If we believe Microsoft’s claims, it’s no longer about traditional console exclusivity deals, it’s about preventing cross-platform games from appearing on competing game subscription services. Overall, the exclusivity war between console makers may well have taken a different turn with the rise of game subscription services. In recent years, we’ve also seen several high-profile third-party games such as Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six: Extinction launch on Game Pass on day one. If Sony is happy to have its customers pay $80 for PlayStation-exclusive games, Microsoft now ships all of its Xbox Game Studios titles on Game Pass on day one. Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service remains a pretty unique proposition in the video games industry today. Anyway, this claim definitely puts the competition between Xbox and PlayStation in an interesting new light. That’s a pretty serious accusation from Microsoft, though the company didn’t go into specifics with Brazil’s competition regulator. “Sony pays for ‘blocking rights’ to prevent developers from adding content to Game Pass and other competing subscription services.” “Microsoft’s ability to continue expanding Game Pass has been hampered by Sony’s desire to inhibit such growth,” Microsoft claimed in the documents. The company made this claim in documents sent to Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) competition regulator (via The Verge) as part of Microsoft’s ongoing process to acquire Activision Blizzard. Microsoft has accused Sony of paying publishers “blocking rights” to prevent some games to come to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service.
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