![]() Per Activision's chief communication officer and executive vice president Lulu Cheng Meservey, Ryan said as much during a meeting in Brussels on February 21.Īccording to Meservey, "Microsoft offered Sony (the dominant console leader for well over a decade, with 80% market share) a 10-year agreement on far better terms than Sony would ever get from. This is according to a comment said to have been made by Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan, who allegedly stated Sony isn't interested in a Call of Duty deal. It seems there is more to it than Call of Duty, as apparently Sony, in gerneral, does not want Microsoft to own a major developer such as Activision Blizzard. If it became known that the game’s performance on PlayStation was worse than on Xbox, Call of Duty gamers could decide to switch to Xbox, for fear of playing their favorite game at a second-class or less competitive venue." "Indeed, as Modern Warfare 2 attests, Call of Duty is most often purchased in just the first few weeks of release. Even if such degradations could be swiftly detected, any remedy would likely come too late, by which time the gaming community would have lost confidence in PlayStation as a go-to venue to play Call of Duty. The document further states that Microsoft: "might release a PlayStation version of Call of Duty where bugs and errors emerge only on the game’s final level or after later updates. "These strategies could include: raising the price of Call of Duty on PlayStation degrading the quality and performance of Call of Duty on PlayStation compared to Xbox degrading Call of Duty to ignore PlayStation-specific features (better controller haptics) or not prioritizing investment in such features restricting, degrading, or not prioritizing investment in the multiplayer experience on PlayStation making Call of Duty only available on Game Pass." ![]() "In addition to withholding access to existing or future Call of Duty titles, Microsoft could adopt one or several partial foreclosure strategies to impair PlayStation's competitiveness. ![]() "Microsoft could deploy multiple strategies to fully or partially foreclosure access to Activision content," reads one of the documents. Pack your bags and winter jacket, and prepare to deploy to the Himmelmatt Expo in Modern Warfare 2. ![]()
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