Microsoft has to bite the bullet again and praise competitor Sony and their PlayStation 5 while putting down their own gaming platform Xbox: This time it’s about exclusive titles. Sony is certainly much better at this.
This is Microsoft’s statement: In an official submission to the regulatory authority in the UK, Microsoft writes:
Sony has more exclusive games than Microsoft, many of them have better quality.
Among the strong exclusive titles, Microsoft counts:
- The Last of Us
- Ghosts of Tsushima
- God of War
- Spiderman.
Microsoft also admits that Sony has made agreements with studios that exclude those studios from releasing games for Xbox.
Microsoft downplays its role in gaming to acquire Activision Blizzard
Why does Microsoft say this? It’s still about the planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard for 69 billion US dollars. For regulatory authorities worldwide to allow this acquisition, Microsoft must convince them that the gaming market remains open and fair despite the merger of the two gaming giants.
Therefore, we have been experiencing a strange spectacle for several weeks:
- Microsoft constantly downplays itself, admits major issues in the gaming segment and says that future technologies like cloud gaming hardly concern anyone
- At the same time, it continuously explains how fantastic Sony is and how far ahead they are in gaming
- Sony, on the other hand, constantly emphasizes how extremely strong Call of Duty is, the most important game in gaming overall, and how dangerous it is for the market if the game falls into Xbox’s hands
This strange timeline we are currently living in will likely continue until the regulatory authorities have decided whether to approve the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft or not.
It’s a strange world where such news appears:
