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微软收购动视暴雪交易在美国的首次预审听证会将于1月3日举行，因为美国反垄断机构联邦贸易委员会在上个月发起诉讼并要求法官终止这笔交易。
FTC的成员表示，因为微软自愿作出让步，想要说服法官阻止这笔交易将成为一场艰苦的战斗，路透社还在报道中写道，FTC的行为基本可以理解成是美国政府层面在展示对于反垄断的强硬态度。
与此同时，FTC也在等待CMA和欧盟的裁决。
© The first preliminary hearing in a legal dispute between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Microsoft regarding the acquisition of Activision Blizzard is scheduled for Tuesday, January 3, 2023, Reuters reported. As you probably already know, the US Antitrust Service has every intention of blocking this maneuver and has decided to go to court against Redmon’s company to do this. Activision’s $69 billion acquisition of Blizzard guarantees Xbox exclusive access to some of the strongest franchises on the market, most notably Call of Duty, according to the FTC, hurting competition in the console market by restricting or denying rights to certain games and content on Sony platforms. PlayStation and Nintendo. In response, Microsoft has said that both gamers and gaming companies will benefit from this maneuver, and is even ready to sign a legally binding agreement with the FTC in which it commits to publish Call of Duty on competing consoles for ten years. The concessions offered by Microsoft are one of the main reasons many market analysts believe blocking the Activision acquisition of Blizzard will not be easy for the FTC. In the meantime, we are also awaiting verdicts from the CMA and the European Union, which, if negative, could finally jeopardize this maneuver. In any case, next week’s preliminary hearing may be just the first in a long line of steps before a final verdict is reached in court. Microsoft intends to complete the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by the end of June 2023, but the deadline may increase precisely because of this lawsuit by the FTC.