As gaming demand for hardware performance gradually increased, the concept of “cloud gaming” was gradually recognized by players, and major companies, including Microsoft and NVIDIA, began experimenting with building their own cloud gaming platforms.

However, Activision Blizzard seems to have its own opinion on the cloud gaming model.

On pages 8 to 9 of a UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) document called “Activision Blizzard's Response to Preliminary Findings”Activision Blizzard elaborated on its view that “cloud gaming will be replaced by local games.”

According to Activision Blizzard,The computing power of consumer electronics hardware, such as mobile phones, is developing so fast that all forms of local processing have increasingly powerful processing capabilities.

In particular, among mobile phones, mobile games that run locally have been greatly improved in terms of consumer experience quality, and the performance of mobile phones on the market is powerful enough to even run games that are comparable to the image quality of home consoles.

As a result,Cloud gaming will gradually become inefficient, unnecessary, and unpopular.

What's interesting, however, is that Microsoft is one of the main promoters of cloud gaming. Its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate service provides hundreds of cloud games that can be played for free on PCs, mobile phones, and even TV platforms after a subscription.

As a result,It is worth looking forward to how the latter's position will change after Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard.