Metacritic portal has published a list of the highest-rated publishers for 2022. The first place in it went to Sony, and Microsoft, which was in the lead a year earlier, did not get into the top this time.

Sony‘s CFO believes that the PS5 will sell over 60 million devices over the entire life cycle of the console. Hiroki Totoki told about this at the Morgan Stanley conference.

Sony has shared with the British regulator concerns about the future of the Call of Duty series on its consoles if a deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard takes place. In particular, she suggested that the corporation will start releasing games with bugs and poor performance on the PlayStation.

On February 21, the European Commission held a hearing on the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. It is reported that during it, the head of PlayStation said that “he does not want to conclude a new agreement on Call of Duty, but just wants to block the deal.”

An American court ordered Sony to share information with Microsoft about the work of the gaming division — Microsoft needs this data for proceedings with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Ampere Analysis has prepared an overview of the console market for 2022. Among other things, she said that by December 31, the total sales of the PS5 reached 30 million devices, while the Xbox Series consoles sold much worse — 18.5 million devices.

Such figures were shared by Microsoft President Brad Smith at a hearing in Brussels.

Sony said that Microsoft requires it to disclose too much information as part of the corporation’s court with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The Japanese company must provide more than 120 documents, including the personal data of seven PlayStation executives.

Last week, Turkish media reported that Sony had decided to close its office in Istanbul. On February 6, the company confirmed the rumors in a comment for the portal GamesIndustry.biz .

The former technical director of Oculus* tweeted a thread about PS VR2, which is due to be released this month. John Carmack said that despite the excellent technical characteristics, Sony‘s VR headset is unlikely to be very successful.

Sony has published another financial report today. In it, the company disclosed the results of the third quarter of fiscal 2022.

Yesterday, Bloomberg, citing sources, reported that Sony is going to produce only one million copies of PS VR 2 in the first quarter of 2023 instead of the previously planned two million. However, Sony later issued a denial.

PS VR2 pre-orders did not meet Sony‘s expectations. According to Bloomberg, because of this, the company has revised its plans for the production of the headset, and now it is going to produce only one million devices in the first quarter. Initially, there should have been 2 million of them .

In 2023, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are going to skip E3, IGN reports, citing sources. If the portal’s information is confirmed, it will be the first time that all three companies do not participate in the exhibition.

On January 25, Jim Ryan met with Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition. This is reported by Reuters with reference to sources.

Microsoft has subpoenaed Sony‘s gaming division in court as part of proceedings with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on the purchase of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. The corporation demanded Sony to disclose information about the volume and schedule of game development.

Microsoft continues to try to appease antitrust regulators. Bloomberg sources report that the corporation has offered Sony the right to distribute Call of Duty series games as part of a PS Plus subscription.

This was stated by Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, in a column for The Wall Street Journal. He also confirmed that the corporation offered Sony to sign a contract for a period of 10 years for the release of Call of Duty on the PlayStation.

The corporation reported this in a 111-page report for the British regulator.