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CTOnews.com, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft's Xbox games division, commented on his plan to buy Activision Blizzard, saying he believed the rigorous scrutiny from regulators was "fair" and "well-founded."

At present, regulators around the world are reviewing the acquisition. As a result of Sony's remonstrance, the UK's CMA significantly expanded its investigation into Microsoft and expressed concern that the deal could damage PlayStation and other game subscription services. Of course, Microsoft also denies this.

The CMA has now formally advanced its investigation to the second phase, while European competition regulators have set their own interim deadline of November 8 to either approve the deal or choose to move on to the second phase, which is expected to be ruled by the US Federal Trade Commission in late November.

Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, said at this week's Wall Street Journal Technology Live event that he thought it was necessary to review the major deal and revealed that he had been meeting regularly with regulators around the world.

"it may surprise people, but I'm not an expert at doing $70 billion deals," but I do understand that we really want to get approval in major jurisdictions. I spent a lot of time in Brussels, London and the Federal Trade Commission in the United States. "I would like to say that the discussion is very fair and honest. There is no doubt that this is a big acquisition. Microsoft is a large technology company and plays an important role in the technology industry. I think it makes sense for regulators to discuss acquisitions of this size, and I appreciate their willingness to take the time to investigate. "

He added: "We are really trying to get the deal approved-I am very confident of that. I was in London last week and continued to discuss with all regulatory committees and was confident that the deal would be approved."

At present, most of the discussions among regulators and the gaming industry around the Activision Blizzard acquisition have focused on the "call of Duty" series. Although Xbox has repeatedly promised that the series will continue to debut on PlayStation, Sony has repeatedly launched a war of words to express its concerns. Jim Ryan told the media bluntly that Microsoft's offer for the future "call of Duty" was "inadequate on many levels".

CMA in the UK expressed similar concerns, saying the deal could hurt PlayStation and other game subscription services if Microsoft made call of Duty exclusive to its own platform.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Spencer reiterated Microsoft's position that Microsoft will continue to release "CoD" on the PlayStation platform for the foreseeable future. He said that for the gaming business, the company was more interested in the impact of the acquisition of Activision Blizzard on its mobile business growth.

"what really interests us about Activision Blizzard and King is the work its team has done to create such a large number of mobile game fans," he said.

"the game will continue to be released on PlayStation-our plan is not to lure and divert users to play the game in the cloud, nor to remove it from the game within two to three years. Our goal is to continue to release call of Duty on the PlayStation platform as long as it is feasible-the technology is always in some form of transformation."

CTOnews.com reported that Spencer said call of Duty was so successful because it could be played on his company's Xbox, as well as Sony's PlayStation 5 and PC, and hinted that the game would be available on Nintendo's Switch handset in the future.

"call of Duty will be available on PlayStation, and I'd love to play it on Switch," Spencer said. "I'd love to see the game play on many different screens. Our intention is to treat call of Duty as my world."

Spencer, head of Microsoft Games: want to bring call of Duty to Switch platform

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