As we previously pointed out on Pure Xbox, the UK CMA recently announced that they were no longer concerned about the impact of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard on the console market, prompting a response from Sony suggesting that the findings were “surprising, unprecedented and irrational”. .”
In this context, Sony spoke a bit about the need to Obligation to have full parity on Xbox and PlayStation, referencing SIE President Jim Ryan’s very definitive comments during a recent appeals hearing:
“Any degradation in price, performance or game quality on PlayStation or any delay in release would quickly damage SIE’s reputation and lead to loss of participation and players.”
“As SIE CEO Jim Ryan explained to the CMA during the appeals hearing, if PlayStation were to receive a downgraded version of Call of Duty, “it would seriously damage our reputation. Our players would leave our platform in droves and network effects would compound the problem. Our business would never recover.”
This small section of the report details player expectations for games like Obligationeven mentioning that Digital Foundry’s in-depth analysis of a title can have a “very influential” effect on where console owners choose to play a game. So the concern is that any kind of degradation could be a deal breaker.
On the Xbox side, Microsoft’s most recent response to the CMA mentioned that the company “has no intention of denying or downgrading access to Call of Duty”, stating that this would be “in direct contrast to the interests of players in the UK and around the world”. . However, Sony and Jim Ryan clearly still have their concerns.
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(source assets.publishing.service.gov.uk)
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