It doesn't matter he could still have influenced people who are part of the decision process.

That's now how courts work. He is an employee of the same organization, and has direct contact with members who are undertaking this review.

"My Playstation" shows bias, and he's already stated the outcome of a case before the investigation occurs by stating "working to ensure that you will still be able to play Call of Duty on other consoles".

He's just handed Microsoft a huge win. Wonder how much they paid him for that :P

Lol clearly you are uneducated about the law. Orchard is right if the EU rejects it they can use this as one of their bullet points to appeal the decision. Why do you think usually organizations don’t make public comments when an investigation is happening. Which is why I said the EU commission clearly is wanting attention.

Yeah, this could open a huge can of worms for all the other things they've ruled upon in the past.

Nothing to desperately want at all. I've been clear time and time again that I think this deal should (and will) go through - and COD should (and will) stay on PS.

Give it a rest. Is opinion is well know here. He will always defend Microsoft at any cost. Even in taking games that for decades were played by millions of sony gamers and still are. From a company that just can't compete in videogaming. Can't create amazing games, well let's buy they all. It's OK.

This deal shouldn't never go through if he was gamer. Never. No gamers wants to take games from other gamers. No matter if it was Sony or Nintendo. Buying huge publisher to force gamers in to trash services... What's next when this deal doesn't work? Well for a trillion dollar company the answer is easy. Another publisher and another.

They really think that a potentially biased or influential person means the ruling would benefit MS.. not how it works. You don't get to point out someone's bias and the judge just goes, "yeah I guess, that must mean we should ignore facts and proper review and the damages to the market when this entity would be purchased".

What a dumb comment. You’re comparing a janitor to someone who works in the EU commission in some degree? His comment comes off bias simple because of his position and he could potentially sway people who DO work on the commission. It’s just a bad look and a comment he should have kept to himself.

And only a fanboy would care if this deal goes through or not. I personally couldn’t careless

@speak

Nope, only a fan of gaming wouldn't want it going through, nothing good can come from MS owning everything, it just seems you're an xbox fanboy pretending not to be. I know im neutral in the console wars because I don't even own a playstation 5 or xbox, I only have a pc, but I still see the big picture like a lot of others do.

Even stevie wonder can see MS is bad for gaming and MS having a monopoly in gaming is about as bad as a scenario as you can get.

How is MS in the position that they are in today if everything they do is wrong? Lol clearly people at MS know more about how to run’s business than you do.

They're good at making Operating Systems, but their gaming division has never turned a profit since its inception. That should explain things clearly enough. To be fair, they don't have the best track record when asked to create anything outside of systems and controllers. All these big acquisitions only help to illustrate their deseration in the industry that you're so convince they know so much about. Owning an XB every generation has given me 1st hand experience of their lack of effort and I wouldn't trust them with any company at this point.

@SurgicalMenace

Well I wouldn't say good. They simply came into a booming market at the exact right moment. Windows has notoriously had terrible OS's with anfew good ones in there. But, they just keep having strange issues and updates mess up features and drivers all the time. Their console OS has been more heavy weight than others in the past, not sure how bloated it is this gen. They're really not as talented as their revenue will tell.

@SPEAKxTHExTRUTH

It's not because their console itself got them there. Any other business would have bailed from how long it took XBox to finally profit. You don't need to have business skills to point out their mismanagement of developers, games, and consoles. We see developers go downhill, shutdown, restricted, forced to work on projects they don't want, and we have the most notorious hardware failure rate ever under their management. Don't bring up tired arguments like that. It's just a petty way to try and end an argument when you have nothing to argue your side.