The conflict still exists between the two biggest competitors in the history of the gaming industry, Sony and Microsoft, over the latter’s acquisition of Activision. Sony is trying hard to stop the deal before it is completed, while Microsoft is trying hard to prove with evidence that their goal in the deal is not a monopoly.
Since Microsoft announced its intention to acquire Activision for $70 billion, Sony is still to this day trying to stop the deal by explaining to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that the deal is not in the interest of the gaming industry and that Microsoft’s goal is to monopolize the Call of Duty series of shooting games.
Now Sony is coming out with a new allegation in an attempt to stop Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision!
Now Sony is trying to wreck the deal with a new claim that’s both outlandish and hilarious at the same time. According to the site Windows Central Sony said that if the Call of Duty series is available on PlayStation devices, Microsoft will deliberately sabotage copies of the game on PlayStation devices by placing Bugs inside the game. Perhaps this statement from Sony indicates that the Japanese company believes that Microsoft is obliged to make an offer to provide the Call of Duty series on PlayStation devices, and all it will be able to do is sabotage copies of the game on competing devices.
Microsoft is currently working hard to complete the acquisition of Activision by providing offers to provide Activision games, especially Call of Duty, on the rest of the devices, as it submitted an offer to Nintendo and it was approved and another offer to one of the company’s competitors, Nvidia, to provide the famous shooting series on the Nvidia GeForce Now platform And it was approved.
It remains only for Sony to agree to the offers presented by Microsoft to provide the most famous series of shooting games for PlayStation devices, but Sony did not agree to any offer. Among those offers is to provide the series of shooting games for 10 years, and the last offer made to Sony is to provide the Call of Duty series on the PlayStation Plus service since day one, which Sony also rejected.
In any case, Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard has reached its final stages, and there is little left, and sooner or later the deal will be completed. So Sony has to agree to the offers or Call of Duty will be lost from their hands forever.