The CMA claims it blocked the deal to protect the "cloud gaming market," which represents roughly 2% of the overall gaming industry footprint according to estimates. Indeed, Microsoft, which the CMA itself says has 60% of the UK cloud gaming market, only has server capacity to provide bandwidth for a minuscule 5,000 customers concurrently. By the CMA's own figures, the deal would impact less than 10,000 people at any given time.

不能否認微軟目前佔據英國雲端遊戲市場的60%，也是唯一一個有足夠的伺服器頻寬支持5000人同時在線的公司，但5000人這數字相對整體遊戲市場極為微小。