A senior Microsoft official said he was confident in his company’s ability to buy video game giant Activision Blizzard despite recent proceedings launched by US and European regulators.
“We are very confident in our case,” Brad Smith, Microsoft’s chairman, told AFP on Tuesday. The US competition authority (FTC) launched lawsuits last week to block the publisher’s acquisition of titles like “Call of Duty” and “Candy Crush” for $69 billion.
The European Union has launched an investigation into whether the acquisition would make Activision’s games exclusive to Xbox, the video game console marketed by Microsoft. Mr. Smith had proposed in early December to his Japanese rival Sony, in a column published by the Wall Street Journal, a 10-year deal that stipulated that any new “Call of Duty” work would be released simultaneously on Xbox and PlayStation. , the sony console
“A Good Omen”
“We strongly believe that this type of acquisition, where we have more games made in-house and commit to making them available on Sony’s PlayStation over the next decade, is good for competition and good for consumers,” Smith said. “I bode well for our prospects before we go before an administrative law judge” in the United States, he said.
Smith was speaking at a US-Africa summit in Washington, where Microsoft outlined plans to bring satellite technology to millions of unconnected Africans.
Source: BFM TV
