Sep 1, 2022
Microsoft Activision deal could lessen competition, UK watchdog finds
"Sony, as the industry leader, says it is worried about Call of Duty, but we've said we are committed to making the same game available on the same day on both Xbox and PlayStation. We want people to have more access to games, not less." .Microsoft maintains that its principal interest in the planned acquisition is Activision Blizzard's expertise in mobile gaming. The firm's head of gaming, Phil Spencer, told Bloomberg that "The biggest gaming platform on the planet is mobile phones" an area in which Microsoft lacked expertise. Currently Activision games can be played on both Xbox and rival PlayStation consoles, but the proposed takeover have led some to speculate that more games might become Xbox exclusives. Microsoft's Phil Spencer says what he's really interested in now is the mobile gaming market, and Activision also happens to own Candy Crush Saga - a simple, ten year old game which remains one of the most popular mobile games of all time. Some independent game-makers have also been worried they might be marginalised in Microsoft's Netflix-like game subscription service Game Pass if the deal went through, and the firm began favouring its own titles.
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