Microsoft Offers Sony Ten Year Contract For Call Of Duty

Microsoft executive's opinion post in the Wall Street Journal announced that Sony has been offered a 10-year deal by Microsoft to make every new Call of Duty release available on PlayStation the same day it is released on Xbox.

Jim Ryan, the head of Sony's games division, claimed in September that Microsoft's earlier proposal to continue Activision Blizzard's popular game franchise on PlayStation for three years after the present partnership expires was insufficient.

Maker of Xbox In light of growing regulatory scrutiny surrounding its US$69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft has made Sony its most recent offer.

The offer, which was announced in January, has run into regulatory challenges in the US, the UK, and the EU. Sony has criticised the agreement and even called for a regulatory veto.

“The main supposed potential anticompetitive risk Sony raises is that Microsoft would stop making Call of Duty available on the PlayStation. But that would be economically irrational,” Microsoft president Brad Smith said in the WSJ opinion piece.

The offer, which was announced in January, has run into regulatory challenges in the US, the UK, and the EU. Sony has criticised the agreement and even called for a regulatory veto.