Microsoft’s head of gaming, Phil Spencer, vowed to keep Call of Duty on Sony consoles after its acquisition of Activision.
A Microsoft Corp. executive vowed in court that after the company’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. Call of Duty will remain available on rival Sony Corp’s PlayStation devices, countering the US Federal Trade Commission’s claim that the purchase would thwart competition in the console gaming market.
As long as Sony would allow that, he added. He also said that he would keep the game on future versions of the PlayStation. The blockbuster deal would vault Microsoft to the No. 3 position in the global games market after Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Sony. “This deal has nothing to do with increasing” Microsoft Xbox’s share in the console market, Spencer testified.
Agency lawyer James Weingarten said in his opening statement Thursday that the deal had nothing to do with Microsoft trying to challenge Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Apple Inc.’s “duopoly” in the mobile market.
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