An agreement between Sony and Activision would prevent the arrival of Call of Duty to Xbox Game Pass, according to Microsoft

microsoft has accused Sony Y ActivisionBlizzard of having formalized an agreement that would prevent the arrival of deliveries of Call Of Duty to your subscription service GamePass “for several years”.

The technology company has issued a response to the decision of the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the body in charge of investigating the purchase of Activision by Microsoft and accepting or denying the acquisition.

At the beginning of last January, Microsoft reached an agreement to acquire Activision Blizzard for around 60.3 billion dollars, a transaction that has generated constant discussion between the American technology company and the Japanese manufacturer.

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This is because Microsoft makes the Xbox console, which is listed as direct competition to Sony’s product, PlayStation. Hence, this technology firm is suspicious of this purchase, for fear of a possible monopoly in the gaming fieldwith the Call of Duty franchise at the center of it all.

Over the last few months there have been several crossings of accusations. For example, in August, Microsoft said that Sony had paid for blocking rights, which prevent developers from including their games on the Game Pass service.

More recently, Microsoft again pointed to Sony, assuring that the Japanese manufacturer had prevented the arrival of its Xbox Game Pass subscription service on the PlayStation console.

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This latest accusation has occurred within the framework of the second investigation of the CMA, which will conclude shortly to present its conclusions on March 1. Also in these circumstances, Microsoft has issued a response to the decision of this body to transfer the review of the purchase to a second phase due to possible damage to its main competitor.

In the first place, Microsoft assures that “it trusts that, after an in-depth review, the CMA will conclude that there is no possibility that the transaction will cause a substantial decrease in competition in any market”, as it points out in this document.

Next, the company assures that it plans to make Call Of Duty available “for more players in more formats” and charges against Sony by recalling that “PlayStation has been the largest platform for more than 20 years, with a base of 150 million consoles , which makes it bigger” than yours, Xbox.

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Another of the arguments that Microsoft exposes in favor of the green light for this purchase focuses on the economic model that feeds it, since in this writing it ensures that subscriptions in multiple games “represent just one of many monetization models” which it makes use of.

With this, the American company has revealed that it could not bring the video games of the famous franchise to its subscription due to an agreement between Activision and Sony, which would restrict the possibility of bringing this saga to Game Pass “for several years”.

This clause between the two companies would be maintained despite the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and this would have been underlined by the CEO of Microsoft Gaming and head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, through Twitter shortly after the announcement of the purchase.

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“I had good conversations with Sony leaders this week. I confirmed our intention to honor all existing agreements following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard and our desire to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation.”then wrote the director.

This promise was also made in writing, as Spencer would have sent a letter to his PlayStation counterpart, Jim Ryan, in which he promised that the saga could remain. “many more years” on your console.

Source: Elcomercio

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