that microsoft would leverage its position postacquisition to harm competition in the marketin particular the commission is concerned that by acquiring activision blizzard microsoft may foreclose access to activision blizzards console and pc video games especially to highprofile and highly successful games socalled aaa games such as call of duty reads the release from european commissionmeanwhile uks market authority which has been actively investigating the merger also expressed concerns that the acquisition would allow microsoft to restrict the valuable content of activision from other platforms primarily playstationhowever microsoft has been trying to convince regulators saying that they want the game to be available to an even larger audience than before earlier this week microsoft entered a 10year agreement with nintendo offering to make call of duty available on nintendo consoles post its merger with activision announced spencer further he also announced a commitment to keep call of duty available on steam alongside xboxin a wall street journal piece on monday brad smith wrote that ftc suing microsoft to block activisions purchase would be a huge mistake adding that it would hurt competition customers and thousands of game developersin a letter to activision blizzard employees ceo bobby kotick told staff that the deal would close and said that the allegation that the deal is anticompetitive is not true further adding we believe well win this challenge when ftc challenges the deal in the courtwhy is in for sony in all thissony who claims to be taking a huge toll if the deal closes has also even called for a regulatory veto microsoft had offered sony to extend the current deal for three years but sony rejected the offer saying it was inadequate on so many levelsmicrosoft said it also proposed to sony a similar 10 year deal as nintendo offering to release each upcoming call of duty title on playstation on the same day as xbox but sony declined the samesmith finds sony to be the loudest objecter of the dealnow if ftc succeeds in blocking the deal sony would continue to remain in the second position as a video game company and microsoft would lose out on the additional revenue it had hoped for after activisions acquisition so it would be a win for sony but it would be a huge loss for activision employees who were in the hope of a reorganisationbut it is yet to see what happens next