Our desire is to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation - Phil Spencer

Let's see what happens in 2023 and beyond Phil.
We're all here taking your words and your sincere desire to keep COD on Playstation for granted this time :messenger_tears_of_joy:

Imo this will end up with a new business deal between the two parts. Sony will concede something, COD will stay.
 
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assurdum said:
I think they not want neither
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Well they did want to put Game Pass on Playstation. But I don't see it anymore after acquisition anymore. I mean the original idea was to have Game Pass on potentially bigger platform but with acquisitions like this they don't need that anymore. They can get it on Nintendo though.
 
That tweet says less the more you read it tbh

Honoring existing contracts, well yeah, otherwise you'd be in contract violation, the question was always more about the future after that

Our "desire" to keep CoD on PlayStation. Is that every CoD? Are there conditions? Will it have full parity?

I'm half entertaining the idea that they'll use CoD as the wedge to get GamePass on PlayStation, and this tweet does not dissuade me from the notion
 
"Put Game Pass on PS and you can still have COD"
the office finger guns GIF
 
I'm so sorry guys. I saw the tweet and just assumed Good Guy Phil. I see how it can be interpreted differently. Smooth fucking tongue on that guy.
 
ChuckeRearmed said:
Well they did want to put Game Pass on Playstation. But I don't see it anymore after acquisition anymore. I mean the original idea was to have Game Pass on potentially bigger platform but with acquisitions like this they don't need that anymore. They can get it on Nintendo though.
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There is more hope to COD to stay multiplatform than see gamepass on Sony/Nintendo console.
 
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Ass of Can Whooping said:
Why couldn't he have just ended it with the part about contractual obligations? Now people are going to go mad with speculation with that last bit
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This is what they do, speculation keeps the buzz around the acquisition going. Will they? Won't they?

I think the Zenimax acquisition has given us enough of a frame of reference to conclude this: old games will stay (which includes Warzone), new ones will be exclusive. I'd be surprised if it pans out any other way.

But then again, the only thing that vaguely annoys me about this whole deal is that I won't be seeing no more Crash Bandicoot, THPS or Spyro games on PS. Activision/Blizzard doesn't put out the type of games I prefer outside of Sekiro but I think that was a one-off.
 
Tiago Rodrigues said:
Not applied to COD. He said he would honor existing agreements AND their desire to keep COD on PlayStation. He didn't say "we'll keep existing COD on PlayStation" like...why would they remove existing games from a platform in the first place?
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I would look to the desire word with a lens.
 
Existing agreements are the key words in that tweet, however I see it can end up like this:

Worst case scenario: MS honors existing agreements and once they expire then, no more titles will be released other thab MS platforms: XBOX, PC and Gamepass

Best case scenario: MS release a few IPs such as CoD, or only CoD, but with worse performance, less content, and with a high price tag, when the XBOX version gets the real deal included with Game Pass on release day
 
Ass of Can Whooping said:
Why couldn't he have just ended it with the part about contractual obligations? Now people are going to go mad with speculation with that last bit
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Speculation is the best thing for them right now unless they intend to continue COD business same as always. If they get concrete in the negative, the approval process could be adversely affected. If they said future COD's will be published on PS same as before, but do not mean it, they can get in trouble there too.
 
Keep it on PlayStation for £70 a throw, it just brings the value of Gamepass into even greater focus.
The Alpha and Beta tests will probably be on Gamepass, 2 weeks early access on Gamepass for multiplayer to level up your weapons for Warzone etc.
All advertised in game.
It's pretty clever when you think about it.
 
Really looking forward to a year of Phil being just vague enough about his intentions to drive everybody insane.
 
Sounds like a Minecraft situation to me.

I expect that long term they want that PlayStation CoD money anyway, and they get the benefit of exclusive perks and GamePass on their platform
 
Elios83 said:
He stated two different sentences. Honoring the existing contracts AND his desire to keep COD on PS which is a general intents statement.

But hey it's Phil Spencer, usually it's ambiguous or just not true indeed :messenger_grinning_sweat: 👀
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I'm ready to hear Sony don't allow us to put game pass on ps5, sorry COD fans, their fault.
 
Megatron said:
No no no no. Those are all fine. It's only when it goes the other way that it's 'anti-consumer'
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You know right fund a game which probably won't exist without Sony money it's a "bit" different than to buy a publisher and put their famous AAA games exclusively below a paywall service, right?
 
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James Sawyer Ford said:
Sounds like a Minecraft situation to me.

I expect that long term they want that PlayStation CoD money anyway, and they get the benefit of exclusive perks and GamePass on their platform
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Nah, Minecraft sale apparently had a stipulation that it remain on all other platforms. Notch must have included it into the contract. This deal apparently has no such clause.

But yes, they are going to leverage CoD to get gamepass onto playstation and there is no way Sony can say no. Sony will just have to live with $3 royalties on gamepass subs instead of the $21 digital cut on every $70 CoD copy sold.
 
Megatron said:
Lol. He specifically says 'our desire' That is code for 'Yes, Sony will get Call of Duty on Playstation as long as they let us put Gamepass on there."

And keeping Warzone on Playstation would also satisfy that statement. Show me a statement where he says "new iterations in the CoD franchise will come to PS5 available for purchase without needing gamepass" and that will be a real statement.
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Precisely how I read it.

He wants to muscle Gamepass onto Playstation. That's literally all this indicates.
 
Tiago Rodrigues said:
why would they remove existing games from a platform in the first place?
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Because it's a live service game, and the updates and maintenance of that game costs money. Money that you might want to dump into something that will line your competitor's pockets and increase their hardware's market share.
 
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