Phil Spencer, Jim Ryan, Bobby Kotick & More Will Testify at FTC vs Microsoft & Activision Hearing

The endless saga of the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft will see its climax with an all-star cast including Phil Spencer, Jim Ryan, Bobby Kotick, Satya Nadella, Sarah Bond, and More. Executives from Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and more will testify in the Microsoft vs FTC hearing.

Today the court has published the full list of witnesses and the reasons why each has been summoned.

[Magog]

Diablo 5 console exclusive premiere! Now with 10 times the microtransactions!

[jznrpg]

Don’t forget 30$ Skins are now 100$ !

[italiangamer]

Special referee: the rattle snake STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN!!!!!

[NotoriousWhiz]

*duuuuuuum* time to play the game
*duuuuuuum* time to play the gaaaaaaaaaame

[Redgrave]

*pulls off bench wig* IT WAS ME AUSTIN!

JR: aw sonofabitch

[Yui_Suzumiya]

It's gonna be a slobberknocker!

[TheColbertinator]

Perfect opportunity to gather them up and toss them into a Rancor pit

[blackblades]

Interesting

[GamingSinceForever]

If Jim Ryan is asked to testify it must mean that the FTC has an issue with console market share and not the cloud.

This is about to get ugly again.

[Rude-ro]

I’ll just leave this here…

https://www.axios.com/2023/...

[Kayser81]

I will leave that here :
https://twitter.com/stephen...
which he apologized to the article and tweets .

[Mr_cheese]

@kayser

Ah yes, the apology. All is forgiven then and that no longer the aim...

[Sonic1881]

I don't know about that. But what I'm interested in is that Phil Spencer has to talked about the Bethesda and Zenimax Acquisition and I wanna know how will he answer that?. Because Microsoft did say before the zenimax deal went through it wasn’t about exclusives and that Bethesda games wouldn’t be pulled, but really what they meant was they wouldn’t pull the games already on PlayStation and Nintendo and future games would be exclusive. Shady wording imo. They're going to do the same thing with the Blizzard deal. I'm surprised a lot of these gamer's can't see that. It's comical and easy to figure out TBH. I'm thinking the FTC will try to bring that up and use the email '(Lawyers: Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to eliminate PlayStation) to take Sony out of the gaming business proves that's what they were trying to do all along

[AmUnRa]

Ore perhaps the console market AND the Cloud....

[Extermin8or3_]

Microsoft have called Jim Ryan as a witness aswell....

[FallenAngel1984]

Spending more effort on this deal than making quality games

[GamingSinceForever]

Supposedly if this deal passes that will take care of itself. Especially if they go exclusive with the games.

[IamFrasierCrane]

Key word being quality. Buying Activision isn’t going to fix that.

[Kornholic]

How so?

Xbox doesn't get more games from the acquisitions. The games used to be multiplatform games that would have released on Xbox regardless.

By making them exclusives, MS isn't making more games on Xbox. They are just reducing the amount of former multiplatform titles on other platforms.

It's a lazy trick.

[King_Noctis]

Maybe you had missed the last Xbox show?

[Reaper22_]

This deal is gonna happen. There really nothing they can do but stall it for a while but eventually it's gonna get done.

[tay8701]

If they grant the injunction, the deal is dead.

[PhillyDonJawn]

Oh yeah, it's gotten good. Round 12. Place ya bets.

[Sonic1881]

Why does Phil Spencer have to talk about the Bethesda acquisition and answer why they acquired them? He better be careful on how it answer that question

[GhostScholar]

Anyone besides me wish this was gonna be televised?

[goldwyncq]

It ends with Phil Spencer and Jim Ryan fighting with their shirts off on the rooftop of a tall building.

[King_Noctis]

Whoever throw the other off the building first wins custody of Activision Blizzard.

[Ashunderfire86]

🗣️ Finish him!!!! Donanaaaa!!!! Punch💪 💥 Ahhhhh!!!! 😵😵😵 Phil Spencer Wins!!! Fatality!

[iNcRiMiNaTi]

Sounds like the end of mgs4 with snake vs ocelot