Phil Spencer says 'Xbox will exist' even if its proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition is blocked. According to Spencer, the deal is not 'some linchpin to the long term'.
was in the UK this week for talks with the Competition and Markets Authority, following a European Commission hearing in which it defended the proposed deal amid concerns it could harm competition, particularly if it were to make games like Call of Duty exclusive to its platform.
The CMA is in the middle of an in-depth investigation into the acquisition, while it also faces challenges from the European Commission and the US FTC. Although the deal would be by far Microsoft’s biggest ever acquisition, the corporation makes far more from non-gaming products such as Windows, Office and its cloud services.asked Spencer what would happen to Xbox should such an important acquisition be blocked by regulators, to which he responded that the gaming business was not dependent on its completion.
“This is an important acquisition for us. It’s not some linchpin to the long term — Xbox will exist if this deal doesn’t go through,” he said. Much of regulators’ concerns around the Activision Blizzard deal have focused on how it could allegedly
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