Can Xbox Flip the EU on Activision? | What of Sony and PlayStation? (VL748)

Microsoft x Activision may well prove the longest playlist on this channel, as the news simply won't stop.

Now, Reuters comes out with a very insightful exclusive, claiming that Microsoft intends to short circuit the EU merger review process...by promising them most everything the tech company thinks they will want.

But will it work?

This was always going to head to concessions...in Virtual Legality.

#Microsoft #Xbox #Activision

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
1:05 A History of Flipping
9:08 Attempting the Biggest Flip Yet
18:27 Conclusion

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Discussed in this episode:

PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1zDCgJzZUy_vBs7Qt9-ROfumOtIrSdP8

ARTICLES
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/technology/microsoft-activision-deal.html
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2022/02/09/open-app-store-principles-activision-blizzard/
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2022/06/02/employee-organizing-engagement-labor-economy/
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/microsoft-likely-offer-eu-concessions-soon-activision-deal-sources-2022-11-28/

LAW
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_6578
https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/mergers/procedures_en

"Virtual Legality" is a continuing series discussing the law, video games, software, and everything digital, hosted by Richard Hoeg, of the Hoeg Law Business Law Firm (Hoeg Law).

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