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Jannis Bruehl and Max Muth
In October there was banging behind the closed doors of the British Markets Inspectorate in London. On that day, three video game consoles faced the cartel guards: an Xbox from Microsoft, a Playstation from Sony, a Switch from Nintendo. Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s gaming boss, brought it with him, it reports the New York Times. He demonstrated to the skeptical supervisors that individual games run on different consoles. He wanted to demonstrate: The market works, let’s please buy Activision Blizzard for 69 billion dollars! Because this deal is currently being examined worldwide by authorities such as the British market supervisory authority.