By the summer, Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard is supposed to be completed according to the plan that was put forward in January of last year when the deal was announced. Whether that will actually be the case remains to be seen, still pending approvals from at least three heavy competition authorities, namely the EU, the UK and the US.
Sony has fought hard to stop the deal, but in a new interview with Fox Business, Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick comments on this, saying that the company does not seem to be as important to Sony as they like to make it sound. Among other things, he says that Sony does not seem to be interested in planning the future:
“It’s funny, Sony is not on the phone to us. In fact, they are not returning our phone calls. And so… I think on of the things that are surprising to us is, this is the time ordinarily we would be talking about the future and new opportunities together for partnership, and they just haven’t been returning our phone calls. And so, I don’t know that we’re as valuable as they maybe have represented to the regulators that we are.”
Whether Activision Blizzard’s relationship with Sony has been damaged by the takeover remains to be seen, but that is something we will only notice if the deal does not go through.
