Microsoft conversely is offering more value for its customers, with a guarantee to place upcoming AAA exclusives like Redfall, Starfield, and others day and date into the subscription. Sony also only invests limited amounts in its PSN+ service, only placing its first-party titles in there several months or even years after their full retail versions.

PlayStation Now remains the lowest quality option for cloud gaming, left in the dust by NVIDIA GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming, with fewer games and fewer servers.

Similarly, Sony is only investing scant amounts in its own subscription and cloud services. The FTC has placed a large amount of emphasis on developing markets in its current regulatory ideology, blocking Meta / Facebook from acquiring VR companies in an attempt to stymie its growth - despite the fact few others are investing in this tech. If accurate, this episode further backs up Microsoft's previous claims that Sony is attempting to mislead regulators. Microsoft has pledged to put Call of Duty into Xbox Game Pass for $10 per month - something that would benefit everybody except Sony's shareholders. Sony seeks instead to preserve the status quo, of the annualized retail Call of Duty, owing to the vast amount of money the company makes from full $70 versions of the game. regulator has sought to block the deal, with the view that consolidation would supposedly 'harm' competition in developing markets like cloud streaming and subscription services - two areas where Sony has apparent limited interest in investing into. Call of Duty exclusivity is often cited as the main reason PlayStation is supposedly 'afraid' of the deal, despite the fact Microsoft has offered a contract for an unprecedented 10-year guarantee to provide Call of Duty to PlayStation, alongside Nintendo and Steam PC platforms. Sony PlayStation is Microsoft's primary competitor in the console space, and they are among the only companies to publicly and privately complain to global regulators about Microsoft's deal to purchase Activision Blizzard.

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