In the current spat over its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s gaming CEO has declared that Sony’s growth plan is to make the Xbox smaller. Phil Spencer made the announcement during an interview with the podcast Second Request in which the executive claimed that Sony was “the only prominent opponent of the [Microsoft Activision] act. Sony is attempting to protect its dominance on the console. They’re growing by pushing the Xbox smaller, Spencer said.
[Sony] has a totally different perspective of the industry than we do. They don’t ship their games on the day and date on PC, they don’t add their games to their subscription when they launch their games. Modern Warfare II + Warzone 2.0 – PlayStation Advantage Trailer.
The ongoing fight over the deal, which would see Microsoft take over the games industry’s biggest third-party provider, has met with a significant competitor from both Sony and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic.
On Thursday, U.S. controllers said they were attempting to block the $68.7 billion deal because they acknowledged it would allow Microsoft to create “competitors” for its Xbox consoles and subscription content and cloud computing business. to “stop” games. Sony is having the dialogue around why the deal shouldn’t go through to defend its dominant position on console, so they’re moving with Call of Duty, Spencer told Second Appeal.
The world’s biggest console maker is objecting to the one franchise we’ve said will persist to ship on the platform. It’s an offer that customers profit from through choice and access. Call of Duty, the monolithic shooter franchise that regularly beats console game bestseller lists, could theoretically become premier to Microsoft platforms after this deal.
Since reporting Microsoft’s intent to acquire Activision Blizzard, however, the company has promised that it won’t lock down the game for at least a decade. Much of the controversy surrounding Microsoft’s acquisition rotates around Call of Duty, which Sony claims is being withheld in some way.
Last week, Microsoft President Brad Smith provided more details on the company’s offer to keep the Call of Duty franchise on PlayStation in an editorial in The Wall Street Journal. Spencer then took to Twitter to declare Microsoft was committed to carrying the franchise back to Nintendo consoles after a decade-long absence.
The last Call of Duty game to be cast on a Nintendo system was the Wii U version of Call of Duty: Ghosts, which was released in 2013 and permitted players to aim using a Wii Remote with motion management.
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