Washington, (EFE).- Microsoft reported this Sunday that it has reached an agreement for the video game “Call of Duty” to continue to be available on the PlayStation console after the purchase of Activision Blizzard.
“We are looking forward to a future in which players around the world have more options to play their favorite games,” said the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, who announced that pact on Twitter and specified that it is “binding.”
The president of Microsoft, Brad Smith, added on that same social network that since the first day of the purchase announcement they have been “committed to addressing the concerns of regulators, video game platforms and developers, and consumers.”
“Even after we cross the finish line for the approval of this agreement, we will remain focused on ensuring that ‘Call of Duty’ remains available on more platforms and to more consumers than ever before,” he said.
Microsoft announced in February 2022 the purchase of Activision for almost 69,000 million dollars, in what would be the largest acquisition of the technology giant and the largest operation of its kind in the video game sector.
But the Federal Trade Commission (FTC, for its acronym in English) filed a lawsuit, considering that the operation would allow Microsoft to reduce competition in the video game sector by controlling important franchises developed by Activision such as “Warcraft”, “Call of Duty” or “Candy Crush”.
The FTC lost that battle last Tuesday when a federal judge in California (USA) authorized the disputed purchase.
However, the operation still has obstacles, since the regulator can appeal this decision -something that it has already suggested that it will do- and, apart from that, Microsoft has yet to resolve the blockade of the acquisition in the United Kingdom.
The deadline to close the purchase of Activision ends next Tuesday, although both companies, as CNN recalled this Sunday, could try to extend that date.