It seems that little by little we are approaching the end of the case. This news today is not definitive, as it does not come from any official channel linked to the European Commission of Regulators, but rather from Reuters, the news agency. Cierto es que la reputation está fuera de toda duda, pero la afirmación es lo suficientemente important como para dejarlo claro: La Comisión Europea aprobaría la compra de Activision Blizzard King por parte de Microsoft tras satisfacer los últimos acuerdos las dudas anticompetitivas o sobre monopolio que tenía the organization.
This decision, which will become official on April 25, would be very important and decisive for the two others in disagreement, the American FTC, but even more important with the CMA of the United Kingdom, with which, let us remember, that due to its mechanism You cannot appeal to a court. Apparently, the remedies offered by Microsoft to the doubts that the European organization has pointed out, namely the agreement with Nintendo to bring the Call of Duty saga to its machines, that of Nvidia to bring its exclusives and the one presented -but not accepted – to Sony, would have been enough to accept the acquisition.
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Of course, this news should also serve to prevent the FTC and CMA from seeking additional concessions from Microsoft, since the European Commission would not require Microsoft to separate assets outside of the purchase agreement, that is- that is, it removes Call of Duty, the main problem exposed by Sony in the deal, from the equation.
Phil Spencer himself said in his last interview for Xbox On, and which we share with you below translated into Spanish, that much of the interest in buying Activision Blizzard is precisely because of the third member, who we don’t often mention, King, who has a huge experience in the mobile market and not only that, but also the successes of Call of Duty Mobile or Diablo: Immortal. In fact, he claims that ABK is the biggest western company in this video game market, so it’s extremely important for his business, but also, as he said, not decisive for the very existence of Xbox as a brand.
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