Sony gives up resistance at last minute, chooses to accept Microsoft’s binding agreement to guarantee Call of Duty will stay on PlayStation

2023-07-16 16:51:28

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Seeing that the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals did not agree to approve the FTC’s suspension order once morest Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Sony, the only company in the industry that had insisted on opposing the transaction before, gave up its resistance at the last moment.according to xbox boss Phil Spencer Tweeted not long ago, Microsoft and Sony have reached a binding agreement to ensure that Call of Duty will remain on the PlayStation platform even following the Activision Blizzard acquisition is officially completed.

However, in the official information released so far, there is no mention of the timeliness of Microsoft’s promise.nintendoNVIDIA When similar cooperation, it is stated that it is a ten-year contract. But in any case, following Sony accepted the reality, Microsoft basically cleared all obstacles to the acquisition.Now it’s up to them how much compromise they have to make in exchange forUK Competition and Markets Authoritylicense (maybe the sale of the UK cloud gaming business?), and the FTC still has antitrust lawsuits in its hands, but this has been unable to prevent Microsoft from completing the acquisition.


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