These figures could facilitate the process of buying Activision by Microsoft

Considering all the difficulties you go through Microsoft regarding the acquisition process ActivisionBlizzard, it is logical that the company carries out all kinds of strategies so that the various organizations responsible for ensuring that there is no monopoly in the market end up unlocking the purchase. So much that Xbox partners with Nintendo for the next 10 years, as my friend Daniel told you in this other article.

Now, one of the companies with the most complaints about the purchase would be PlayStation, which comments that this acquisition would cause a very negative effect on the market by causing a significant power imbalance. But… Does this balance really exist? The data presented by insider Benji-Sales points in the opposite direction; Specifically, in one in which PlayStation would currently be far superior to Xbox.

The PlayStation is currently much more powerful than the Xbox

  • The data with which I’ll leave you below they have to do with the sale of consoles by both companies
  • This numbers have been translated into the percentages of market presence of each in the different regions of the world
  • The following data They are not specific to the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, but they accommodate previous generation consoles
  • in the equation Nintendo was excluded from making a direct comparison between these two companies
  • The data is as follows:
    • Europa – 80/20 in favor of PlayStation
    • Japan – 96/4 in favor of PlayStation
    • Overall – 70/30 in favor of PlayStation
    • Sales at the end of 2022: 69/31 in favor of PlayStation

This data was originally disclosed by Brad Smith, one of the bosses of Microsoft, with the aim of defending the takeover of ActivisionBlizzard by the latter and, above all, to refute PlayStation’s complaints that the market is no longer balanced when, at the moment, it seems not to be. What do you think of all this? I read you in the comments.

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