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Microsoft responds to the FTC’s lawsuit for the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard denying its accusations


Microsoft responds to the FTC's lawsuit for the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard denying its accusations



As expected and promised by Microsoft, it has presented the summary in response to FTC lawsuit in Activision-Blizzard purchase. In the letter sent by Microsoft, denies all accusations filed by the FTC that include accusations of exclusively holding Bethesda titles on Microsoft’s proprietary Xbox and Windows PC platforms.

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But Microsoft is sure of this acquisition and has wanted to respond to this demand from the FTC when two weeks have passed since these accusations. Microsoft has presented its strategy for this acquisition on which he insists he will leave Call of Duty as a cross-platform title even opening it to new consoles like Nintendo Switch. Microsoft has promised to bring the title to the Nintendo console and Steam at least for 10 years. This is something that has also been proposed to Sonyalthough he has ended up rejecting this offer.

However, it is true that some titles will arrive exclusively for Microsoft platforms, but this is something that other great developers also do of its competition, such as Sony.

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On the contrary, Microsoft has kept cross-platform other games like Minecraft or The Elder Scroll Online, something that it will also do with new titles that are predicted to be a great success such as Minecraft Legends. He has also shown his interest in mobile titles de King, which belongs to Activision-Blizzard, and take advantage of his experience to continue developing new titles for mobile devices that they have little to do with the exclusivity of its Xbox and Windows platforms.

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Article Editor: Juan Antonio Soto

Juan Antonio Soto

I am a Computer Engineer and my specialty is automation and robotics. My passion for hardware began at the age of 14 when I gutted my first computer: a 386 DX 40 with 4MB of RAM and a 210MB hard drive. I continue to give free rein to my passion in the technical articles that I write at Geeknetic. I spend most of my free time playing video games, contemporary and retro, on the 20+ consoles I own, in addition to the PC.

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