{"id":21166,"date":"2022-12-06T11:12:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T11:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/microsoft-formally-confirms-10-year-playstation-call-of-duty-contract-offer\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T11:12:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T11:12:19","slug":"microsoft-formally-confirms-10-year-playstation-call-of-duty-contract-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/microsoft-formally-confirms-10-year-playstation-call-of-duty-contract-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft formally confirms 10-year PlayStation Call of Duty contract offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nMicrosoft has formally confirmed its offer of a 10-year contract to keep releasing Call of Duty on PlayStation platforms after its planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn an opinion article on the deal published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/microsofts-activision-blizzard-acquisition-is-good-for-gamers-competition-sony-cross-play-ftc-11670260780\">Wall St Journal<\/a>,  Microsoft president Brad Smith committed to making its 10-year COD contract &#8220;legally enforceable by regulators in the US, UK and European Union&#8221; &#8211; territories in which the company was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/us-competition-regulator-likely-to-challenge-microsoft-activision-deal\">previously<\/a> felt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/uks-competition-regulator-to-undertake-in-depth-investigation-of-microsoft-activision-deal\">to be struggling<\/a> to get its acquisition agreed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/microsoft-likely-to-make-eu-concessions-in-activision-blizzard-deal-soon\">without making some sort of concessions<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe majority of the opinion piece repeats the same arguments for the deal we&#8217;ve heard from Microsoft many times before &#8211; that it would be good for both consumers and game developers, and that Microsoft is still struggling in a sector where it is &#8220;stuck behind Sony&#8217;s dominant PlayStation and the Nintendo Switch&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/microsoft-formally-confirms-10-year-playstation-call-of-duty-contract-offer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. 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