{"id":3857,"date":"2023-06-28T08:06:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T02:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2023-06-28T08:06:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T02:36:52","slug":"microsoft-attempts-to-pick-apart-us-legal-argument-against-deal-to-buy-activision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/?p=3857","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Attempts To Pick Apart US Legal Argument Against Deal To Buy Activision"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Microsoft is facing a tough time buying Activision. (Reuters)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Arguing for the government on Tuesday in its legal fight against Microsoft’s $69 billion deal to buy game maker Activision Blizzard, Harvard economist Robin Lee struggled at times to plainly demonstrate how the planned deal would hurt gamers.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Arguing for the government on Tuesday in its legal fight against Microsoft\u2019s $69 billion deal to buy game maker Activision Blizzard, Harvard economist Robin Lee struggled at times to plainly demonstrate how the planned deal would hurt gamers.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked a federal judge to stop the transaction temporarily in order to allow the agency\u2019s in-house judge to decide if it can go forward. That said, the side that loses in federal court often concedes and the in-house process does not go forward. Lee was pressed by an attorney for Microsoft over the details of his analyses of potential market share gains for the Redmond, Washington-based company\u2019s Xbox division, particularly the effect on gamers who would migrate due to the wildly popular \u201dCall of Duty\u201d videogame which is made by Activision.<\/p>\n

Lee acknowledged that his analyses did not account for anything but full exclusivity of \u201dCall of Duty\u201d on Xbox and did not show what may occur if the game was available on Nintendo\u2019s Switch. If the deal goes through, Microsoft has pledged to provide the game to Switch for 10 years.<\/p>\n

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Microsoft attorney Beth Wilkinson pressed Lee in an effort to poke holes in his analysis of the deal, pointing out limitations of his economic modeling. At times the questioning grew testy, including when Wilkinson said forcefully, \u201cProfessor Lee, can you answer my question?\u201d on a fine detail of his reports.<\/p>\n

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Appearing to grow frustrated with the difficulty in parsing Lee\u2019s answers, Wilkinson at one point mapped out his market share assumptions on a white board visible to the judge. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley, a federal judge in San Francisco who will decide the case, said little on Tuesday. The FTC says the transaction would give Microsoft exclusive access to Activision games, leaving Nintendo and Sony Group out in the cold. Microsoft has argued that it would be better off financially by licensing the games to all comers. The deal has won approval from many jurisdictions but has been opposed by the FTC in the United States and Britain\u2019s Competition and Markets Authority.<\/p>\n

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Bharat Upadhyay, Senior Sub-Editor at News18 Tech, writes about technology and consumer gadgets. He has been covering the technology beat for over six…Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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