Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan has stated that he does not believe that Microsoft’s cloud service for Xbox, Game Passbe a competition for the console you develop, PlayStation.
According to statements by people close to the company and collected by Insider Gamingthe manager believes that the figures of the subscription platform of its main competitor “they are getting lower”.
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“When we consider Game Pass, we’ve sold more PlayStation 5 (PS5) in two years than they’ve collected in subscribers and they’ve been doing it for six or seven years.”, commented the CEO of the Japanese company, according to these people related to the company.
In this way, the CEO of Sony Interactive wanted to demonstrate that the success of the console that he develops cannot be compared to the payment platform and video games in the cloud Xbox Game Pass.
These statements are in contrast to everything that happened as a result of the Xbox manufacturer announces its intention to buy Activision Blizzarddeveloper of successful franchises such as Call of Duty.
This has become the main concern of the Japanese manufacturer, which accuses Microsoft of encourage possible unfair competition if the company of the video game publisher is finally formalized.
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Ryan’s remarks come days after the tech giant and Activision Blizzard defended that this acquisition would not impair competitionafter the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a formal lawsuit to block the transaction, valued at 69,000 million dollars (65,756 million euros).