Sony's concerned Call of Duty will be worse on PlayStation if Microsoft buys Activision | Engadget

, Call of Duty is most often purchased in just the first few weeks of release. If it became known that the game’s performance on PlayStation was worse than on Xbox, Call of Duty gamers could decide to switch to Xbox, for fear of playing their favourite game at a second-class or less competitive venue."

Sony claims there wouldn't be a viable way for it or the CMA to assess how"Microsoft chooses to allocate its resources and the quality/quantity of engineers it devotes to the PlayStation version of Call of Duty to ensure that SIE would be treated fairly and equally." Degrading the quality of Call of Duty on PlayStation, intentionally or not, perhaps wouldn't be the wisest course of action, aspoints out.

In any case, Microsoft noted in its latest response to the CMA that it has offered to"provide Sony with parity on release date, content, features, upgrades, quality and playability with the Xbox platform." That is, if Sony accepts Microsoft's proposed 10-year agreement to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation. Microsoft would be willing to agree to a third-party assessor to oversee the platform parity.

Sony's letter reiterates its concern that Microsoft would make Call of Duty a Game Pass exclusive and away from PlayStation. Again, that's something Microsoft has refuted. “As we have said all along: it makes zero business sense to take Call of Duty off of PlayStation,” Microsoft Competition Law Group corporate vice president Rima Alaily recently toldIt will be a while yet before we know for sure whether Microsoft will be allowed to buy Activision Blizzard.

Other major regulators have yet to rubberstamp the takeover, including in the US, where the Federal Trade Commission has

Source: Gaming Daily Report (gamingdailyreport.net)

block the deal. make microsoft compete. microsoft should not be allowed to pay $69 billion to buy anything. we dont want microsoft controlling how much developers get paid, which games get made.... its all wrong netflix is not good for the film industry.

same rules, mob rules

Any big game studio being bought out by console makers fucking sucks tbh

COD is not like it was before, I would prefer Sony to come back with Resistance, it has story, cooperative and multiplayer mode.

Ok! That doesn't make Sony sound rational now. They are sounding more desperate to stop the deal at any cost.

No, Sony is not concerned about that. They fear the stranglehold they have on console gaming is slipping.

Sony now...

microsoft is buying everything, for decades

This is like the most desperate of attempts by this point

Too bad. Sony screwed Microsoft for years all the way back when Madden and GTA was a PS exclusive.

Sony is a clown company.

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