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Microsoft agrees to keep Call of Duty on Sony Playstation after it buys Activision Blizzard

By Associated Press - Jul 16, 2023, 01:36 PM ET
Last Updated - Aug 16, 2024, 06:38 AM EDT
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Microsoft struck the deal for Activision in January of 2022 in hopes of expanding its video game imprint beyond Xbox, which has less market share than longtime industry leader Sony and its PlayStation device. The company has been seeking regulatory approval in the U.S. and aboard over the past few months, but it’s been trailed by objections from Sony, which feared losing access to what it describes as a “must-have” game title

Microsoft has signed an agreement with Sony to keep the Call of Duty video game series on PlayStation after the tech giant buys video game maker Activision Blizzard

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft has signed an agreement with Sony to keep the Call of Duty video game series on the PlayStation console after the tech giant acquires video game maker Activision Blizzard. 

The announcement was made Sunday in a Twitter post by Phil Spencer, who heads up Microsoft’s Xbox division. 

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Call of Duty has been at the center of a corporate tug-of-war between Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s PlayStation over Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, which makes the best-selling Call of Duty lineup.  

As it tried to persuade regulators around the world to approved the deal, Microsoft pledged that Call of Duty would appear on Nintendo’s Switch console, Nvidia’s cloud gaming service and other platforms for at least a decade. Until now, Sony hadn’t been officially part of that list. 

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