Thats stupid. They need to rip apart every contract and pay the fine. Doubt it is in the billions.
You dont buy an $80 company and start publishing games on that platform just because of some deal. Fuck that deal. This year's CoD NEEDS to be exclusive to Xbox or they wouldve delayed the migration to xbox by a full year. This is the time to strike anyway. What happens if the shortage is over and sony ends up selling another 15 million consoles between january and november? they are already around 20 million. Why let them go up to 35 million in just two years when you have spent $70 billion to ensure they dont sell more consoles?
Turn off all Warzone servers asap. That shouldve been in the purchase contract tbh. The day you sign the deal, warzone becomes unavailable on consoles. Go and buy a series s thats in stores today if you want to continue playing warzone. Warzone is WAY bigger than yearly cod anyway. Way more players and it makes something crazy like $5 million a day. Thats $2 billion a year. You need to sell 30 million copies at $70 to get to that number.
The deal wont be finalized for another year and a half. The gen would be half gone by then. The first 3 years are the most important. Sony might already be at 50 million by the end of 2023 and have all the hardcore high paying customers in their eco system already. Even if they switch then, it's too late.