As we have already told you throughout this year, Microsoft is still in the fight to finalize the purchase of Activision Blizzard, having to fight once morest some of the regulatory bodies that review the business. One of them is the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit to block the acquisition, ensuring that Xbox might monopolize the market following acquiring the licenses for games like Call of Duty.
Demand from which Microsoft has tried to defend itself in different ways, for example, saying that “PlayStation has 286 exclusives and Xbox only 59” or recently, ensuring that the company has sold fewer consoles than Sony and Nintendo. Something that has been submitted to the FTC delivering data of the consoles sold in 2021 of the three main brands in the industry.
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According to these data, Xbox reached 16% of the total number of consoles sold during the past year, a percentage that leaves it far behind PlayStation and Nintendo, who reached 34 and 50 percent, respectively. All presented in a graph where, in addition, Microsoft ensures that in terms of exclusive games, PlayStation reached 50% of total sales in the market, Nintendo 40% and Xbox only 10%.
Information that, as we told you, Microsoft delivers to demonstrate that it does not seek to monopolize the market by making exclusive the games of the IP’s that they are going to acquire, when the purchase of Activision Blizzard is finalized.
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