Microsoft’s recent rebuke from the FTC on their huge buyout of Activision Blizzard is making waves. Xbox boss Phil Spencer talked up the FTC lawsuit, and how it’s likely PlayStation’s fault.

Spencer was talking on the Second Request podcast (via VGC) where he claimed Sony’s PlayStation brand is behind the blocking of their Activision Blizzard buyout.

“There’s really only been one major opposer to the deal and it’s Sony, and Sony’s trying to protect their dominance on console, and the way they grow is by making Xbox smaller,” Spencer said.

He added, “[Sony] has a very different view of the industry than we do. They don’t ship their games day and date on PC, they do not put their games into their subscription when they launch their games.”

Spencer went on to reiterate that Microsoft’s buyout of Activision Blizzard would help boost their presence in smartphone gaming – an argument they’re making against claims they’ll stop putting Call of Duty on Sony’s platform.

“Because Sony’s leading all of the dialogue around why this deal shouldn’t go through to protect their dominant position in console, the thing that they grab onto is Call of Duty,” Spencer said. “And we’ve said over and over that we’ll make a multi-year, 10-year commitment to PlayStation.”

Just prior to the FTC filing a lawsuit to block the merger, Microsoft also committed to a 10-year plan to actually bring Call of Duty to Nintendo’s aging Switch hardware – read more about that here.