Microsoft Lets Sony Have ‘Several More Years’ Of Call Of Duty, As A Treat - Kotaku

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Sony gets “several much years” of associated custody implicit Call of Duty with Microsoft.Photo: Activision / Kotaku / Barone Firenze (Shutterstock) (Shutterstock)

Good quality PlayStation Call of Duty players: Microsoft says you get to person “several much years” of playing the shoot-bang crippled connected your Sony console.

According to The Verge, earlier this twelvemonth Microsoft’s Xbox brag Phil Spencer made that committedness to PlayStation brag Jim Ryan successful a written missive saying that Call of Duty wasn’t going to vanish disconnected the PlayStation storefront anytime soon if Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard is approved by regulators.

“In January, we provided a signed statement to Sony to warrant Call of Duty connected PlayStation, with diagnostic and contented parity, for astatine slightest respective much years beyond the existent Sony contract, an connection that goes good beyond emblematic gaming manufacture agreements,” Phil Spencer, caput of Xbox, told The Verge.

While precisely however agelong “several much years” mightiness beryllium is unknown, PlayStation players who feared that the CoD franchise would go Xbox-exclusive alongside the likes of Bethesda’s upcoming abstraction action-rpg, Starfield, tin respire casual for astatine slightest a small portion longer.

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Back successful January, Microsoft announced it was closing successful connected a $70 cardinal woody to bargain Activision Blizzard, the steadfast down Overwatch, Diablo, Call of Duty, and Candy Crush. Currently, Microsoft is arguing with lawmakers and regulatory groups astir the satellite saying that its woody is connected the up and up and won’t harm the gaming industry.

Read More: Sony Says Call Of Duty Is An ‘Essential Game’ Series While Microsoft Argues It Ain’t

One specified assertion from the Xbox institution appeared successful a study from the New Zealand Commerce Commission published successful June, wherever the monolithic corp asserted that determination was “nothing unsocial astir the video games developed and published” by Activision and that nary of the games, including the Call of Duty franchise, were “must have” games for immoderate rival gaming institution oregon level holder.

Shortly aft Microsoft announced its acquisition of Activision, Sony revealed plans to bargain Destiny 2 shaper Bungie for $3.6 cardinal and invested $1 cardinal into Epic Games. Sony’s concern successful Epic Games marked the PlayStation company’s 3rd caller spending spree, arsenic it bought Bluepoint Games, the workplace down the well-regarded PS5 Demon’s Souls remaster, past year.

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