S, he has been the most successful CEO for any console maker in gaming history, not only in revenue, profits or active userbase, and many other metrics related to his console.
He faced covid and MS buying ABK. He managed to not only continue getting CoD, but also the rest of the MS games, making them to bend the knee and start publishing even the XGS on PS. He also very successfully expanded to GaaS with (at least so far) MLB, GT7, Destiny 2 and Helldivers 2, to PC and cinema/tv show. Broke GOTY awards record with TLOU2. Broke fastest selling records with TLOU2, GoWR, Spider-Man 2 and Helldivers 2. Grew all their teams and acquired many great or useful ones. Also did cleaned the house restructuring Japan Studio and shutting down Pixel Opus and London Studio. Spent record investments on 1st party games, 2nd party games and 3rd party exclusives. Also highly improved their game subs in many ways and merged them, plus the quality of the PS cloud gaming streaming quality highly improved too.
He also started to work on an expansion to Asian and mobile with the ports, but did make deals with a ton of key Asian, Chinese, Korean or Japanese devs to grow in Asia not only in console, but also in PC and mobile, since many of these devs are working to adapt Sony IPs to mobile, something that will be key in the future, like to have PS cloud there and in smart tvs, something they are also working on.
He left PS in the top of the market and gaming history, and growing in console, shooters, MP/GaaS, PC, mobile, movie/tv shows, game subs, cloud gaming, hardware sales, software sales, 1P sales and so on. So at least during some years will continue growing.
Fact of the matter, do you know when those negotiations started for Actvision? If so, I would like to know. You act like you have some inside information.
As I remember Kotick (or Spenccer) mentioned the date in an interview. As I remember the talks started 2-3 days after that mail that "leaked" Phil Spencer sent to their employees where he said that "MS was going to reconsider their relationship with Activision Blizzard" after the scandal created a big controversy in the news.
Before that, Kotick unsuccessfully tried to sell ABK to others like Facebook.
Edit: found this
https://web.archive.org/web/2022012...misconduct-fallout-at-gamemaker?sref=uE15RiYa