Because voting in the USA is so reliable?
He's got a blue check mark. Has to be real, right?I m not sure whats real and whats not with anything that links to twitter anymore. Everyrhing feels like a parody
Sure gotta make sure that fair and impartial government employee gets to play call of duty on his playstationExcellent news. Then Microsoft will not doubt be willing to provide whatever legal mitigation assurances that regulators require and this aspect of the acquisition will no longer be a sticking point. Interview promises and twitter commitments are not legally binding, FYI.
Microsoft then need to address all the other concerns that they've been publicly ignoring whilst pretending this was all about PlayStation and Call of Duty.
well,almost nobody gives anything for free. MS must simply up the ante and say what are they going to do after the acquisition if they want this to be successful. Afaik, initially the EU released a questionnaire for developers from other companies in the industry about their perception on the deal, dunno what happened with that part of the process.The inquiry in this M&A case is different: it's the biggest M&A in gaming, one of the biggest in tech. It has wide-reaching consequences in a variety of different markets, some of them nascent, and has the very real possibility of just outright creating insurmountable barriers of entry in these nascent markets for anyone but, maybe, some other trillion dollar company.
Besides that, regulatory agencies just wised up to the fact that they spent the past two decades being way too lenient with big tech in these matters and doing that put us into this hellhole that that is Meta controlling an outsized slice of social media worldwide, for instance.
So yeah, scrutiny will be way more intense. It should be.
They probably shouldn't have used "on our to do list" if it was only his personal opinion.
Came here to say this. This is the danger of personal, direct communication by a government employee that can be easily mistaken as the position of the organization they work for. If you do look at Cardoso's profile, he defines himself by his job title, and while there is a note stating "views: mine", he rarely tweets anything not about government work. It's easy to see why people would think this is a member of the commission stating a commission position.They probably shouldn't have used "on our to do list" if it was only his personal opinion.
Excellent news. Then Microsoft will not doubt be willing to provide whatever legal mitigation assurances that regulators require and this aspect of the acquisition will no longer be a sticking point. Interview promises and twitter commitments are not legally binding, FYI.
Microsoft then need to address all the other concerns that they've been publicly ignoring whilst pretending this was all about PlayStation and Call of Duty.
Well they are if you consider they are 1 of the 3 companies that sell consoles. They are 50% of the competitors.Looks like Sony=most of the competitors.
More than that. They're 100% of competitors after their hand-waving away that Nintendo doesn't count.Well they are if you consider they are 1 of the 3 companies that sell consoles. They are 50% of the competitors.