Activision Blizzard CEO Accuses Sony Of 'Trying To Sabotage' Xbox Takeover

sometimes d***s shouldnt speak

Shut up and crawl back in your hole Kotick. Vile human being.

He will say that when he'll be getting a big payout if this deals goes through.

I actually think the deal closing out in MS' favour isn't a bad thing.
That said, Kotick is a cockroach and not someone I'd want on my team.

Oh look, this disgusting worm is trying to get a big cashout under the pretense of caring about the industry. Microsoft needs to get rid of this vampire sucking clown ASAP. Horrific excuse for a human being!

Even a broken clock is right twice a day though.

Sure, this guy is the reason the company needs so sell to someone to begin with... But.... It's interesting if Sony has cut off communication with Activision considering they have exclusive content and marketing contracts with them, sounds like they're burning their own bridges in spite at this point. Activision is still a "strategic partner" for Sony.

The deal will go through, but if it doesn't, oof it'll be a toasty beach party by the river Styx compared to the fosty relationship those two companies will have

@NEStalgia Sony have pretty much gone radio silent, id guess they are waiting to see what regulators want before signing any deals.

hes saying they arent talking to MS, not ABK. so id imagine theres still some contact.

I have a feeling that if this deal gets ultimately blocked (I still think it will go through) Sony needs to be ready for this to be the last year of their marketing agreement because it really sounds like they are burning a lot of bridges.

I would not be shocked if, in such a scenario, ABK would be even willing to take a ridiculous amount of money from Xbox to put CoD on GamePass day one, even without acquisition.

Looking forward to push squares article on this (if they do one) as I said the other day on their review of Hogwarts let's see If their condemnation of people extends to vile creatures like kotick or not 😂

I can tell you this right now: I have no idea what Sony is or is not doing. But I have no interest in anything Kotick says, especially when he has something obvious to gain. That scum can piss off.

@NEStalgia Yeah and also Sony not replying to Microsoft's 10-year parity offer after moneyhatting Activision for partial exclusivity, Sony is becoming its worst own enemy because they are revealing themselves as extremely unreliable.

This translates to "sony are blocking my massive payout".

Not to mention sony is trying to avoid a subpoena issued to them. Delayed it multiple times, what are they hiding there?

@Somebody I had forgotten that, it seems that all their moves are behind the scenes: lying to regulators, manipulating and hiding information as has been reported by many sources... Everybody knows that they are not quiet nor radio-silent.

There ya have it

I see a few here cynically saying he is just doing this because of a payout. This guy is not stupid, he is a terrible human being but he knows business, and he does not need this acquisition to go through to get a giant payout.

He gets a giant payout every single year, and should anyone try to get rid of him, he gets an even larger payout.

@Banjo- Sony don't need to respond to Microsoft, King Sony can choose when they want to speak. Microsoft will kneel before them.

@Somebody "...it's surprising, if not shocking, that Sony is also unwilling to comply with the FTC's own subpoena. First they asked the FTC to bring this case like no one else did. Then they don't want to answer questions."

Very interesting read.

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/02/sony-is-officially-fighting-microsofts.html

@NEStalgia this deal has already swung COD to Xbox. If it the deal don’t pass, which it will. Sony and ABK are on the rocks and breaking up in front of our very eyes. Xbox will have more COD than Sony going forward. Kiss the marketing deals goodbye.

@Snake_V5 King Sony HAHA. Fan’s are something else. I mean i love me some video games. But the word King and Kneel, not so sure about. But if Sony is King then all the more reason this deal should go through and Xbox isn’t a monopoly.

I love how Xbox fans are going by Bobby boys word despite being the scum he is. Phil i can get but please let's not take anything seriously from the mouth of a creature like Kotick.

@Moonglow Nah won't happen because such a thing impacts profits and what shareholders think. You're thinking like an passionite Xbox fan not a Corporation.

I think folks are overblowing the idea Sony has burned their bridge with Activision regardless of how this turns out. Activision is a capital B Business. Playstation is the current market leader. There is no way they are going just ignore that.

Kotick is just making noise. That's all it is.

