Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan has indicated that he does not believe Microsoft’s cloud service for Xbox, Game Pass, is a competition for the market, specifically for Playstation.

The manager of the Asian company believes that the figures of the subscription platform of its main competitor “are getting lower and lower.”

“When we look at Game Pass, we’ve sold more PlayStation 5 in two years than they’ve gotten in subscribers and they’ve been doing it for six or seven years,” Ryan said.

In this way, the CEO of Sony Interactive wanted to demonstrate that the success of the console that he develops cannot be compared with the Xbox Game Pass cloud payment and video game platform. 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.

The transaction became the main concern of the Japanese manufacturer, which accuses Microsoft of encouraging 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 pose an inconvenience to competition, after the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a formal lawsuit to block the transaction, valued at 69,000 million dollars.

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Microsoft accused Sony of having prevented the arrival of its cloud gaming subscription service, Xbox Game Pass, to the PlayStation console, a strategy that would be due to the recent purchase of Activision Blizzard by the Redmond company.

Earlier this year, the tech giant reached an agreement to buy video game publisher and developer Activision Blizzard for just over $60.3 billion, a transaction that has been the subject of controversy over the past few months.

It should be remembered that Microsoft manufactures Xbox, a console that appears as direct competition in the market with Sony’s, PlayStation. With the purchase of the developer, Microsoft reported that it would include all its video games created and edited in its Game Pass subscription, and that with them it will enhance its cloud service, Cloud Gaming.

Hence, the acquisition of Activision Blizzard worried the Japanese company, which from the beginning has considered that it could jeopardize the titles available for platforms other than Microsoft.

So much so that, shortly after announcing the closing of the commercial agreement between the two companies, Sony announced that it expected Microsoft to comply with the contractual agreements, which ensured that Activision games were multiplatform.

One of the reasons why Sony has been suspicious of the agreement from the beginning is that the Call Of Duty franchise was left out of its catalog. This despite the fact that the CEO of Microsoft Gaming and head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, promised in writing that the saga could remain “many more years” on PlayStation.

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