LONDON : For all the thunder about Xbox versus PlayStation, it was the nascent cloud market that led to Britain's surprise decision to block Microsoft's record Activision Blizzard takeover.Microsoft has been working for months to satisfy concerns about the $69 billion deal raised by Britain's Competition
LONDON : For all the thunder about Xbox versus PlayStation, it was the nascent cloud market that led to Britain's surprise decision to block Microsoft's record Activision Blizzard takeover.
Microsoft offered Sony a 10-year guarantee that new versions of"Call of Duty" - one of the most valuable franchises in gaming - would be available on PlayStation at the same time as on Xbox. Nintendo secured a similar deal. It said Microsoft already accounted for 60-70 per cent of global cloud gaming services and had other trump cards: Xbox, the leading PC operating system Windows and cloud provider Azure.
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