Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has sent an email to staff stating Sony’s behaviour is “disappointing” but won’t affect the long term relationship between the two companies.
In a bid to prevent Microsoft’s proposed $69bn takeover of Activision Blizzard, Sony has claimed the deal would be anti-competitive and even stated Microsoft could release a deliberately buggy version of Call of Duty on PlayStation.
Kotick directly addresses these statements in his email.
“You may have seen statements from Sony, including an argument that if this deal goes through, Microsoft could release deliberately ‘buggy’ versions of our games on PlayStation. We all know our passionate players would be the first to hold Microsoft accountable for keeping its promises of content and quality parity. And, all of us who work so hard to deliver the best games in our industry care too deeply about our players to ever launch sub-par versions of our games,” said Kotick.