Microsoft’s pulse on Sony to take over Activision Blizzard has left us with some very interesting information. The Redmond company has submitted a report as part of a new charge to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, where you can clearly see the position they both have in the console market, and also the position held by Nintendo.

The numbers we see are for 2021, which means they haven’t been updated that year yet. Total by December 2021 Sony has amassed 151.4 million PS4 and PS5 consoles in all its models and versions, giving it a comfortable lead over the runner-up, which is Nintendo, and it’s been piling up 103.5 million pieces sold from Switch, also in all its versions. The third position remains for Microsoft, which is cumulative 63.7 million consoles sold including Xbox One in all its versions (S and X) and Xbox Series S and Series X.

If we break it down by system, we see that the PS4 was the best-selling console with 117.1 million accumulated units as of December 2021. PS5 sold 17.3 million units by that date, so we’re 17 million consoles short of matching the data Microsoft provided. We don’t know where the Redmond company got that extra amount from, so I can’t tell you anything else.

However, what is important here is not the division of the total number of consoles sold, but the meaning that Microsoft wants to give to this argument and how it wants to use it to its advantage in order to gain favor with its attempt to buy Activision Blizzard. approval of the United Kingdom.. The key to this argument is that the Redmond giant wanted show three essential things:

• It does not occupy a dominant position in the video game console sector, and that it’s actually the other way around because they’re behind Sony and Nintendo.
• It turned out to be a “weak part” noting that Sony sold more than twice as many consoles as Microsoft, and that even Nintendo was able to surpass that number with almost twice as many consoles sold, despite being “late to the party”.
• He also highlighted Sony’s dominance of the video game industry over the past 20 years to create “awareness” and reiterated that the Japanese company is a strong point.

Will Microsoft acquire Activision Blizzard? It’s not easy for him, and Sony will not stop doing everything to prevent it, that’s obvious. However, it is clear that the Redmond giant has strong arguments and knows how to use them to its advantage, as we have just seen in this article, so it can end up completing the acquisition of Activision Blizzard.