Sony would refuse to share information about a possible PS6 console with Activision Blizzard , shouldMicrosoft ’s combative takeoverof the publishing firm get the go ahead .
In his protest to the proposed putsch , currently beingcontested by the Federal Trade Commission(FTC ) in the US , PlayStation boss Jim Ryan aver there ’s no room it ’d be able-bodied to portion out inner detail about its next console with a company owned by its big console competition .
AsEurogamerreports , Ryan severalize the FTC that Sony “ just could not execute the risk of infection of a fellowship that was possess by a unmediated competitor having access to that entropy . ” He added Sony “ could no longer partake confidential contingent about its next console in development ” .
Much of the objection to the heap has been about Sony ’s fears Microsoft could eventually make games like Call of tariff undivided to Xbox and PC .
However , given Sony ’s concerns , it would be very difficult for Activision and its development partners to even make the first Call of Duty for the next cabinet , if the PlayStation - maker would n’t be able to offer dev units and the requisite technical data .
While much of what Ryan told the court is redacted from public view right on now , the PlayStation CEO added : “ I believe that [ Microsoft ] ’s incentives – their primary incentive will , at post - acquisition , would be to optimize its overall Xbox business , not the business of Activision . ”
Elsewhere , in a newly - disclosed email conversation require Ryan and a former Sony executive last yr , the PlayStation CEO appear to accommodate losing admittance to games like Call of Duty was n’t a headache upon the passel being announced .
“ It is not an exclusivity play at all , ” Ryan wrote in an electronic mail seen byThe Verge . “ They ’re consider bigger than that and they have the cash to make moves like this . I ’ve spent a fair amount of clip with [ Phil ] Spencer Bobby [ Kotick ] and I ’m pretty sure we will proceed to see Call of Duty on PlayStation for years to derive . ”
