PlayStation fears Call of Duty being owned by Microsoft, according to recent Q&A
PlayStation recently spoke to a Brazilian regulatory body, according to the ResetEra forums, concerning the future of Call of Duty. The way Sony views Call of Duty is that it is a franchise that has no rivals, and other companies cannot hope to compete with it.
Call of Duty is a genre all its own, and with Microsoft owning the IP, it could easily influence who purchases what consoles in the future.
The company was very open about how they felt about it, but it’s important to note that the sale is not final yet. It needs to be confirmed by several regulating bodies worldwide, including the Brazilian body PlayStation spoke to recently.
The information for this recent Q&A isn’t a leak, however. Brazil is open and transparent about things of this nature, so the entire review process is available for public consumption.
PlayStation had numerous concerns regarding Activision Blizzard being owned by Microsoft, such as the sheer popularity of Call of Duty.
The company fears that if the game is owned by a company that also has a console, fewer PS5 units would be purchased. Instead, fans are more likely to pick up the Xbox, as Microsoft also develops it.
Another problem is that Call of Duty, in the shooter genre, will not have a rival, according to PlayStation. The company fears that no company can devote the same amount of resources that Call of Duty can.
Even if they could, it wouldn’t matter because it would be too difficult to catch up to where CoD already is.
According to Sony, Call of Duty has been the top-selling title for about a decade, and the numbers aren’t even close. It’s a franchise that defines the first-person shooter genre and has a reach on social media that no other FPS can match.
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