There are 8m PS Plus Premium members. The tier that has PlayStation Cloud Streaming.

Game Pass has 25m subscribers.

I wonder how many of that 25m are Ultimate only and how that changes CMA's "Microsoft has 70% of the market cause all GPU members are Cloud users"

Cause all 8m of those PS Plus Premium members are now "Cloud users" by the same logic.

Doesn't really matter since CAT doesn't accept new evidence in the appeal process, Lol.

I thought they appealed that shit a while ago already? People were writing articles about them appealing it, and filing imminently weeks ago, no?

True. Microsoft probably needs to pay 3x of what Sony does right now due to difference in install base size. But there is a way to successfully strike such deals. Just need to sell a lot more consoles and actually focus on selling a lot more consoles instead of saying we will always be far behind not matter what we do because this and because that.

I think you even a bit underestimate how much Sony pays sometimes. I wouldn’t be surprised if they have deals that cost them hundreds of millions.

Maybe because Xbox port was coming initially and Microids just wanted to use Xbox fans to generate Twitter drama so this game nobody cares about gets some media exposure and they will be able to sell 10 copies instead of 5?

Perfect day to announce the death of the deal. 

Having read the conclusion, I don't believe the CMA actually included all GPU members in the share of Xcloud VS the competition, however, they made severely dubious other assumptions and overlooks.

1. Stadia share included only their free tier because Google was unable to offer a split by tier.
2. It seems Amazon provided data for both included games with Prime and not and the CMA decided to exclude all usage with games that are included with Prime. This is particularly concerning since the same logic applied to Xcloud should make them exclude all usage of Gamepass-included titles but they did not. 
3. They discredited Microsoft's assessment that Xcloud is mainly used for trying before downloading despite the fact it was supported by polling. The decision to discredit the poll was due to a high share of XGPU users not even knowing about GamePass, however, this:
   
   1. Is a logical fallacy, there's no reason to believe the main usage reported by actual users would be any different than users who don't know of it. all users that know of XCloud were at some point users that did not know of it so by pure logic when a group of users learns of its existence there's is 0 reason to believe their usage would be any different than current users.
   2. Overlook completely the fact that the UI doesn't require a user to know of Xcloud to make use of it.
4. Monthly time spent would have been a way better metric which would by default remove the try before use bias to the MAU figure.
5. They overlooked the fact that Xcloud is not a standalone service compared to its competitor because they view Xcloud as one of the main reasons users subscribe to XGPU.
   1. This totally contradicts their prior use of the large number of XGPU users who don't even know of Xcloud to discredit the main usage of try before download.

Nope they said they would appeal but didn't actually send it in until today (the final date you can appeal).

Seems weird to leave it to the last minute

This isn't really relevant, but I want to save this tweet for the Xbox showcase.

"Having low expectations because you don't want to be disappointed is the coward's way out. Believe in something for once"