed anything lol. So they seem to be okay with that.