newly claimed Harvey Smith, director of the upcoming Arkane game Redfall, said that the game was previously supposed to be released on PlayStation 5, but now that the company is part of Microsoft, it will only be released on PC and Xbox. Microsoft issued a statement shortly thereafter that it “did not take any games from PlayStation”, referring to games such as Ghostwire: Tokyo and Deathloop, which were released on PlayStation consoles after the acquisition.

Sony has now used the above situation as an example to warn the British Financial Market Authority, which is investigating a possible acquisition of Activision Blizzard. the response from Sony It comes after the Competition and Markets Authority issued a statement last month claiming that the acquisition of Activision Blizzard would not significantly reduce competition within the UK gaming industry.

Sony reports: “Last week, two days before the supplement was released, video game site IGN published a new piece of evidence in the form of an interview with Redfall director Harvey Smith. In this interview, Smith explained that Redfall was originally meant to be released to everyone but that changed when it took over. Microsoft on Bethesda”.

According to Sony, this is “clear evidence” that Microsoft is trying to prevent games from being released on competing platforms, and that the company should do the same for Call of Duty if Activision Blizzard is acquired. Microsoft, in turn, has signed 10-year deals with several companies, including Nintendo, to release Call of Duty on their platforms when the acquisition takes place – however, Sony wants nothing to do with this deal.

Since Microsoft announced early last year that it wanted to acquire Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard, authorities around the world have been investigating whether this is justified in relation to a potential monopoly situation within the gaming industry. As a result, various supervisory notes and corporate responses are published regularly.