Microsoft’s fight with Europe over the Activision Blizzard acquisition bargain continues to bring out new twists and turns.
Indeed, following the attempted takeover of the Call of Duty publisher, and with Modern Warfare 2 available on Amazon always at the best price, the tech world went wild against Microsoft.
Bodies such as the Federal Trade Commission are working very very hard to study the maneuver and prevent any problems.
As Sony and Microsoft keep battling each other, the Japanese company recently attacking its U.S. rival harshly, the US house continues with its moves.
As Reuters reports, in a limited-access article reported by us at SpazioGames.co.uk, it seems that Microsoft is ready to give up something to Europe in order to complete the deal to acquire Activision Blizzard.
Indeed, The European Commission is among the regulatory bodies that recently has been most dogged in its desire to control the deal, to the extent that even Activision was forced to take a stand.
After Sony’s aforementioned attack explicitly mentioning a monopoly risk, the attention level has risen even higher.
That is why, Reuters sources say, it appears that Microsoft is ready to give up important parts of the deal in order to succeed and avoid further formal objections from the EU antitrust regulator.
The concessions in question from Microsoft would actually consist of that 10-year license agreement not only for Call of Duty vis-à-vis PlayStation, According to a source with direct knowledge of the matter ( the same one that had already surfaced some time ago).
This could be just one of the concessions the Redmond-based company might ultimately make, while the company says it is ready to cooperate with the European Commission, following a spokesperson:
“Sony, as an industry leader, says it is concerned about Call of Duty, but we have said we are committed to making the same game available on the same day on both Xbox and PlayStation. We want people to have more access to games , not less.”
The story will surely go on for a while yet and, equally surely, this won’t be the last straw. By the way, PlayStation Plus has also in the past tried to bring its games to Xbox, for example, it has been revealed.
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