Today’s video game news has a clear protagonist: Xbox. The Phil Spencer-led company has shared quite a bit of highly relevant news over the past few hours, such as the starfield release date or confirmation that they will be hosting a big event in June. And on the other hand, this afternoon there was also Activision Blizzard Acquisition Updates.
Microsoft fights back tooth and nail before several courts to authorize the takeover of the company which controls IPs as gigantic as Call of Duty or World of Warcraft. There CMA (the UK Competition and Markets Authority) are carrying out a thorough investigation to determine whether or not this transaction would have a negative impact on the market and in doing so they gain access to a number of documents containing very revealing details on license management, the relationship with Sony or the future of Game Pass.
Will Game Pass prices go up?
- Over the past few weeks, people have started to weigh the possibility of increasing Game Pass prices if Microsoft’s takeover of Activision Blizzard materializes
- Fortunately, this was totally denied in a report published by the CMA, where Microsoft assures that in no case would it increase the prices of its subscription service
- Additionally, the company believes that doing this it would be counterproductive for them, since they would live a significant drop in the number of subscribers
- Nevertheless users can breathe easily regarding this topic
Xbox won’t stop fighting
It’s clear that Microsoft’s primary goal for this year is to complete the acquisition of Activision Blizzard once and for all, a company that can give it a huge push into the mobile market.
And to get approval from regulators, he took it upon himself to sign an important agreement with Nintendo to carry out ports of Call of Duty and is currently mediating with Sony to reach an agreement that benefits both.