Cramer has justified his letter by pointing out that the game industry has a $20.6 million impact on North Dakota’s economy and is responsible for 221 jobs, with plenty of room for growth over the next ten years. He added that PlayStation’s lobbying of the Federal Trade Commission to try to prevent Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard is an example of “anticompetitive conduct”.
Of course, none of this is likely to go anywhere and is all just part of a side-show in the trillion-dollar Microsoft’s unprecedented acquisition of one of the biggest publishers in the world.
[source axios.com]