PlayStation "cannot protect against the loss of Call of Duty", Sony says

Sony has outlined Call of Duty's vital importance to PlayStation as part of its ongoing efforts to derail Microsoft's $68.7bn Activision Blizzard buyout bid.

"SIE [Sony Interactive Entertainment] cannot protect against the loss of Call of Duty," Sony wrote in a document published today by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority regulator, which is currently scrutinising the deal.

Simply put, Sony says it cannot compete with a Microsoft-owned and Xbox-exclusive Call of Duty via its own blockbuster first-party franchises: not in terms of gameplay hours, revenue, or in the budget it has to spend on building its own exclusives.

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