Deal was originally due to complete yesterday, termination fee raised to a $4.5 billion

  • GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, they’ve offered to sell off the UK game streaming rights to appease UK regulators, but no word on if they’ve gotten a response. They’re lucky they’ve gotten that, but the UK game streaming market is probably so miniscule that Microsoft doesn’t really care anyway. It’s a drop in lake Baikal in terms of the revenue ABK will bring in elsewhere.

    • JeremyT@lemmy.teaisatfour.com
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for that! Hadn’t seen what came of the initial ruling over there. Yeah it will be a few years until streaming is more of a viable option. Latency, stability, and trust aren’t there yet for the general public. Especially after Google killed off stadia.