Bobby Kotick has accused Sony of attempting to “sabotage” the purchase of Activision by Microsoft in a recent interview.
The Activision CEO claims that PlayStation boss Jim Ryan and other Sony executives have “stopped talking” to both Activision and Microsoft. Kotick also went on to say that he thinks “this is all Sony just trying to sabotage the transaction”. This comes days after a CMA report that suggested that Call of Duty could be removed from the deal for it to get the go-ahead.
These comments come from an interview with Financial Times (via VGC), in which Kotick went on to say that the idea that Microsoft and Activision won't support PlayStation is “absurd”. He also said that he is still confident that the acquisition will go ahead; specifically because Microsoft has hired Beth Wilkinson, a lawyer who led the probe into Google for the Federal Trade Commission back in 2012. Kotick told the Financial Times that Wilkinson “feels like if she is going to have to litigate against the FTC, she will absolutely crush them”.
