Pressing forward on his worries on how much leverage Microsoft will gain if allowed to purchase Activision Blizzard, Playstation's CEO Jim Ryan stated that Microsoft's post-purchase offering to maintain the Playstation X Call Of Duty collaborations as inadequate.
GamesIndustry.biz reported that they received a reply from Jim Ryan to confirm if is true that Microsoft holded negotiations to have the agreement of Activision and Playstation alive assuming that Microsoft is allowed to buy the parent company in a $69 billion deal and Playstation boss replied that while it is true, apparently, is not on Sony's best interest.
"I hadn’t intended to comment on what I understood to be a private business discussion, but I feel the need to set the record straight because Phil Spencer brought this into the public forum.
Microsoft has only offered Call of Duty to remain on PlayStation for three years after the current agreement between Activision and Sony ends. After almost 20 years of Call of Duty on PlayStation, their proposal was inadequate on many levels and failed to take account of the impact on our gamers. We want to guarantee PlayStation gamers continue to have the highest quality Call of Duty experience, and Microsoft’s proposal undermines this principle."
Reportedly, the current agreement (which includes this year's Modern Warfare 2 Remake) includes 3 releases as Playstation being the focus platform and Microsoft offered a 3 years extension afterwards.
The Activision Blizzard acquisition is pending on regulators approval and already the Saudi Arabian regulator did not object, while in the UK scenario, they recommended a further scrutiny and noise is that the FTC for the USA's side, they are a distance on making an official position in any days now.
Meanwhile, Microsoft publicly acknowledged that main launch for both Activision and Blizzard, including Call Of Duty, are meant to be released on day 1 at Game Pass.
