Because Sony has been holding on to “Call of Duty”, trying to use anti-monopoly investigations to get regulators to kill Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. In order to reveal Sony’s intentions, Microsoft has now put forward a new point of view to the CMA. They stated that Activision Blizzard is not the largest third-party supplier of the Playstation platform.
In a response to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Microsoft revealed that game company EA is the largest third-party supplier of console games, followed by Ubisoft and Take-Two Interactive. Of course, while Microsoft emphasizes that this is the case for the PlayStation, it’s clear that the same is true for the Xbox.
It is worth mentioning that as a publisher, Sony Interactive Entertainment is the fourth largest publisher on Playstation, and Activision Blizzard is the fifth.
“Sony owns 286 PlayStation exclusives,” Microsoft said. Microsoft also added that Sony’s first-party games are “almost entirely exclusive to the PlayStation platform” “, “Return of Death” and other exclusive works have already or will land on the PC platform).
Speaking of The Last of Us, Microsoft and Activision Blizzard also want regulators to pay more attention to the HBO TV show. An Activision executive previously claimed that the success of The Last of Us was a good reason for the merger to proceed, and Microsoft specifically pointed to the show’s success to the CMA.
