Follow last year’s soap opera.
Although what should concern Xbox users should be the supposed event focused on Starfield that could be held very soon, the truth is that everything revolves around the purchase of Activision Blizzard and what will happen with it in the future, since today we can see how the process of this has been at a standstill because UK, US and EU regulators have raised an eyebrow given the possibility that we are dealing with an operation that violates antitrust laws.
In this sense, we have been able to see how Microsoft is seeking support to close the purchase of Activision Blizzard before the European Commission, while the European body is one of the obstacles that they will have to overcome if they want to. make the purchase effective. And if with this we did not have enough with the soap opera, it seems that now we have a new twist in the history.
The provisional decision of the European Union will be given on April 25 to better study the purchase agreement
To put it in context, it must be said that the European Commission issued an antitrust warning to Microsoft a few weeks ago at the same time that the British and American organizations investigate the purchase agreement. And although Europe should have spoken soon, it seems that the interim decision will take a little longer to be publishedsince in a recent Bloomberg report it has revealed that the European body would have delayed the deadline to issue it to April 25.
While this appears to be an arbitrary move, the truth is that according to this report, the size of the deal It has come to the point that the European regulatory authorities do not want to be in a hurry in making this decision, so it seems that this delay is mainly due to take it easy on studying this agreement.
It should be noted that while the European Commission delays this decision, Microsoft is not idleleading this to that we have been able to see how it has been elaborated a historic agreement with Nintendo which implies that during the next ten years Microsoft titles could reach Japanese consoles. Time will tell how this ends, as it is quite evident that this movement is aimed at subtract arguments from the opposing party from Microsoft on this matter.