How did you decide you were correct? The other guy shared a Reuters article. What did you present?
UK watchdog recommends Xbox Activision deal for ‘in-depth investigation’ amid competition concerns
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I really think sony should just make a public statement and just quote the UK CMA verbatim. Heck get apple, amazon, nintendo or whoever to sign on. Call MS out on lying and using their monopoly of windows to smother competition.
MS should just say CoD2k23 will release on PS5 as soon as Series X|S gets God of War 
MS should just say CoD2k23 will release on PS5 as soon as Series X|S gets God of War
Surely not. GoW is 1st party created franchise, Call of Duty is not.
Yes, that sounds equally stupid.MS should just say CoD2k23 will release on the Switch as soon as Series X|S gets Mario Odyssey
Its amazing how phil come sout here and plays good guy "aw shucks when we all play we all win" and is out here buying publishers wholesale LYING about "not taking games away from consumers" and then when it comes out its only "until the contract expires." Hope the CMA strikes this deal down.
Pretty much sure if this deal should fall,
(but I don’t believe it will), then Microsoft goes all in buying EA.
They were being pressured not blocked, they killed the deal not regulators. Be wrong and let it go.
It’s the narrative they try to push everytime.Im loving how some are seeing this and be like “poor microsoft”
I wouldn’t accept that if I were Sony. It’s shady and Microsoft is a known liar. One shouldn’t trust Microsoft.So allegedly Microsoft actually sent over a signed agreement to Sony about COD:
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Microsoft will keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for ‘several more years’ beyond existing deal
Microsoft sent Sony a letter committing to a longer than usual deal.www.theverge.com
I still find it... a bit.. ODD.. MS doesn't just say "Will continue to release future COD games on Playstation"...
Because.. like those words aren't hard to type or say, yet they keep not saying that lol
Sony just need to reply to sign an actual contract.So allegedly Microsoft actually sent over a signed agreement to Sony about COD:
Microsoft will keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for ‘several more years’ beyond existing deal
Microsoft sent Sony a letter committing to a longer than usual deal.
I still find it... a bit.. ODD.. MS doesn't just say "Will continue to release future COD games on Playstation"...
Because.. like those words aren't hard to type or say, yet they keep not saying that lol
Letter of intent means nothing at all.
FYI, CMA can prevent mergers / acquisitions from companies not based in the UK.
CMA blocks planned Cargotec / Konecranes merger
The CMA has blocked the proposed merger between Cargotec and Konecranes after its in-depth investigation identified substantial competition concerns.
CMA directs Facebook to sell Giphy
The CMA requires Facebook (which has recently renamed itself ‘Meta’) to sell Giphy, after finding that the deal could harm social media users and UK advertisers.
Giphy is still under appeal, btw.
Why? CoD will continue to be released on PS as they always have been and as MS and Activision said that will continue. Sony has nothing to announce.
MS already said future CoD will continue releasing on PS day one with all the content and that will continue doing it beyond the games that they already have signed with Sony. If fact they said that plan even to start releasing them on Switch.MS should just say CoD2k23 will release on PS5 as soon as Series X|S gets God of War
And did use Minecraft as example, whose all their post acquisition console games and dlcs got released day one on rival consoles.
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You missed out on the January agreement thing?
Apparently, they sent an agreement to Sony in January 2022, mentioning that they will release COD on PS for "several years beyond the existing agreement" implying one day they can make it exclusive.
Xbox is a known liar company. The contracts end in 2025 (I think). They can decide in 2027 to make COD exclusive and say, "okay, that's it. We published COD on PS for 2 "several" years and have fulfilled our commitment."
All this time they have been publicly implying something else. I hope Sony and Regulators use this information to corner MS.
I can’t believe more people don’t clearly see this is what’s happening. Or maybe they just choose not to see it.
To wit.No different than what numerous other publishers are doing, including Sony.
And MS has pledged to keep games like CoD on PlayStation. And they wouldn’t bother to remove the games from mobile or PC.
Again, big bag of nothing.
edit, on the front page of this forum right below this thread there is a thread where you are wanting Sony to buy FromSoftware, who made basically the only great game of 2022 thus far and have consistently provided amazing multi platform games. Unlike Microsoft, if Sony were to buy FS, it actually would remove games from the competition because they sure as hell wouldn’t make the games on Xbox and even PC would be delayed. So I guess it isn’t a negative if Sony does it
That’s essentially the same thing lol. You don’t know how this works.
I dunno. If they spent so much time trying to acquire the biggest 3rd party publisher in the world, only to fail, think it'll be a bit before they try again with a different publisher. I imagine it would be quite the mental blow to MS and get laughed at for a bit.