Google is worried that Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard will affect the ChromeOS experience
CTOnews.com, Nov. 27, according to Politico, Google is not satisfied with Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Although Google is not the most popular player in the game market, the company is also interested in the game industry.
Google believes that Microsoft has deliberately lowered the quality of its Game Pass subscription service on its ChromeOS devices, and with the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Google is worried that games on its ChromeOS platform will be affected.
Foreign media believe that although Google's concerns are different from those of Sony, they are very similar in nature. CTOnews.com learned that Google had decided to abandon its cloud gaming platform Stadia, which is Google's biggest attempt to enter the game market.
Google's main argument revolves around the way it plays games over XGP / PGP on Google's ChromeOS system, which Google says Microsoft has deliberately degraded its performance. This is an interesting argument because Microsoft is also actively laying out its cloud gaming services at this stage, and Xbox cloud games already support Linux and ChromeOS devices.
At present, Activision Blizzard's transaction has been investigated by regulators in eight different countries around the world. As Google now comes forward to express its concerns about the acquisition, the long-term direction of this may be interesting.