The redemption ofActivision-Blizzard by Microsoft is far from overit must be said Jim Ryan, president of Sony Interactive Entertainment is obviously afraid of losing the call of duty on playstationthose who sell like hot cakes (the last CoD: MWII showed it again recently).
On his side, Phil Spencer, Branch Manager Xbox at the house of Microsoftis more open to discussionrecalling at the beginning of the month that the next call of duty will come out of course playstation of sony. But Jim Ryan doesn’t really believe ithe revealed the existence of a contract between Microsoft and sonythe first promising to release the call of duty on playstation until 2026 or 2027. A contract is a bunch of small lines with sometimes a little vague meaning, but Phil Spencer doesn’t want to scam anyone.
In a recent podcast from Decodethe boss of Xbox so reiterated his comments about wanting to take out the call of duty on playstation and detailed his point of view to avoid the tricks:
The point isn’t that at some point I pull the rug out from under the PlayStation 7’s feet by saying ‘ah ha, you just haven’t written the contract for long enough’. There is no contract that could be written and say “forever”.
This idea of us writing a contract with the words ‘forever’ I think is a bit silly, but to make a longer term commitment that Sony and the regulators would be comfortable with, I didn’t no problem with that.
Regarding the distribution format, Phil Spencer also reassures:
Call of Duty, natively, on PlayStation. No link to Game Pass registration, no streaming. If they want a streaming version of Call of Duty, we can do that too, just like we do on our own consoles.
Obviously, between the declarations launched during the public interviews and the contracts signed in private, there is a whole world. As a reminder, the redemption ofActivision-Blizzard by Microsoft is analyzed by several market regulators to avoid any monopoly or situation of unfair competition, in particular in the European Union and the United Kingdom. In other words, the champagne will stay cool for a while at Microsoft pending the finalization of this purchase at 68.7 billion dollars.
You can find Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II at €58.73 on Amazon.
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