Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal is at the messy stage
to help convince regulators to approve its $68.7 billion deal, Microsoft is now criticizing the UK’s Competition and Market Authority’s math calculations.Call of Duty
from PlayStation to draw former Sony fans to Xbox, basing its calculations on profits and losses from Xbox hardware, subscriptions, and games over a period of five years. Microsoft argues that the CMA’s financial modeling is flawed. The CMA’s model compares gains on a five-year basis to losses on just a one-year basis, and Microsoft says this “massively skews the results” in its response to the CMA .
“Unfortunately, there are clear errors in the figures being used to value the small number of Sony customers who might move to Xbox in the absence of,” says Rima Alaily, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for Microsoft, in a statement tofrom PlayStation players clearly demonstrates that there is absolutely no financial incentive for us to do so. Which is why we have repeatedly said we won’t. Our actions demonstrate that we want to bring more games to more people, not less.
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