The UK competition regulator has said Microsoft’s $75bn acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard could “result in higher prices, fewer choices, or less innovation for UK gamers” in provisional findings that jeopardise the landmark deal.
The Competition and Markets Authority on Wednesday said the deal would weaken the “important rivalry between Xbox and PlayStation” in gaming consoles and stifle competition in the nascent market of cloud gaming.
The findings are a blow to Microsoft, which is also battling regulatory probes in Brussels and the US to push through its biggest-ever deal and become the third-largest gaming company in terms of revenues, behind China’s Tencent and Japan’s Sony.
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