Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, says his company’s merger with Microsoft won’t hurt PlayStation users. We tell you more details, below!
Bobby Kotickthe CEO of Activision Blizzard and one of the biggest beneficiaries of the possible merger between his company and Microsoft, advocated the purchase once again. On this occasion he said that the Sony console will have call of dutyYes, but that’s just an excuse because PlayStation doesn’t even care about the franchise. According to him, the Japanese just want to block the acquisition.
PlayStation comes from complaining to regulatory bodies around the world saying that Microsoft could be tempted to make a less good Call of Duty for its platform. Kotick responded to these accusations directly in a post on stack.
“We all know that our passionate gamers will be the first to hold Microsoft accountable for keeping their promises of content parity and quality.,” Kotick said. “And, all of us who work so hard to do the best in our industry care too much about our players to release inferior versions of our games. Sony even admitted that it doesn’t really care about the Call of Duty fix — they just want to prevent the merger from happening.“.
One more time, Kotick swore that Activision Blizzard bring your experiences to PlayStation and that he will not allow the actions of sony negatively impact their decades-long strategic alliance. The deal for the acquisition is going relatively well so far, and despite the doubts on the European fronts, it seems that both the European Union and the United Kingdom are of the opinion that the acquisition will not create a monopoly in the market. On the Japanese front, the acquisition is already approved.
As far as the United States is concerned, the Federal Exchange Commission wants more information regarding what the future of exclusives of zenimaxsaying that Microsoft it has already reneged on its promises to keep games cross-platform. Strictly, the company never promised that, but Starfield specifically will be exclusive to consoles of XboxFor example.