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[crissindahouse]

Ryuu96 said:

We’ve been clear we’ve offered Sony a 10 year deal to give them parity on timing, content, features, quality, playability, and any other aspect of the game.

We’ve also said we’re happy to make this enforceable through a contract, regulatory agreements, or other means.

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— Frank X. Shaw (@fxshaw) January 28, 2023

Our goal is to bring Call of Duty and other games – as we did with Minecraft – to more people around the world so they can play them where and how they want.

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— Frank X. Shaw (@fxshaw) January 28, 2023

Surely this is all easily proven through the offered contracts?

Maybe they want marketing parity? Lol. It's the only thing not mentioned in the tweet, in which case, Sony isn't lying to the regulators but I feel it would be ridiculous to demand a marketing parity, how would that even work? Would Microsoft not be allowed to do bundles? Not allowed to advertise CoD on Game Pass?

Funny considering CoD on PlayStation doesn't have parity with Xbox right now because of PlayStation...

Yeah, that's truly the biggest joke. MS has to offer Sony full parity in everything even if they own the developer and the franchise while Sony can pay the developer to take content of CoD away from Xbox which is like half as big as Playstation or even smaller.  

If CoD is really that important why did these regulators never care about Sony pushing their console lead even further with CoD deals?

With the logic of regulators, Sony shouldn't be able to pay for any exclusivity deal in gaming anymore. If for FF, Forspoken, Silent Hill, some exclusive advertisement deals, earlier betas or whatever...

Last edited by crissindahouse - on 28 January 2023