A new moment of tension is taking place in the process of reviewing the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft and the name of Jim Ryan came up a few moments ago after an Activision executive criticized Sony’s opposition to any offer that make it the Xbox company.
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Activision’s Lulu Cheng put Jim Ryan on display and his refusal to buy Activision
Today official information about the meeting of Microsoft, Activision and Sony was revealed before the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and something that all the related notes share is that the Japanese company refused everything Microsoft offered. Well, given the position of the PlayStation company (which has been the same at all times) Lulu Cheng Meservey, Activision Blizzard’s vice president of corporate affairs, criticized Sony again but this time she referred to the head of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Jim Ryan.
The Activision executive shared a tweet about Sony’s denial of the commitments that Microsoft has put on the table regarding Call of Duty. In that post, Lulu Cheng Meservey launched the question “Why?” The following tweet includes the response:
The CEO of SIE answered that question in Brussels.
In his words:
“I don’t want a new Call of Duty deal. I just want to block your merger.”
— Lulu Cheng Meservey (@lulumeservey) March 8, 2023
As you can read, the Activision executive cited the statement that Jim Ryan made before the regulatory authorities of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium, in recent days: “I don’t want a new Call of Duty deal. I just want to block their merger (Microsoft | Activision Blizzard)”.
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In this way, Lulu Cheng Meservey exposed the head of Sony Interactive Entertainment and showed the reason why the Japanese company has refused, and will continue to do so, to any offer and commitment that comes from Microsoft. In this sense, it is expected that Sony will rely as a last resort on the possibility that the Federal Trade Commission of the United States (FTC) take the matter to court, since it is a fact that there will be no settlement between the two companies.
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