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| Ryuu96 said: Sony will definitely still be offered a contract I would think, if only for Microsoft to continue to look good to regulators and because they've already made that public commitment now. But I imagine it'll be worse than the one CMA could have enforced, it'll likely be a bog standard contract, it surely won't have any of that stuff about someone watching over Microsoft to ensure parity in tech/content and Sony will be paying whatever Microsoft deems appropriate for PS+ inclusion. Not that they even need a contract, Minecraft doesn't have one, but oh well. |
Yes since they are not entitled to it through behavioral remedies with the CMA, there's should be no parity watchdog (poor DF they were getting ready to expand... JK). Let see if Sony's pride prevent them from signing a contract or they take their loss and expose their bad faith on this.
Food for though. Sony already have marketing contract for like another 2 years that give them exclusive content on CoD and MS should be expected to follow through on those but if Sony sign a new 10 years deal it is possible that it is worded to take precedence over any existing deals regarding the franchise for Sony. So maybe there's a reason for Sony not to sign a contract but by doing so they would again also expose how much of a bad faith their past argument were as they would show no fear that MS remove CoD from PS pass those 2 years.
Last edited by EpicRandy - on 24 March 2023
