The EU official, who is not involved in approving Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, quipped about gamers still being able to play Call of Duty on PlayStation.
, Ricardo Cardoso, Deputy Head of Unit Interinstitutional & Outreach at the EU Department of Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship, & SMEs accidentally stepped in it: he made himself a participant in the oldest conflict in human history, the console wars. Although he made a public comment on the process, Ricardo Cardoso himself is not involved with the process of approving the merger.
It's not pretty obvious to me, honestly, and this is my job. The insistence that the biggest corporate consolidation in videogame history"brings more competition to gaming as a whole" is a psychic blow that I may never recover from., who pointed to Phil Spencer's prior statement that Microsoft will"continue to ship Call of Duty on PlayStation."
Corporate strategies, like Xbox's more consumer-friendly stance and looser grip on its IPs, are malleable—just a few years ago we had Games for Windows Live, and in the '90s, Microsoft faced massive antitrust lawsuits in the United States over some of its business practices. A shift like the ActiBlizz merger can only be reversed by a similarly mind-boggling exchange of capital in line with its $68.
That has not mollified the Xbox Praetorians of Twitter—one commenter felt the need to reply with a blurry jpeg of the character Ross from the show Friends with text reading"Get a load of this fucking idiot." Other comments share a similar character.
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