Microsoft’s outrageously large bid to purchase Activision Blizzard has resulted in a protracted, painful period of negotiations. Without getting too into the weeds with all this, the short version is Sony is trying to prevent the deal from going through, and the Xbox firm is of course pushing for regulators to let it happen. The latest round of statements have been made public, and in Microsoft’s take, it claims Sony’s first-party output is better than its own.
The company’s point is that Sony has more exclusive games, and so it doesn’t necessarily need the likes of Call of Duty to succeed. However, Microsoft’s statement says “many of [Sony’s first-party games] are of better quality” than its own output. To put it another way, the firm has officially documented an admission that its own titles are inferior to Sony’s.
It goes on to call Sony “the dominant console…