Dude is Pure Scum and xbox wants to be tied at the hip to him

@Snake_V5 Bizarrely, I think you're actually right. This modern Microsoft is run by tech hippies and, compared to xb 360 era, weak AF.
I bet they sign over all Activision games to Sony for 20 yrs AND put COD on ps plus too. It would be a cuck move, but xbox have no balls anymore.

I pray they prove me wrong.

He’s a dirtbag but in this case I can’t help but agree.

@GodofCapcom Your looking at it the wrong way. Gamepass is the future. Look at Sony and Nintendo slowly making their own versions of gamepass. Buying tons of games at 60-70 a piece is a way of the past. Buying a game outright will always be an option, but Gamepass is here to stay, expect digital subscriptions to only increase from here on out.

Soon consoles themselves will cease to exist. It might be a few more generations from now. But once streaming is developed to the point of being a stable environment there will be zero need for consoles or anything other than digital games. phones, ipads and computers will be more than enough. Xbox, Sony and Nintendo in the future might only create controllers that stream all their games to any ipad/phone/pc or even protect an image with zero need for any other hardware piece, let alone a tv.

Gamepass is the future and its here to stay despite what anyone may feel or think. It's not just the gaming market that has been moving in this direction, its all media

@Ashadelo

Lmao.
Gaming is not like all the other media and if you can't take a grasp of that and look at all the CURRENT signs that it won't work as MS wants it to work, then I have no further comment.

A service might be sucessful in a few more generations, but it won't be from MS. You heard it here first.

I don't think streaming will be as good as playing locally, especially with this current economy climate.

If it worked, and ms was the one to do it, why do they need abk?

@Ashadelo

Btw. There are already documents because of this whole debate mentioning gamepass does in fact decrease sales, but that was very very obvious. Just waiting for the whole non profitable part to be said by MS themselves. Cod will not make as much money under ms, and at any time a game could replace it by anyone.

I'm just waiting for you guys to realize Phil projected his word and dreams into a lot of you and you believed him, and spreaded like it was 100% going to happen and there was no refutable facts (apart of the thousands of legit arguments made against services and how could they work/not work in gaming).

Anyways. You'll see everything once MS tries to go all in to get abk.

@Korgon You don't take on a partner in bad faith even if they offer good money if you have a reliable partner but trying to sink your bottom line.

@Ricardo_Aguilar sheesh, that's rich 😬.

@stvevan he said they weren't talking to ms, but also said they're not returning his calls (Activision) either. If they're really stonewalling their business partner over this, that's petty. Silence to Ms makes sense, but abk.... That's a gamble. Like @tharsman said above, If they really thought the deal could be stopped (I'm sure they don't) and abk would be independent that would be one roasty bridge after. No more deals.

@stvevan kotick confirmed in his interview they are not talking to MS or ABK.

"It's funny, Sony is not on the phone to us. In fact, they are not returning our phone calls. And so... I think one of the things that are surprising to us is, this is the time ordinarily we would be talking about the future and new opportunities together for partnership, and they just haven't been returning our phone calls. And so, I don't know that we're as valuable as they maybe have represented to the regulators that we are."

@WallyWest thats a bit of a silly take just because he could say something factually correct… people can’t agree with him? Almost like people were waiting to jump on that. He is still scum though 100%.

@Sakai this is the time ordinarily we would be talking about the future and new opportunities together for partnership... They're being bought by Microsoft there's not going to be any opportunities or partnerships between them

@Would_you_kindly they still have an ongoing marketing contract with ABK for a start

@NEStalgia No doubt Sony's relationship with Activision is in shambles regardless of what happens with this deal.

I would laugh my socks off when de deal doesn’t come through. And as a reaction Activision makes COD exclusive for Xbox.

And the acquisition has not been completed.

Sony's stubbornness is unlimited. As someone said on another thread, if the deal doesn't go through, business with Activision is over for Sony and Microsoft should buy exclusivity terms: Call of Duty owned by ABK and Microsoft buys exclusivity for two years.

As I thought they didn't put a disclaimer about Bobby or condemn his horrible actions then when I mentioned it my comment was removed for 'unconstructive feedback' lol