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JE Technology Desk: A Microsoft official committed in court that it will continue to ship Call of Duty to its competitor Sony PlayStation devices after its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, reported Bloomberg. The company is defending its case against the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concerning the tech giant's acquisition of Activision Blizzard (the company behind Call of Duty, Candy Crush, Overwatch, World of Warcraft and more games) for $69 billion.

The remarks came after Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley asked Phil Spencer, Xbox boss, to confirm that the title will not be snapped from Sony consoles.

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"I would raise my hand, I would do whatever it takes," according to The Verge, Spencer said. "My commitment is, and my testimony is, that we will continue to ship future versions of Call of Duty on Sony’s PlayStation 5," he added. The game would continue to reach future and current versions of PS, as long as Sony is ok with it.

Pulling the game from PlayStation will lead to "irreplaceable harm" for Xbox, the head of gaming added. He is among the executive from the Redmond-headquartered giant defending the deal in a five-day hearing that will conclude on June 29. The FTC has put forward that this handshake will erode competition for subscription and games streamed via cloud technology.

Microsoft aims to cement a concrete stand in the grand gaming market via this deal. According to Bloomberg, this high-profile transaction will cement the Windows maker at third place in the mobile gaming industry globally, next to Tencent and Sony.

Updates on Next PlayStation and Xbox

The court hearing also gave us hints into the possible launches of the upcoming PlayStation 6 and the updated Xbox somewhere in 2028, according to IGN. For context, Sony's latest PlayStation 5 launched on November 12, 2020, two days after the fourth generation Xbox Series X and S.