The purchase of Activision Blizzard is getting closer every day.
Xbox is giving a lot to talk about these days, since, in what is a usual practice of the company when presenting the Xbox Series models, it has been seen that a new console would have appeared in Phil’s office Spencer, so we could see some new announcement during the next months, being The Game Awards the most striking stage.
Having said all this, and focusing on the current situation of the American company, we are seeing that Xbox is getting closer to making the purchase of Activision Blizzard official, since Brazil has ended up approving it, this being one of the countries that most resisted and that in fact lit the fuse around the problems that were causing this purchase between Sony and Microsoft. And it seems that these are far from over.
The console war is raging around Call of Duty
In this case it seems that everything comes from UK regulatorsfrom which it is stated that the acquisition of Activision Blizzard could reduce competition in the market, thus giving rise to Microsoft hides again in the Game Passspecifically in the actions of Sony to harm its service with different measures, mentioning here that Sony would have blocked the arrival of Xbox Game Pass to PlayStation
This has been stated by Tom Warren of The Verge, who has compiled Microsoft’s response starting with the fact that games coming to Game Pass can be purchased in other stores, so you’re not really limiting the market. In fact, from the American company they affirm that Call of Duty could still be bought on PlayStation. In fact, they even go so far as to throw a poison dart at Sony by mentioning that PlayStation chooses not to add its games in PlayStation Plus.
Microsoft says Sony has “chosen to block Game
Pass from PlayStation” and that it has “elected to protect its revenues from sales of newly released games, rather than offer gamers the choice of accessing them via its subscription, PlayStation Plus.” All a response to UK’s CMA pic.twitter.com/ytOIhLRoIr— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) October 12, 2022
Having said all this, it must be said that the UK CMA had stated on previous occasions that Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard Could Affect Competition on consoles. We will have to see how this soap opera ends, although at least Microsoft can boast of the great benefits of Xbox Game Pass.