Phil Spencer Talks About How Activision Blizzard Deal is Important to Xbox; What’ll Happen if it’s Blocked

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Things will only get more intense for the Activision Blizzard acquisition as intense scrutiny from government regulators across the nations continues to show. Currently, Xbox is helping provide competitors with amicable deals, such as the recently closed partnerships with Nintendo and NVIDIA. However, the real problematic factor in the deal is Sony, which currently has been placing many of the hurdles that the company had to deal with.

Today, Phil Spencer chimed in with his thoughts on the matter. In a recent conversation with The Times, Phil also talked about how the deal with Activision Blizzard wouldn't really make much of an impact if it were blocked. The current Xbox lead stated that even if the acquisition falls through, the Xbox brand will continue to move forward regardless. Spencer had the following to say regarding the hypothetical scenario in which the deal is blocked:

This is an important acquisition for us. It’s not some linchpin to the long term — Xbox will exist if this deal doesn’t go through.

The executive also expressed frustration regarding the sxcrutiny offered by the government authorities, stating that it hurts competition and makes those in direct competition (them being Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo itself in this case) weaker as a result of this.

Competition is us trying to get stronger. I don’t have great rationale for … how better competition in consoles is somehow hurtful for consumers. Because to me, having us, Sony, and Nintendo doing well in the console market — all of us with strengths and uniqueness and content and capabilities — gives consumers more choice. I’d hate to see consoles go to where phones are, where there are only two manufacturers. And, right now, we have three good