Dec. 27 (Portaltic/EP) –
The CEO of Sony Interactive EntertainmentJim Ryan, has stated that he does not believe that Microsoft’s cloud service for Xbox, Game Pass, is competition for the console he develops, PlayStation.
According to statements by people close to the company and collected by Insider Gamingthe manager believes that the figures of the subscription platform of his main competitor “They are getting lower.”
“When we consider GamePasswe have sold more PlayStation 5 (PS5) in two years than they have collected in subscribers and they have been doing it for six or seven years,” said the CEO of the Japanese company, according to these people related to the company.
In this way, the CEO of Sony Interactive wanted to demonstrate that the success of the console that it develops cannot be compared to the claim that the payment and video game platform arouses. in the cloud Xbox Game Pass.
These statements are in contrast to everything that happened after the Xbox manufacturer announced its intention to buy Activision Blizzard, developer of successful franchises such as Call of Duty.
This has become the main concern of the Japanese manufacturerwhich accuses Microsoft of fostering possible unfair competition if the company of the video game publisher is finally formalized.
Ryan’s statements come days after the technology giant and Activision Blizzard defended that this acquisition would not impair competition, after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the United States to file a formal lawsuit to block the transaction, valued at 69,000 million dollars (65,756 million euros).
