Three rival companies told the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that they believed Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard would harm competition.
, the CMA spoke to six third parties who are either existing competitors in console gaming or cloud gaming services, or potential competitors should the merger be approved.
In a summary of the evidence it gathered from these meetings, the CMA revealed that half of the companies said they believed the merger would have a negative impact on competition, “including by affording Microsoft the ability and incentive to foreclose potential and existing rivals in the console buy-to-play, console multi-game subscription and cloud gaming spaces”.
Two companies didn’t express concerns about the merger, while the remaining one said it was too early to determine what the impact of the deal would be.
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