Microsoft is trying to take over Activision Blizzard. However, Sony is trying to stop this movement. On the occasion of this dispute, the Japanese revealed that they wanted to create Play station 6 (unless the denomination is suddenly changed). However, the date has been removed from publicly available records. However, much can be deduced from the content of the entire paragraph.
PlayStation 6 in five or six years?
In the CMA documents (British Competition Authority) of October 28, Sony mentions the next generation consular in the context of Call of Duty.
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Sony – opposition to the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft – used the third most profitable gaming brand in history, i.e. Call of Duty. If there is a merger, it will go to Microsoft, which, according to the Japanese, will receive PlayStation customers this way.
Microsoft defended that Sony was overvaluing the brand, but offered them to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for another 10 years. Such an offer – WG “New York Times” It was supposed to arrive on November 11th. The precedents, however, were not so favourable.
CMA filings show that Microsoft initially offered to keep Games Activision on PlayStation by 2027. Microsoft was to say they planned to release Call of Duty on PlayStation as long as “as long as it pays off.” According to Sony, it is 2027 that marks this moment, because the company plans to release the next generation of consoles… and here is the date, but it has been hidden in the documents.
Sony points out that with the launch of PlayStation 6 and the simultaneous loss of rights to Activision games, including Call of Duty, the Japanese brand will be “extremely exposed” to the loss of customers and market competitiveness.
Lining up the loss of rights to Call of Duty and the premiere of the next generation of PlayStation suggests it new consular it will appear in 2027 or 2028. This would be consistent with the release cycle of subsequent console generations, appearing at 6-7 year intervals. Piers Harding-Rolls, a gaming analyst who came across this information, suggests that it could be 2028 (8 years after Before PS5), due to the slow start of the current generation. This happened during a pandemic, which reduced the availability of processors, and therefore buying a new generation console is not as easy as in previous generations.
What’s next for Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard?
16 countries have decided to take a look at the merger. So far only Saudi Arabia and Brazil have agreed. Microsoft also expects Serbia to give its consent soon.
The UK, on the other hand, said it needed to look into the matter further. The problem is, among other things, the issue of game streaming. In September, Brits expressed concern that the combined game libraries of Microsoft and activision Blizzard will give the company an “unmatched edge” over competitors in the streaming market. However, Microsoft refutes these claims and claims that there will be nothing to gain from the merger in this regard, since Activision Blizzard streaming does not support their cloud technology, Azure.
Microsoft itself complains that the acquisition is much more difficult than it was four years ago, when – in their view – no one would look into the transaction in such depth. In the case of the LinkedIn takeover in 2016, the consent of not 16, but only six governments was required. If the merger fails, Microsoft will have to pay Activision Blizzard 3 billion dollars. Both companies, however, have an interest in closing the transaction. Microsoft wants to become an even bigger player in the market and Activision wants to get rid of the reputational scratch that appeared last year, when the company was accused of allowing bullying and harassment.
