Ever since Microsoft announced that it will acquire Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard for a whopping $68.7 billion, Sony has been against this proposed acquisition. So much so that the head of PlayStation Jim Ryan is making sure that this deal doesn’t end up getting sealed.

In the latest turn of events, Microsoft has now replied back to the ongoing concerns of Sony over losing Call of Duty after the acquisition. The Xbox maker has responded back to PlayStation’s argument that owning Activision and CoD will offer an advantage to the Game Pass subscription service while attracting more users.

Microsoft reportedly tried to offer Xbox Game Pass on the PlayStation!

While it witnessed a positive outcome recently in South America where the regulatory body approved the proposed acquisition, without any restrictions, Microsoft has faced a new obstacle recently. As revealed by The Verge‘s Tom Warren, UK’s Competitions and Markets Authority has expressed concerns over the deal involving Activision.

Microsoft is not very much satisfied with the reasons given by the CMA for why it’s not willing to approve the acquisition. CMA highlighted in its 76-page report that the Xbox–Activision Blizzard deal will “lessen competition in game consoles, subscriptions, and cloud gaming.”

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To this, Microsoft came up with a strong response. As reported by Tom Warren on Twitter, Microsoft revealed that it reportedly tried to offer Xbox Game Pass on the PlayStation. This implies that the company is not trying to make a franchise like Call of Duty exclusively available on just a single hardware platform.

Basically, if Sony is saying that the exclusivity will eventually harm the PlayStation, Microsoft is trying to say that it’s willing to offer them Xbox Game Pass. So PS players will be able to access CoD titles that way. Sony, however, “has chosen to block Game Pass from PlayStation,” read the tweet from Tom Warren.

All things considered, the PlayStation maker is not interested in getting satisfied with a middle path. It just wants to make sure that the proposed acquisition of Activision by Microsoft keeps getting delayed indefinitely.

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