“We will remain focused on ensuring that ‘Call of Duty’ remains available on more platforms and for more consumers than ever before,” tweeted Microsoft President Brad Smith. Sony originally rejected Microsoft’s deal to keep “Call of Duty” on the PlayStation platform for the next decade. In fact, Sony Interactive Entertainment chief Jim Ryan was more concerned with getting the Xbox-Activion deal canceled than accepting Microsoft’s deal to keep the hit franchise on PlayStation.
From Day One of this acquisition, we’ve been committed to addressing the concerns of regulators, platform and game developers, and consumers. Even after we cross the finish line for this deal’s approval, we will remain focused on ensuring that Call of Duty remains available on… https://t.co/hMWjC58wRi
— Brad Smith (@BradSmi) July 16, 2023
“I don’t want a new ‘Call of Duty’ deal. I just want to block your merger,” Ryan was quoted as saying by Activision spokesperson Lulu Cheng Meservey. But it appears that both parties have resolved their differences, days after the blockbuster acquisition was finally cleared by the U.S. FTC.
The saga is far from over for Microsoft, though. The FTC has announced that it will appeal the court’s ruling, while Microsoft also quickly announced that it will challenge the regulatory body in its bid to block the deal. The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority, on the other hand, has extended the deadline to August 29 to give its verdict on the deal. But now that Sony, the most high-profile opponent of the acquisition, has inked a deal covering the most hotly-contested property, it is quite likely that the U.K.’s competition regulator will also give its nod to the acquisition owing to the dramatically changed circumstances.
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