After many recent questioning and answering in court, Microsoft and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission have bothAcquired Activision BlizzardWhether it involves market monopoly has its own argument, and the court will make a ruling as soon as next week.
U.S. court rules as soon as next week on whether Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard involves monopoly
Prior to this, the US Federal Trade Commission determined that Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard would constitute a monopoly in the game market, and therefore proposedBlock this transaction request. Microsoft, on the other hand, promised to continue to provide game content to competing platforms such as Sony and Nintendo in the next 10 years, emphasizing that the acquisition of Activision Blizzard is actually beneficial to the development of the overall game market.
When the two parties made many defenses in the court, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella emphasized that he was quite willing to get rid of the exclusive situation of game content on the Xbox platform, but the approach of competitor Sony made Microsoft have to compete with it in the game market in an exclusive form.
At present, regulatory agencies in countries and regions including China, South Korea, and Japan have unconditionally approved Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Even the EU regulatory agencies that had objections to this transaction at the beginning also agreed to Microsoft’s transaction.
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