Sony agrees to Call of Duty deal with Microsoft: Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer revealed a “binding agreement” to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation on his Twitter account.
The deal could be similar to the 10-year deal between Microsoft and Nintendo, as well as the various deals Microsoft has made with cloud gaming platforms, The Verge said.
The news can be seen as a manifestation of the end of a bitter battle between the tech giants, which began with Sony’s rejection of the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard: company management feared that Microsoft could make Call of Duty an exclusive. Xbox or even sabotage the PlayStation version of the game.
The discussion corporations lasted 18 months from Microsoft’s first proposal. At the same time, Sony closely followed hearings in the US Federal Trade Commission case against Microsoft (the FTC intended to block the $75 billion deal in line with antitrust laws).
It should be noted that on Friday, the FTC just ruled. In the United States, the commission’s claims have been rejected both by a federal court in San Francisco and now by a district court of appeals. As a result, only British regulators stand in the way of the deal, which suddenly announced that they would push back a deadline set on July 18 to block the deal to August 29.
UK regulators explain this decision by the fact that they received a “detailed and comprehensive analysis from Microsoft” and must reconsider their conclusions due to “significant changes in circumstances and special reasons.”
Taken together, this means that Microsoft can complete the merger in the resulting gap.
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