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This is just from eyeballing the top results of some Google searching so may not be super accurate, but it looks like the console games market is around $34 billion a year in the US, $11 billion a year in the EU, and under $1 billion a year in the UK.

The merger has been approved by EU and now US regulators.

The UK market might be small enough compared to the US and the EU that Microsoft and Activision might find it worthwhile to just leave the UK console game market if they had to choose between that and not being able to complete the merger.



I would suspect the CMA would view Activision exiting the UK market, if owned by Microsoft, as a major consumer harm.




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