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CTOnews.com, March 26 (Xinhua) Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard has sparked a debate between Sony and Microsoft, but one detail may be overlooked: Activision Blizzard's view of cloud games is completely different from Microsoft's.

Activision Blizzard has come up with an interesting theory that cloud games will be replaced by the power of local processing.

According to CTOnews.com, in a document called Activision Blizzard's response to preliminary findings from the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Activision Blizzard elaborated on pages 8 to 9 why it believed that "cloud games will be replaced by local processing capabilities."

They believe that the computing power of consumer electronics hardware-- especially mobile phones-- is growing so fast that all forms of local processing, such as smart TVs, laptops, tablets and mobile phones, are becoming more and more powerful. makes streaming inefficient, unnecessary and unpopular.

Activision Blizzard further elaborated on their views on page 10, in particular, they have high hopes for the enhanced capabilities of smartphones: mobile games run locally have greatly improved the quality of the consumer experience. And the performance of mobile phones on the market is powerful enough to run games comparable to the picture quality of home consoles.

Microsoft is an active promoter of cloud games, offering hundreds of high-quality games through Xbox Game Pass Ultimate that can be streamed on supported PC, consoles, phones, tablets and some Samsung smart TVs. They believe that cloud games allow players to enjoy host-level games on their existing devices, skip installation and download, save storage space, and switch seamlessly across devices.

After the deal is completed, it will be an interesting question for Microsoft to resolve the differences between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard over cloud games.

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