That Sony is worried about the possibility that Microsoft might buy Activision Blizzard is a fact that no one can dispute anymore, and that it has led the Japanese company to make hypocritical and nonsensical arguments, we cannot deny that either. The latest ‘miracle’ Sony has launched to try to convince the UK’s competition authority is Microsoft could release buggy versions of Call of Duty on the PlayStation.

The concept of Call of Duty building on problems is very broad and seems to include from minor optimization to content restriction. He also says he could apply this strategy to rival consoles like the Nintendo Switch. Sony coming out to criticize something they’ve been doing for years is bullshit, as I’m sure you all remember “first on PlayStation” which has always been associated with Call of Duty or the exclusive benefits of Call of Duty Modern Warfare II on PlayStation.

Sony comes up with the Activision Blizzard purchase should be blocked because she thinks Microsoft could do something she’s been doing for yearsand that it could adversely affect free competition. So if Sony has been doing this for years, nothing is happening, but if there is a possibility that Microsoft is doing it, it’s terrible and should be prevented at all costs, right? The hypocrisy it engenders is tremendous.

The Japanese company insists that it would be necessary to remove the Call of Duty franchise from the Activision Blizzard purchase operation and that it would not harm competition. Sony had a hard time answering to the agreements that Microsoft signed with NVIDIA and Nintendo, in which it guaranteed that the said franchise will reach both GeForce Now and Nintendo Switch, but we can already see that even in this situation their hand did not tremble when resorting to absurd hypocrisy argument.

On the technical side, Sony said that these buggy versions of Call of Duty could arrive on PlayStation with issues that would affect the gaming experience, and that they could also have poor optimization and lower quality graphics. According to Sony, this would be enough to make the game sell less on its console, and even if it is fixed later with patches, the damage would be irreparable because Call of Duty only sells really well in the first few days of release.

Sony is counting again a manipulated version far from realityBecause nowadays it’s rare for a perfectly optimized and polished game to hit the market that doesn’t need at least a few tweaks, and because every Call of Duty installment has maintained a good level of sales throughout its existence. The problem with all of this is that these arguments can ultimately work because the regulators don’t know the reality of the market they regulate.

Sony, on the other hand, seems to be oblivious to this the numerous graphical parity tweaks it used back in the PS2 days, a console that was much less powerful than the Xbox and GameCube. This save meant that cross-platform games had the same graphical quality on the two consoles as they did on the PS2, which was clearly unfair. With the PS5 and Xbox Series X, we’ve also seen instances of games that They came optimized for the first and that caused problems in the seconddespite the fact that the latter is more powerful.

We’ll see how Microsoft approaches this argument, but the fact that Sony is so concerned is clear evidence that Activision Blizzard’s purchase operation could end up receiving thumbs up from europesomething we already told you a few days ago.