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CTOnews.com, October 19 (Xinhua)-- in January this year, Microsoft Xbox announced that it would spend $68.7 billion (about 438.306 billion yuan) to acquire game giant Activision Blizzard.

Spencer, head of Microsoft's Xbox business, promised that even if the company's deal to buy well-known game developer Activision Blizzard was approved, the call of Duty series would remain on Sony's PlayStation console for "several years" (beyond Sony's existing contract with Activision) and that the next three call of Duty games would still be launched on the PS platform. Phil Spencer added, "We value our relationship with Sony."

In fact, Sony SIE has always had concerns about the Microsoft acquisition, mainly because of the future release plans of the call of Duty series and whether it will be removed from their platform, so SIE President Ryan repeatedly told EU censors about the potential risks of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. CTOnews.com learned that the call of Duty series is usually PlayStation's best seller of the year.

Microsoft confirmed in a filing with the UK regulator CMA that there is an agreement between Activision Blizzard and Sony to guarantee that the game will not be able to log on to XGP subscriptions for several years, CharlieIntel, a prominent whistleblower on call of Duty, revealed today.

Brazil's Economic Protection Management Council (CADE) announced that it had approved Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard without any restrictions, explaining that the exclusivity of call of Duty would hurt Sony. But the damage will not be catastrophic, nor will it force Sony to close its business.

According to CADE, call of Duty is "expressive" as a percentage of PlayStation add-on revenue, but not so big that Sony would die without it.

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"Sony PlayStation Jim Ryan made a special flight to the European Union to express concern about Microsoft Xbox's acquisition of Activision Blizzard."

"Microsoft says that even if it buys Activision Blizzard, Sony and Nintendo are still the biggest players in traditional games."

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