PS6: Sony will not share information with Activision if Xbox acquires it

her appearance before the court Microsoft With the US FTC, as the Federal Trade Commission seeks to block its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzardfor $69 billion. In this context, an interesting piece of information regarding his future collaboration has emerged Play Station with Activision.

In particular, the head of Sony’s gaming division, Jim RyanExplain how Sony will not be able to provide Activision Blizzard with information about its next console, the PlayStation 6if the acquisition has already taken place.

The senior executive’s comments came in April of this year, when the FTC asked Sony for comment on how it views the acquisition. In particular, one of Ryan’s main concerns at the time was how classified information could end up in Microsoft’s hands through Activision, particularly in relation to the PS6. In fact, he pointed out that Sony “You will no longer be able to share confidential details about the next console in development.”

Ryan maintains that Microsoft’s knowledge of the PS6’s specifics could seriously hurt them, but his response is vastly redacted from the public version of the documentation.

However, from what’s publicly available, we see Ryan also mention that Microsoft will not be incentivized to develop PlayStation-specific features for Activision games post-acquisition.

“I think Microsoft’s motivation — the primary motivation, post-acquisition — will be to improve the Xbox business in general, not Activision’s business.”

Finally, another interesting section in the largely anonymized docs talks about Mojang’s acquisition of Minecraft and Sony’s obvious concerns about what Microsoft learned about PlayStation consoles in this way.

In FTC v. MS/ABK filing, PlayStation boss Jim Ryan says that if the deal closes, Sony won’t be able to tell Activision its next console.

Then he is asked about Sony working with Mojang (Minecraft) after MS bought it. The discussion has been revised but Ryan says it supports that concern pic.twitter.com/M86CBm3CcY

– Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) June 21, 2023

Of course, denying early access to the PS6 dev kits could mean that that year’s Call of Duty might come late to Sony’s next generation console.

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