Not gonna happen. Microsoft will sue.
You donât think ms would let cod slide?
The other stuff about all abk games and bethesda games going mupltiplat is insane but just cod isnât that crazy.
Yes. While it might be possible for Microsoft to release COD on other home consoles but there wonât be any contract in perpetuity and of course Microsoft wonât agree to release COD on other competiting services. Even then I highly doubt that Microsoft will go further than just not removing Warzone 2 from other platforms. And courts will laugh anybody out of the room if they come complaining regarding which COD is real COD - Warzone 2 or mainline COD 
To draw a parallel - imagine FTC asking Netflix to release its movies in Blockbuster and other services for perpetuity. Not a single company would agree to such contract. Or imaging FTC asking Disney to release Star Wars on other streaming services forever lol
All in all I am not in favor of any regulation that relies âin future it might potentially happenâ. It is not like the laws should work. Because you just cannot predict the technological advances. Whatâs happen if suddenly everybody will get quantum internet and publishers will be able to deliver content to people without need to use stores? And so on.
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What I think gets missed about allowing CoD on other streaming services is who will pay for it, because we are talking it will cost 100s of millions of dollars here, or is Jason saying that other companies will get it for free?
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Another thing to consider is that when Warzone will become available via cloud (like Fortnite) F2P, you literaly wonât be able to build a case about not allowing it on other platforms.
I donât think there is a chance warzone 2 isnât on playstation, aside from the ftc that would be a bad look for ms, they wouldnât want that. But I agree, ms will keep multiplat whatever they want to stay multiplat, doing that as part of a deal I imagine would set a precedent for the future.
Warzone 2 will stay on Playstation simply because it is gonna be released soon and Microsoft upholds the contracts. And as now they experiment with cloud F2P games, Warzone 2 being F2P is a prime canditate for that. Basically the game will be available everywhere where browser exists. You just cannot argue that Microsoft is making it less available. You just canât build a case for that.
Warzone 2 is exactly that Minecraft (or Fortnite), Brad Smith was talking about. At this point Warzone 2 is bigger than the mainline COD and it gets various crossovers too. Like imagine for example Avatar themed season.
Yeah but thatâs not really my point, Iâm saying even if there were no contracts, the game wasnât announced, and it wasnât going to be available on the cloud, ms would still keep it multiplat.
Not necessary.
Yeah itâs just my opinion.
Seems like the NY´s werenât the only onesâŚdo these things really go far or its potentially âjustâ noise? This is the first time seeing pension funds doing that.
Edit: Though Hoeg clarified the one from NY was just asking for information to potentially sue later or something a long the lines.
Itâs pretty common when a listed company is bought out. Even the Bethesda deal had some legal issues though because it wasnât a publicly traded company they werenât on this scale
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Upon closer inspection, however, Microsoft may now be better situated to become a leader in both the metaverse and gaming realms. âMicrosoft is extremely well-positioned for the metaverse,â Bernstein analyst Mark Moerdler recently told CNBC. âBut I donât think this [acquisition] was purely a metaverse drive. They were also looking for bigger ways to gain depth and breadth in gaming.â
Moerdler anticipated that Microsoft might buy smaller game studios, but ultimately âdecided it was better to make one big [purchase] versus lots of little ones,â he said.
While Activision isnât considered a player in the metaverse â which remains a work in progress with various definitions â one of its videogames offers a good example of how it works. Blizzard released World of Warcraft in 2004, when it was the game studio that later merged with Activision in 2008.
The virtual worlds in those games may not level up to the ones being prognosticated by metaverse proponents, where users are immersed via mixed reality in business meetings, doctor visits, vacations, and all types of ecommerce. Thatâs where Microsoftâs software, cloud computing, gaming and virtual technologies position the company well. And adding Activisionâs gaming capabilities only enhances its outlook.
Damn sounds so dramatic But it is funny that this acquisition affects the world console order 
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Thought the same haha
The most surprising thing in that article is that the merger with Acti and Blizzard happened in 2008
I swear that happened way later than that because I remember when it was announced I despised activision at the time but in 2008 I was busy loving the hell out of CoD4 and WaW, so weird
edit: they bought the majority shares in 2013 which is what made the news, thats what I was thinking of
810,000 in a year is actually extremely low compared to other mobile games or Warzone on console
But iv no idea what the monetization is like so maybe thats pretty good
Might be UK only or a typo, the game has made over $1 Billion in revenue last year.
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Possibly Currency conversion. 810 ÂŁ = $999 using todays rates
Yeah, basically over 1b $