Xbox head Phil Spencer, normally an industry nice-guy, has had enough with Sony’s relentless protests to regulators over Microsoft’s attempt to purchase Activision Blizzard.
Sony, meanwhile, very much does not want Xbox to get larger by acquiring a company with a market cap dangerously close to the. But while there’s an argument to be made about the size of the deal, it’s also pretty apparent that Sony is being obstructionist for its own sake to try to kill something that will benefit their rival and hurt them.
The latest front in the war has been Microsoft trying to put pressure on regulators to recognize Sony as being unreasonable by getting Nintendo and Valve to agree to the same Call of Duty-based deals that they are currently offering Sony, which Sony is rejecting. But so far, it feels like regulators across the UK, EU and now the US continue to side with Sony and bring up many of their talking points.
It remains unclear if the deal goes through, even though most forecasters predict it will, despite all this pushback. But Microsoft is going to struggle every step along the way with Sony cutting at their heels.
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