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Well that's always been obvious... And the latest battlefield games haven't helped!
In a big statement, Sony has come out and claimed that Battlefield has failed to live up as competition against Activision Blizzard’s Call Of Duty, saying that their first person shooter can’t keep up with COD. Currently, Microsoft is in the process of purchasing Activision Blizzard for $70 billion by 2023, with the comments being made in Sony’s response to the UK government’s investigation into the merger of the two companies.
The gaming giant argued that the if the purchase goes through, the merged entities of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard will have access to such massive resources that no company would be able to compete with them. Where Microsoft has argued that Battlefield could compete with Call of Duty, Sony has staunchly disagreed stating that Battlefield has failed to compete with Call Of Duty.
"Call of Duty is not replicable," it said. "Call of Duty is too entrenched for any rival, no matter how well equipped, to catch up. It has been the top-selling game for almost every year in the last decade and, in the first-person shooter genre, it is overwhelmingly the top-selling game.”
"Despite the similarities between Call of Duty and Battlefield, the Battlefield franchise cannot keep up," Sony continues. "As of August 2021, more than 400 million copies of Call of Duty had been sold, while Battlefield had sold just 88.7 million copies."