2023-07-16 15:18:50
Sony will have done everything it could to block the takeover of Activision Blizzard King and delay the deadline, but the company agreed to a deal to obtain the Call of Duty license on PlayStation.
After the acquisition of Activision by Microsoft, Call of Duty will remain (for a time) on PlayStation
It’s a historic agreement for Microsoft and Sony and it was Xbox boss Phil Spencer who announced it on Sunday.
We are pleased to announce that Microsoft and PlayStation have signed a binding agreement for Call of Duty to remain on PlayStation following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard. We look forward to a future where gamers globally have more choices for playing their favorite games.
The details of this agreement are not known at the moment, but we can imagine that they are close, even the same as the agreement that Microsoft has signed with Nintendo or GeForce NOW, which is a guarantee that Call of Duty will be released. on these platforms for the next ten years after the Activision takeover.
This agreement between Microsoft and Sony comes at the very end of an 18-month long legal battle. Public and private communications from Phil Spencer and Jim Ryan, boss of PlayStation, have continued to punctuate the calendar in recent months. A completely new situation in the video game world, which highlighted the strategies of each other, but above all the strong reluctance of Sony that the takeover could take place.
In the feedback from hearings and exchanged emails, we learned that Jim Ryan had indicated that he did not want an agreement for Call of Duty, but simply to block the takeover.
In the end, and realizing no doubt that the situation was going to completely escape him, PlayStation seems to have folded, a sign that the formalization of the takeover should not take too long.
Some expect an announcement as soon as Monday or Tuesday, but all eyes are now on the CMA, the British regulatory body, which recently announced a resumption of talks with Microsoft to find a suitable outcome for everyone.
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