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The purchase of Activision Blizzard seems to be getting closer, especially after the CMA updated its preliminary conclusions just a few days ago, ensuring that the acquisition of the company by Microsoft would not negatively affect competition. Well, just a few days later, we have been able to see one of the last concessions requested by Sony before the report issued by the CMAand that would have PS VR 2 on Xbox as its protagonist.
As we can see in the official CMA document from a few weeks ago, where it showed an update of the arguments issued by Microsoft and Sony in the investigation process of the purchase of the parents of Call of Duty, there is an element that stands out above the rest. On the third page of the document, we can see how mention is made of some of the proposals that Sony has made with a view to what could be used to approve the purchase, where mention is made of the VR of the Japanese.
Sony would have asked for PS VR 2 support on Xbox, or at least Activision Blizzard titles
As we all know, Sony is currently the company that is betting the most on virtual reality on consoles. This has led to the Japanese strategy starting by squeezing a market that is currently led by Meta, and one of the ways to do it would be through the approval of the purchase of Activision Blizzard. Although the excerpt itself appears removed, mention is made of PS VR 2 in the documentwhich could mean several things.
For one, Sony may be asking for the possibility of us seeing PS VR 2 on Xbox. In this way, Sony would considerably increase the number of users who could make the leap to its virtual reality, while Xbox would receive the expected technology, which they are not currently working on, as Phil Spencer has stated on occasion. .
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On the other hand, you may simply be asked to there is support from Xbox to PS VR 2 with some games In this case, there would be no talk of Sony’s virtual reality glasses being compatible with Microsoft consoles, but that studios like Activision Blizzard would be “obliged” to develop games or versions of some of them adapted to the company’s VR helmet. .
It is still early to know if any of this will happen, but there is no doubt that it would be something really interesting to see in either of its two aspects. In the first case, why?It would be curious to see PS VR 2 on Xbox, which would imply the compatibility of a peripheral from one company in the consoles of the other; and in the second because despite owning the studios, Microsoft would be making “exclusive” developments (nothing prevents them from coming out on PC) for Sony.