Sony fears \u201cbroken features\u201d on future PlayStation CoD titles if Microsoft acquires Activision Microsoft\/SonySony disapproves of Microsoft purchasing Activision and argued future CoD titles on PlayStation could include \u201cbugs and broken features.\u201d CharlieINTEL reported on February 21 that PlayStation, Google, NVIDIA, and other gaming companies spoke to EU regulators, sharing their thoughts on Microsoft\u2019s potential acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Microsoft successfully struck 10-year deals with Nintendo and Nvidia, promising Activision Blizzard titles on their platforms if the deal goes through. However, according to GameIndustry Biz, Sony opposed a 10-year contract to keep CoD on PlayStation. Lulu Cheng Meservey, Activision Blizzard CCO, took to social media and accused Sony of undermining the deal to \u201cprotect its two-decade dominance in gaming.\u201d This comes after a report in early February suggested Sony cut off communication with Microsoft regarding the potential Activision Blizzard merger. Sony labels Microsoft\u2019s offer for CoD on PlayStation \u201cunviable\u201d On March 8, CharlieINTEL reported, \u201cSony\u2019s response to the latest CMA findings has also been shared\u2014 Sony says Microsoft\u2019s offer for CoD on PS+ is \u2018unviable\u2019 and says Microsoft could include \u2018bugs and broken features\u2019 on the PS version to incentivize Xbox purchases.\u201d In the CMA findings, Sony argued, \u201cMicrosoft might release a PlayStation version of Call of Duty where bugs and errors emerge only on the game\u2019s final level or after updates.\u201d \u201cIf it became known that the game\u2019s performance on PlayStation was worse than on Xbox, Call of Duty gamers could decide to switch to Xbox, for fear of playing their favorite game at a second-class or less competitive venue.\u201d Sony is one of several roadblocks still standing in the way of Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard. EU antitrust regulators confirmed a decision by March 23, 2023, whether to clear or block the deal. The UK CMA and US FTC need to make decisions as well. Meservey remains confident in the regulators approving Microsoft\u2019s acquisition, and Xbox head, Phil Spencer also expressed confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sony fears \u201cbroken features\u201d on future PlayStation CoD titles if Microsoft acquires Activision Microsoft\/SonySony disapproves of Microsoft purchasing Activision and argued future CoD titles on PlayStation could include \u201cbugs and broken features.\u201d CharlieINTEL reported on February 21 that PlayStation, Google, NVIDIA, and other gaming companies spoke to EU regulators, sharing their thoughts on Microsoft\u2019s potential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}