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> This is actually incredibly funny reading because Google Stadia was 100% worse than Xbox Cloud. You had to sub + pay for the game too. And some of them were e
by capableweb 3y ago
> This is actually incredibly funny reading because Google Stadia was 100% worse than Xbox Cloud. You had to sub + pay for the game too. And some of them were exclusives too.
It's also incredibly irrelevant, Google is not the ones being investigated here, and Stadia has also been shut down so it's not relevant at all how much better or worse it is.
The question is not which platform is better or worse, but if Microsoft could potentially abuse their position if the merger goes through.
I recommend you to either read the final report (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/644939aa529eda000c3b0525/Microsoft_Activision_Final_Report_.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/644939aa529ed...) or the summary of the final report (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6448f377814c66000c8d067f/Microsoft-Activision_FR_Summary.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6448f377814c6...). Probably the summary is a bit easier to digest, as it's 20 pages rather than 418 pages, but it has all the information you need to understand the case, as most news sources don't go into much depth.
- qwytw 3y agoIs is Microsoft's fault that they don't have any competent competition? It's not like they somehow squeezed Stadia out of the market...
- Karunamon 3y agoNo, but that's not the regulator's problem either. It's not as if there is some sacrosanct right for companies to merge that is being abrogated. The entire existence of a company is at the pleasure of government.
- Zpalmtree 3y agoIs that meant to be a good thing?
- Karunamon 3y agoThat's meant to be an explanation of how things are without making a value judgment. For-profit corporations are not people with human rights, they are amoral impersonal constructs, legitimized entirely by the state, intended to serve the economy. If they are not doing that adequately, for instance, by introducing monopolization concerns on a market, their behavior can be arbitrarily restricted.
- WeylandYutani 3y agoPreferable to the reverse (unless you're American I suppose).