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Ryuu96 on 28 January 2023
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Goatseye said:
Spade said:

Phil gotta weird obsession to replying to these fanboys lol. F a tim dog. @Goatseye 

🙂

Your first post in Empire is a f*cking emoticon.

crissindahouse said:
Ryuu96 said:

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...

Yup. If the deal is blocked then Sony shouldn't be allowed to make anymore marketing deals with Activision, nobody should, since apparently CoD is the one IP carrying entire companies on their shoulders and without it they're doomed to collapse to nothing, Lol. Course that won't happen though and if the deal is blocked, Sony will continue having advantages on CoD over PlayStation after bitching about parity to regulators.

WoodenPints said:

What do they mean by Quality and playability parity, Does it mean they will have to lower the graphics on the Series X version to be on par with weaker hardware?

It likely means that, yes, Xbox Series X CoD will have to be on par with PS5 CoD which is ridiculous considering Series X is more powerful but hey, market leader gets whatever it wants, that's how we protect competition right? /s