Activision Blizzard’s acquisition, which Microsoft proposed earlier this year, has become a larger point of discussion than anyone expected it to be. The second major video game developer and publisher acquisition by the company, coming right behind the Zenimax purchase, many raised some valid points.
Some said that these plans lean towards anti-trust problems. Others pointed out that this acquisition will probably make few of the titles exclusive to one particular platform. The situation became so heated that Sony’s Jim Ryan publicly disclosed the Call of Duty deal offered to them by Xbox.
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It seems Microsoft and Sony have slowly started to reach an understanding to make sure the deal for Xbox goes through. As reported by the New York Times, Microsoft told the newspaper that it offered a 10-year deal to Sony for keeping Call of Duty on PlayStation. They sent over the proposal on November 11. Sony is yet to comment on these claims.
Earlier, Sony claimed that the company getting purchased by Microsoft would essentially mean excluding Call of Duty from PlayStation. Furthermore, they claimed that Microsoft offered Sony a three-year multiplatform deal initially for the shooter after the acquisition.
The other point of complaint comes from the fact that the popular shooter might head into Xbox’s subscription service Game Pass. Sony has also raised concern about this, claiming doing so would take the player base from their ecosystem to Xbox Game Pass.
Whatever the case be, hopefully, both company reaches a middle ground soon.
