Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick has taken aim at post-Brexit Britain, as it looks increasingly likely the UK's an…
"You think about post-Brexit UK, it's probably the first country where you're seeing a recession and the real, severe consequences of a recession," Kotick said .
"Rishi Sunak has said they'd like to be the Silicon Valley of Europe or of the continent, and if deals like this can't get through, they're not going to be Silicon Valley, they'll be Death Valley." "The FTC, the CMA and the EU don't know our industry, so they're trying to come up to speed and fully understand the industry better," he concluded."I don't think they fully understand it's a free-to-play business, that the Japanese and Chinese companies dominate the industry with Sony and Nintendo who have these huge libraries of intellectual property... I think [the regulators] are a little bit confused as to where competition is today.
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