The last few months have been quite turbulent when it comes to the world of video games. Microsoft revolutionized the gaming industry by first purchasing Bethesda for 7.5 billion and later Activision Blizzard, for an amount equal to 68.7 billion dollars.
PlayStation responded to this move with the acquisition of Bungie for 3.6 billion dollarsbut it is clear that the move made by Microsoft is decidedly more predominant in the future given the number of intellectual properties in the hands of Activision.
In this sense, theEuropean antitrust has summoned Sony and Nintendo to hear their opinion about the aforementioned acquisition of Activision Blizzard and the possible consequences on the gaming market.
A few days ago it emerged that the matter was already dealing with the aEnglish ntitrustbut now it seems that the European Commission is also moving for something investigate the extent of this acquisition.
According to a recent report, the antitrust regulator has expressed concern about possible restrictions on access by franchises such as Call of Duty on platforms other than Xbox once the acquisition process is complete.
In addition, the possibility that the Xbox Game Pass service was also analyzed can land on rival platformsan issue already addressed in the past by the same house in Redmond, and this scenario it was met with disapproval from both Sony and Nintendo.
It was obvious that an acquisition of this magnitude would have numerous consequences, and they are likely to come in the next few months new developments in this regard.
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