Fixed it for ya. 

It makes sense for MS to have to pay more for 3rd party exclusive content than sony would. A dev can't sell their game to over half the market when they are exclusive to MS. MS has to pay more to make up for the dev's projected losses of sales of not being on the PS4. 

M$ has moles everywhere though. They have one in EA now. They had one in Nokia.

You even have doppelganger!

so Phil this is your master plan to help X1 ..... man pretty disappointed... (what is your next statement ..sony offer a lollipop to all people who buy a PS4..?)

You (as well as anyone else not directly involved in that companies department) have no idea how much they paid, Activision will try get as much money as possible for the deal and Sony most like did pay in the millions to stop MS getting the deal. MS and Sony would not talk to each other about such a deal as it would undermine what Activision or any other publisher would get in terms of funds, for all Sony knew MS wanted the deal and they had to outbid them.

The denial in this thread is hilarious.

party 💃 pooper 💩 . Let us spin and downplay everything M$ in peace ✌

my favorite part about playstation is how sony makes billions of dollars in profit each quarter in order to spend all sorts of cash on third parties in order to secure deals like these. it wonderful being a fan of one of the most profitable companies in the world.

Well this was obviously going to happen, especially after the Halo championship announcement and even after the marketing rights switched to Sony. Lets see if Sony can do as good of a Job as MS did with COD esports although no doubt it will regress with new competition from Halo.

ummm, I hope you're being saracastic. Sony is in bad shape.

Hopefully third parties take Microsoft up on their money so they can make future, exclusive playstation games. I know I would.