The tone has risen in exchanges between Microsoft and opponents of the Activision-Blizzard takeover. After the FTC announced that it wanted to legally prevent the takeover, it was the management of Microsoft Gaming that asserted its position. First, about Brad Smith, Vice President of Microsoft, who a “total trust”
Sony is trying to protect its console dominance. They expand by making the Xbox smaller. They have a very different vision of the industry than we do. They don’t release their games on PC day by day, they don’t add their games to their subscription when they launch their games.
Negotiations over the deal, which would see Microsoft taking control of the industry’s largest third-party vendor, have met with fierce opposition from Sony and regulators. Very quickly, fears focused on the franchise call of Duty. Which Spencer has a hard time explaining given the Seattle giant’s efforts to get the license.
The world’s largest console maker is objecting to the only franchise we said will continue to be distributed on the platform. It’s a deal that benefits players through choice and access.
Microsoft has already written to Nintendo and Valve to provide the license for 10 years if the takeover goes through. Verbal commitments were also made immediately after the takeover was announced.
