Thing is, they should not even have to question anything related to COD. If Microsoft wants, when they own Activision they can go and straight up cancell COD forever, its their product.
I dont see this people forcing Adobe to not put stuff into subscriptions or go to Apple and force them to put their apps on the PS,Google,etc stores.
They literally do not know how to do their jobs, its astonishing really. Their job is not to asure COD will or wont be on a Playstation, its to protect competition and consumers first, taking COD of playstation does not hurt Playstation a single bit⌠Like the worst thing about this, is that theyâre taking this as a joke when its just pure incompetence at this point.
If the big concession is keeping CoD on all platforms, thatâs a huge win for Microsoft. Microsoft was never going to make CoD exclusive, it just makes no sense to not continue to grow such a prestigious brand. It wouldnât be wise to leave a CoD sized vacuum on the PlayStation platform. Microsoft has many more ways to leverage this acquisition for the Xbox brand that doesnât require CoD exclusivity.
They literally kill the entire competition by purchasing them, adding them to their sub and then closing them down. That company is who they need to investigate and force them to make concession, not microsoft or even Playstation.
Stuff like not being able to make everything subscription based, or not be able to shut down those services in X amount of years. Or straight up blocking the purchase, wich they did with META and I think they also did with Nvidia and ARM
If the only concession is for COD to be on PS, im sure Microsoft would be 100% good with that as long as they can still include it in Game Pass which I donât believe would be negotiable on Microsoftâs side and doesnât include the restriction of COD becoming a platform like Sea of Thieves where thereâs the base game and content gets added to it throughout the months and years.
ARM situation was special, however the truth is that Adobe benefits from being B2B facing application mainly. Not consumer facing like social networks, ads, searchâŚ
Kinda weird for a regulator to say that publicly⌠also even weirder that the only focus is the franchise that Sony has been crying about, like try to be more transparent man, at least say âall ABK gamesâ and not just COD, we know Sony doesnât give a damn about the others for obvious reasons but still, it makes this whole sound like itâs about Sonyâs interests and not protecting gamers.
To care about other ABK games you need to play on PC or mobile, but most of players in europe (and I guess he is from Portugal) play on consoles and it is usually Playstation so it leaves either COD or Overwatch. They we can consider him a general consumer and thus he is more likely to play COD.
