No further details about the “binding agreement” were shared by Spencer, so it’s unclear exactly how long it is for or what it entails.
Don’t assume because it just makes you look like an ass
Microsoft have since confirmed it’s for 10 years and only for CoD.
Basically Sony fucked themselves over here. Before this they had an offer of all Activision blizzard games until 2027 at least, now they’ve only got cod.
The offers were 5 years for all ABK games or 10 years for only COD. When you look at the pipeline of upcoming ABK games, what is even coming out in the next 5 years that would make up for 5 years of lost COD revenue? Plus, if the new consoles are really out in 2028 having COD not playable on the PS6 would be huge for the start of the generation. Sony probably made the right choice here
They’re not removing cod from PlayStation though. Doing so would essentially kill the franchise. Microsoft know this. Valve understand this, which is why they said they don’t need to sign a contract.
The reality is that Sony went from having cod forever + all other ABK games for 5 years, to just cod.
Infinity ward have a brand new action rpg game coming out, along with a survival game from blizzard. Also 5 years is a long time. They could easily pump out 2 titles per dev team in that time, especially from franchises with recent releases like Tony Hawk, crash bandicoot, Spyro, etc.
We know Sony made the wrong choice here because of the emails Jim Ryan sent. They wanted guaranteed all ABK games in perpetuity. They turned down this exact cod-only deal months ago. Sony signed this deal out of desperation because the ftc failed to protect their market dominance (thankfully and rightly so). It wasn’t a coincidence they signed the deal the day after the ftc lost. They lost all bargaining power so got the bare minimum.
