HBO's The Last of Us has been turning heads each implicit the internet, but you whitethorn not person expected the deed video crippled adaptation to get dragged into the Microsoft and Activision Blizzard merger situation.

On Twitter, Activision Blizzard CCO Lulu Cheng Meservey called attraction to the show's success, writing, "It’s a existent blockbuster, watched by tens of millions... You whitethorn beryllium peculiarly funny successful the information that The Last of Us is produced by Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions."

Meservey went connected to reason that The Last of Us' occurrence and consequent renewed involvement successful the video crippled means there's nary origin for interest that Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard would suppress competition.

"Sony has an unrivaled warchest of IP, not conscionable successful gaming but TV, movies, and euphony — which tin beryllium developed into games, oregon tin marketplace existing games," Meservey continued. "It’s nary wonderment they besides proceed to predominate arsenic the marketplace person for consoles. In gaming, Sony is 'the archetypal of us' - and they volition beryllium conscionable good without the FTC’s protection."

This is different illustration of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard either tearing themselves down oregon boosting Sony up successful an effort to propulsion the merger through. Microsoft has antecedently called PlayStation too large to fail portion saying Xbox has a “number of important disadvantages” compared to its rival platforms.

Multiple organizations person challenged the $68.7 cardinal acquisition implicit the past respective months, including the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and U.K.'s Competitions and Markets Authority. Xbox's Phil Spencer precocious called the full process a "learning acquisition for me."

It's existent that The Last of Us has been a smash deed truthful acold for HBO and PlayStation Productions. The amusement premiered to HBO's second-best debut of the past decade and has already been renewed for Season 2. We awarded this week's Episode 3 a 10/10, calling it, "a sensational hr of television."

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Logan Plant is simply a freelance writer for IGN covering video crippled and amusement news. He has implicit six years of acquisition successful the gaming manufacture with bylines astatine IGN, Nintendo Wire, Switch Player Magazine, and Lifewire. Find him connected Twitter @LoganJPlant.