2023-12-20 09:50:35
We’ve been covering this every week for nearly two years, but in October Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard King for nearly $69 billion. Sony fought hard to block the deal, and for seemingly good reasons.
Due to the recent hack of Insomniac, now There are leaked documents Shows Sony is worried about Microsoft after acquisition completes Will “transcend” Playstation.The main one, of course, is Call of Duty, which Sony calls “Incredible strategic value”and wrote that they feared that the series being added to Game Pass in the future would “disrupt and threaten Console Games and Game Subscription Markets”adding that this is a “huge threat to Playstation Plus.”
As we previously reported, Microsoft is currently planning to launch a mobile storefront and already owns Battle.net, something Sony also sees as worrisome and admits to their own tentpole “Outdated and lagging behind the competition.”
The releases appear to predate a decade-long agreement between Microsoft and Sony to continue the Call of Duty series on Playstation, but Sony had previously been paying Activision for exclusive deals and content for the series. Sony will no longer have these benefits since the acquisition, and we could imagine Xbox being bundled and marketed with Call of Duty, and the series being added to Game Pass starting in 2024.
Sony is apparently thinking about this too, writing “Using time and differences in play as weapons”“Call of Duty” viewers may move from Playstation to Xbox in the future.
How big of an impact do you expect all this to have in a few years?
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