Not only in Brazil, now Playstation officially is taking matters to another level and in the important European Zone market, CEO Jim Ryan is telling regulators that tMicrosoft it shouldn't allow them to buy Activision Blizzard.

Reportedly, Jim Ryan as the current CEO of Playstation, took a flight at Brussels as the European Union is the next scenario on Microsoft’s attempt to gain the regulatory “thumbs up” on buying Activision Blizzard, as early as September 8th.

The reason? BUT OF COURSE saying that the transaction is bad for competition, mainly Call Of Duty being retired from multi-platform to just Xbox exclusive.

While it was not revealed what exactly Ryan appealed, probably is the fact that Call Of Duty is one of Playstation strongest third party franchise and see the Microsoft buyout as a direct disruption as Call Of Duty, while always available on other platforms, has always treated Playstation as the “focus platform”, a relationship Sony fears Microsoft purge first thing buys Activision Blizzard.

Last November and after a turbulent year were accusations of toxic workplace and even supported by CEO Bobby Kotick, Activision Blizzard announced that accepted a buyout offer from Microsoft, valued at $68.7 billion, but ironically, Sony waited until Summer to raise concern were the transaction is probably between mid to final processing of scrutiny in some markets.

Originally, Sony responded to the BRazil regulators that the acquisition was bad for competition and then Sony went public to justify its disapproval of Activision Blizzard becoming Xbox Game Studioss newest (AND BIG) member.

Microsoft have stated that they are interested that Call Of Duty’s relationship with to expand for “several more years” after Sony’s current marketing deal (including Modern Warfare 2 Remake, has 3 main games left) expires, only to have Sony confirming the initial negotiations and labeling the offering as “inadequate at many levels.

While Stadia will be gone, Google had something to say too

Despite Google’s only official presence in the gaming industry is via Stadia and while the platform unfortunately closes in January, apparently, the European Union actually got an opportunity to express about the Activision Blizzard acquisition and the Internet Giant feels that the transaction “has issues' '.

Well see how this progresses as apparently, FTC is bound to say whether they will legally object to the transaction, Saudi Arabia market will not and UK entered on their Phase 2 which means further scrutiny.

Vía DealReporter