Calling cloud gaming ‘new and immature’ might be a reach but it isn’t far off the mark, though not for the reasons Microsoft is giving.
There has been a lot of movement in the cloud gaming space in the last few months, including the shuttering of Google Stadia . This has led Microsoft to call cloud gaming a “new and immature technology” in a recent filing that refutes claims made by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), even though Microsoft seems to be all in on cloud gaming and steaming ahead with the Activision-Blizzard purchase.Earlier in October, we covered the phase one investigation by the CMA regarding Microsoft’s acquisition of the Activision Blizzard merger. With that investigation, there were concerns that Microsoft would take popular games like Call of Duty and make them Xbox exclusives. Besides this, though, there were also concerns that this acquisition would help Microsoft snuff out the competition in the cloud-gaming market.
