Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida may have just handed Microsoft a golden assist in its ABK merger case by downplaying the importance of cloud gaming
A brief statement shared by Sony CEO and president Kenichiro Yoshida with the Financial Times may be seen as an indirect assist to Microsoft’s effort to clear the cloud gaming market competition concerns that led the UK regulator to block the acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
In the quote reported by the FT, the Sony CEO downplays the threat the cloud gaming market poses to consoles, pointing out technical challenges like latency.
I think the cloud itself is an amazing business model, but when it comes to games, the technical difficulties are high. So there will be challenges to cloud gaming, but we want to take on those challenges.
Interestingly, Sony CEO and president Kenichiro Yoshida struck a deal with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in May 2019, when the two companies signed a strategic partnership to collaborate on cloud-based solutions for gaming and AI.
