{"id":1766975,"date":"2022-09-07T17:25:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T21:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/?post_type=station&p=1766975"},"modified":"2022-09-08T02:58:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T06:58:50","slug":"playstation-ceo-says-xboxs-promise-to-keep-call-of-duty-multi-platform-is-inadequate","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/plato-data\/playstation-ceo-says-xboxs-promise-to-keep-call-of-duty-multi-platform-is-inadequate\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation CEO says Xbox\u2019s promise to keep Call of Duty multi-platform is \u2018inadequate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft is still in the process of acquiring Activision Blizzard<\/a>, and while regulators are cracking down on Microsoft<\/a>, PlayStation is turning up some heat of its own as well. <\/p>\n

Among the largest concerns regulators have expressed was the idea that certain significant game series \u2014 particularly the Call of Duty franchise, one of the largest games series on the planet \u2014 might become platform-exclusive to Xbox as a result of the acquisition. To help get ahead of this question, Xbox has said in multiple settings and ways that Call of Duty will remain available on PlayStation. <\/p>\n

While the first statement only said that the series would remain multi-platform<\/a> for the remainder of the current contract between Activision and PlayStation parent company Sony. On Monday, Xbox president Phil Spencer clarified<\/a> that Microsoft has signed an offer with Sony to keep the game on PlayStation beyond that contract, as well. This deal wasn\u2019t intended to be public, according to Sony, and it still isn\u2019t enough of a guarantee for the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hadn\u2019t intended to comment on what I understood to be a private business discussion, but I feel the need to set the record straight because Phil Spencer brought this into the public forum,\u201d PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan said in a statement to business-focused website Games Industry.biz<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cMicrosoft has only offered for Call of Duty to remain on PlayStation for three years after the current agreement between Activision and Sony ends,\u201d Ryan continued. \u201cAfter almost 20 years of Call of Duty on PlayStation, their proposal was inadequate on many levels and failed to take account of the impact on our gamers. We want to guarantee PlayStation gamers continue to have the highest quality Call of Duty experience, and Microsoft\u2019s proposal undermines this principle.\u201d <\/p>\n

While none of these deals are set in stone, (outside of the initial one, which was made before Microsoft\u2019s acquisition of Activision Blizzard began) both companies have incentive to continue these semi-public negotiations. For Microsoft, it\u2019s a chance to prove to regulators that it\u2019s working with Sony to ensure it doesn\u2019t monopolize franchises like Call of Duty, while Sony has the opportunity to get a more favorable deal while Microsoft is under a bit of extra pressure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1766976,"template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","type":"","auto_type":false,"post":"","stream":"","stream_url":"","waveform_data":[],"duration":0,"bpm":0,"downloadable":false,"download_url":"","purchase_title":"","purchase_url":"","post-count-all":0,"like_count":0,"download_count":0,"editor_note":"","copyright":"","captions":[]},"genre":[78],"artist":[150],"mood":[],"activity":[],"station_tag":[18744,18711,7387,18723,18119,10610,177,18710,18750,18732,3862,9445,18726,13258,18715,18719,18742,18712,18714,18729,5227,11195,18749,16767,3702,18708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station\/1766975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/station"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1766976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=1766975"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=1766975"},{"taxonomy":"mood","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mood?post=1766975"},{"taxonomy":"activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity?post=1766975"},{"taxonomy":"station_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station_tag?post=1766975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}