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Microsoft offers Sony 10-year contract
for 'Call of Duty' releases on PlayStation - WSJ
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[December 06, 2022]
(Reuters) - Microsoft has offered Sony a 10-year contract to make
each new "Call of Duty" release available on PlayStation the same day it
comes to Xbox, according to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal
on Monday from a Microsoft executive. |
Attendees walk past a Microsoft Xbox sign
opposite a Sony PlayStation sign at the Electronic Entertainment Expo,
or E3, in Los Angeles, California, United States, June 16, 2015.
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Sony's gaming chief Jim Ryan said in September that Microsoft's
earlier offer to keep the popular game series made by Activision
Blizzard on PlayStation for three years after the current
agreement expires was inadequate.
Xbox maker Microsoft's latest offer to Sony comes as it faces
increased regulatory scrutiny over its $69 billion buyout deal
for Activision Blizzard.
The offer, made in January, has attracted regulatory headwinds
in the European Union, Britain and in the United States, with
Sony criticizing the deal and even calling for a regulatory
veto.
Reuters reported last month that Microsoft's remedy would
consist mainly of a 10-year licensing deal to Playstation owner
Sony.
"The main supposed potential anticompetitive risk Sony raises is
that Microsoft would stop making 'Call of Duty' available on the
PlayStation. But that would be economically irrational,"
Microsoft President Brad Smith said in the WSJ opinion piece.
Microsoft also said on Monday it was raising the prices of new
Xbox games to $70 from $60 starting in 2023, according to a
company spokesperson.
(Reporting by Eva Mathews in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak
Dasgupta)
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