Gaming News PS5: what if Microsoft forced Sony to reveal its next exclusive games? This time it’s war!
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With the Activision-Blizzard takeover project under way, Microsoft is trying to reason with the FTC, which opposes the operation… To move forward, why not remove the worms from PlayStation?
A few days ago, on January 18, 2023, we celebrated a very special birthday. Microsoft’s year-long acquisition of publisher Activision-Blizzard for $68 billion. A record for the world of video games and technology in general! For all this time, the operation has been progressing, but it is far from complete. To do this, the company needs to get the green light from a whole host of regulatory bodies around the world. To date, several countries have responded, but things are stalling in the United States… The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the local competition police, filed a complaint in December 2022, believing that the control of initial licenses – Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Candy Crush – would make Microsoft too powerful an entity. Since then, Xbox has tried to come out of this bad phase with typical legal defenses.
PlayStation needs to sit down
The latest example comes from journalist Stephen Totilo on Twitter, who shared a brand new FTC case document | Microsoft. Yes, on January 12th and 17th, The tech giant has called on Sony to show up
Confirmation that Microsoft has subpoenaed Sony Interactive Entertainment as it seeks to defend against an FTC claim against MS’s bid for Activision
Sony notes that MS first attempted this on January 12 but had to repeat it on January 17. Sony will likely get an answer on January 27th pic.twitter.com/mWW6tyXML0
— Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) January 23, 2023
Sony in danger? anything !
As noted by our colleagues from Frandroid, the Redmond-based company is likely trying to reassure the FTC about the future of PlayStation, for example by revealing its next exclusive games. Because yes, when Call of Duty pays big, so do titles like “the” God of War Ragnarok (best launch ever from a first-party Sony | 5 million copies sold in one week). On the side of the Japanese company, the challenge will be to reveal as little as possible … In short, business follows.