The United States’ Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing Microsoft to stop its acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
The organisation believes that should.
The United States’ Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing Microsoft to stop its acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
The organisation believes that should this deal go through, it would have a harmful impact on the video games industry. The FTC says that given Microsoft’s track record of buying companies then making their content exclusive to its own platforms – such as that of Bethesda parent ZeniMax Media – that it’s not impossible that it would eventually do the same with Activision Blizzard’s products.
The brand at the centre of all this is Call of Duty, with rival company Sony Interactive Entertainment saying it would be impacted were this to become an Xbox-exclusive franchise. Microsoft’s games chief Phil Spencer has said that there are no plans to only have Call of Duty on its services.
