Re:EU antitrust regulators clear $69B Microsoft, Activision ...
by Hamuko on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:30AM
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>Such licenses are "practical and effective"
Effective for 10 years, to be precise. What then?
There's been exactly zero ZeniMax games announced for rivalling consoles after the Microsoft buyout in 2021 despite Microsoft telling the European regulators that it wasn't in their interest to withold games from other platforms. Hi-Fi Rush is exclusive, Redfall is exclusive and the PS5 version was scrapped, and Starfield is exclusive.
Effective for 10 years, to be precise. What then?
There's been exactly zero ZeniMax games announced for rivalling consoles after the Microsoft buyout in 2021 despite Microsoft telling the European regulators that it wasn't in their interest to withold games from other platforms. Hi-Fi Rush is exclusive, Redfall is exclusive and the PS5 version was scrapped, and Starfield is exclusive.