“A divestment would have severe adverse effects on the development of competition because it would prevent Microsoft from achieving its key strategic objective, namely building a mobile gaming business with sufficient scale in order to challenge Google and Apple,” the Xbox maker said in its response to the CMA’s provisional findings.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said Microsoft may need to divest part of Activision Blizzard or Call of Duty if the watchdog is to approve the $69 billion merger.īut Microsoft is reluctant to entertain such structural remedies given the size of the Call of Duty brand and Activision Blizzard’s mobile expertise. “CoD: Mobile is expected to be phased out over time (outside of China) with the launch of Warzone Mobile,” it added. Call of Duty Mobile is a piece of the famous Call of Duty establishment from the universe of PC and gaming word. “CoD: Mobile was developed and is owned by TiMi Studios, a subsidiary of Tencent,” Microsoft said in a newly published response to the UK competition regulator’s investigation into its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Officially revealed last September, Warzone Mobile is being co-developed by Activision’s Shanghai, Beenox, Digital Legends, and Solid State studios. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is released as a hardware-intensive title, so it’s not surprising that the game has a rocky launch. But according to Microsoft, Activision’s long-term plan is to replace the game with Warzone Mobile, which is scheduled for release this year.
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