Sony's complaints got short shrift in Brazil.
, and still isn't on the Nintendo Switch, and it's not like either of those platforms is gasping for air.
"The absence of Call of Duty in recent years," says the CADE report,"did not prevent Steam from occupying a leading position in the ranking of digital stores," especially in the Brazilian market. As for the Switch, CADE says that"the relevance of Activision Blizzard games" to the platform's success is"minimal". ).
So no matter how much the Microsoft/Activision deal might threaten Sony's position, it's a specific risk to one company, not a threat to the Brazilian games market as a whole. That gets it Brazil's stamp of approval, and one more hurdle to Microsoft's $68 billion acquisition has fallen. That's not the end of it, of course: the UK has yet to conclude its in-depth investigation into the, and many more countries have to reach decisions, too.