The war for this war saga continues its course.
It has not been an easy week for the Japanese, since the latest news from the soap opera for the purchase of Activision Blizzard could cause PlayStation to have to reveal its internal documents regarding the blocking of games to Xbox Game Pass to Microsoft, which could come from the hand of the perfect and ultimate defense for the American company in order to argue that the purchase of Activision Blizzard would not imply any infringement or imbalance to competition, since this would be exercising other activities to promote it in their favour.
Be that as it may, and while waiting for this to be confirmed and denied, it must be said that the name of Call of Duty has once again come to the fore, being so Sony is concerned about the future of the versions of the saga on PlayStationwhich has led them to change their arguments in a certain sense, since if before they said that more games in the saga would not arrive, now they point out that these will come in poor quality.
Sony claims that Call of Duty games could arrive full of errors and bugs on PlayStation if the purchase goes through
It should be noted that for months we have been able to see that Sony argued that the purchase would mean that Call of Duty would not come to PlayStation, thus creating a fairly large imbalance due to the media coverage of this franchise. However, the multiple arguments and acts of Microsoft to demonstrate that this will not happen, which has led them to a historic agreement with Nintendo, it seems that they have managed to change your argumentespecially based on the fact that the Americans have offered Sony several times to sign the same agreement, receiving only the refusal of Sony.
In any case, the script twist that no one expected is that now Sony claims Microsoft could sabotage the competition launching worse versions of Call of Duty on the different PlayStation consoles, while these titles could hit the market with more errors and bugs that hinder the game experience and which are not fixed until later updates, so they would lose a large share of the market based on the fact that many players they usually buy Call of Duty in its first weekbeing word of mouth what makes their titles continue to sell.
Releasing buggy Call of Duty on PlayStation would be counterproductive to the series as a whole
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, new installment of the saga
It should be noted that all these concerns have been passed on to the UK regulator, which has also been in the news recently because it has been one of the protagonists with Microsoft’s new argument about whether or not to raise the price of Xbox. Game Pass after purchasing Activision Blizzard.
In fact, this same body even went so far as to say that to approve the purchase, Call of Duty must first be sold to a third party or remove it from the operation, this being proof of the enormous importance that Call of Duty enjoys at the media level. Needless to say that Xbox has rejected this suggestion at the same time that they have repeatedly said that cutting off PlayStation access to Call of Duty would not make any commercial sense.
On the other hand, regarding the errors that the PlayStation versions could bring, it is an argument that it makes no sensesince, after all, if the word gets out that Call of Duty arrives on the market with bugs, this would have an impact on future installments even on other platforms, not to mention the business consequences that this would have.
Just look at the situation of CD Projekt RED after what happened with Cyberpunk 2077 and its future titles, which already have a good dose of uncertainty surrounding the state in which they will be released. Be that as it may, we will continue to be attentive to any news that may be around the future of Activision Blizzard, either as part of the Microsoft conglomerate or independently as it has been to date.