Sony Worries That Microsoft Could Intentionally Make Call Of Duty Worse On PlayStation
Sony has submitted new documents regarding Microsoft's planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard and has expressed concern to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority about Call of Duty potentially being sabotaged on PlayStation. In a hypothetical situation cited by Sony (via The Verge), the PlayStation manufacturer said that it was worried that Microsoft could release a Call of Duty game on PlayStation that has poorer quality and performance when compared to the Xbox version.
«Microsoft might release a PlayStation version of Call of Duty where bugs and errors emerge only on the game's final level or after later updates,» Sony explained in its new documents. «Even if such degradations could be swiftly detected, any remedy would likely come too late, by which time the gaming community would have lost confidence in PlayStation as a go-to venue to play Call of Duty. Indeed, as Modern Warfare II attests, Call of Duty is most often purchased in just the first few weeks of release. If it became known that the game's performance on PlayStation was worse than on Xbox, Call of Duty gamers could decide to switch to Xbox, for fear of playing their favorite game at a second-class or less competitive venue.»
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