During Phil Spencer’s time in Microsoft’s lawsuit against the FTC’s veto of the Activision Blizzard purchase, his statements left us with several interesting pearls that leave Sony and PlayStation with a rather complicated picture.
When his turn came, the judge asked Phil Spencer to testify under oath that Call of Duty games will continue to come to PlayStation 5. The response to this was forceful, as the Xbox official confirmed that if they don’t breached this promise, Microsoft would suffer the consequences in a market where the commercial role of Call of Duty on PlayStation is overwhelming.
My pledge is, and my testimony is, that we will continue to release future versions of Call of Duty in the Sony PlayStation 5.
Call of Duty won’t be leaving the PlayStation 5, but what about the following consoles?
Something we must point out is that Phil Spencer repeatedly mentions that the Activision saga will not stop appearing on PlaySation 5, always confirming the 5, not the company as such. This is important, because games will always come out and never leave this console, but eventually, and after Sony’s stubbornness, Microsoft won’t want to ally with them.
It’s true that in the lawsuit, the FTC lawyers remained in a rather aggressive and repulsive tone, but also showed a huge disregard for the industry and Microsoft’s moves with Xbox and Cloud Gaming, so officials had no trouble responding to Microsoft. the questions of these lawyers, always leaving interesting moments like this.
