Phil Spencer shares intent to honour all previous agreements and desire to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation

[andrew_schmidt (HaloGaming08)]

@Biggzy

That’s just direct revenue. Who knows how many PS Plus subscribers they would lose and console sales. It’s certainly something that Sony will try to avoid.

unless they give MS what they want which is gamepass with the full xbox experience on playstation sony aint getting new COD least thats what i would think

[FacelessSamurai]

@andrew_schmidt

unless they give MS what they want which is gamepass with the full xbox experience on playstation sony aint getting new COD least thats what i would think

I don’t know if MS really wants that to be honest. I’m of those that thinks MS wants to control somewhat where it is distributed. Having Gamepass on PC or a streaming stick doesn’t take away from Xbox ses, but having Gamepass on PS5 means lost Xbox sales as those clients could convert over to the Xbox side and spend much more in the Xbox Ecosystem.

I don’t think we will see Gamepass in any form on a Playstation device.

[BadNews]

@Dom

Microsoft to Sony: look at me, I decide your revenue now

Honestly think they’ll lose much more than that. If the COD crowd moves onto xbox then they’ll lose out on microtransactions for other games. Plus, they will lose out on future sales due to people gravitating to where their friends are playing

[Biggzy (Hassan)]

@andrew_schmidt

unless they give MS what they want which is gamepass with the full xbox experience on playstation sony aint getting new COD least thats what i would think

If that is what Microsoft will be looking for, which I think it is, then that is something that Sony has to decide if it is worth it. But it seems like Microsoft is willing to do a deal at the very least.

[andrew_schmidt (HaloGaming08)]

@Biggzy

If that is what Microsoft will be looking for, which I think it is, then that is something that Sony has to decide if it is worth it. But it seems like Microsoft is willing to do a deal at the very least.

yea but sony has a ego and is very stubborn

[GoroMajima]

@Butters

No, I mean literally a first party Version of GamePass. So the Xbox games natively on PlayStation.

Thats a dumb idea and MS would be dumb to do it.

[anon81312630]

When the deal closes Time for Xbox to make a 2.0 version of this rolling up to Sony HQ with Crash like how they did to Nintendo back in the day.

Crash Bandicoot Commercial at Nintendo

[TavishHill]

@SchwiftyFella

He says he want to keep CoD on playstation not that it will happen or that they reached an agreement.

He literally cannot reach any agreement as Microsoft doesn’t own the company yet…what he says in the tweet is legally as far as he can possibly go in the direction of confirming CoD will continue to be multiplat going forward.

[Roronoa_Zoro90]

@BadNews

Honestly think they’ll lose much more than that. If the COD crowd moves onto xbox then they’ll lose out on microtransactions for other games. Plus, they will lose out on future sales due to people gravitating to where their friends are playing

Yeah, that’s not the real sum, noy even close.

[Fiendflag]

@Roronoa_Zoro90

Yeah, that’s not the real sum, noy even close.

From what I understand Sony will lose money from selling CoD (and a very big percentage of the fanbase is buying digitally), from DLC/MTX and of course from PS Plus subscriptions. And I am not even taking into consideration having all those people into your ecosystem aka buying other games/MTX/DLC e.t.c.

[Astrakan]

@Astrakan

What if this is part of the end game for them? Wanting some kind of silver bullet so they can get Game Pass on PlayStation, and then have the Series X be their last console.

@Staffy

Fuck man, that would just make me incredibly sad to be honest.

@Xplainin

Yeah I agree. If I can get all of MS exclusives on GP, on a PS5, where I also get all of Sony’s exclusives, why would anyone get an Xbox?

@Astrakan

Grubb’s speculation about the Game Pass version on PlayStation being for Xbox 1st party

I was thinking about this whole “Game Pass on PlayStation” thing earlier today, and it occurred to me that there’s a version of this scenario where Xbox does get Game Pass on PlayStation, but still has incentives for people to buy Xbox consoles.

It’s basically the complete opposite of Jeff Grubb’s speculation:

What if they release a version of Game Pass on PlayStation that is primarily focuses on third party games, and some Xbox owned titles as well? Just not the majority of Xbox first party stuff.

With EA Play there’s already a precedent for PlayStation allowing third party subscriptions on their platform, and so PlayStation Game Pass (by Microsoft) would be a similar service, that focuses on games of publishers who don’t have their own subscription service. Plus a few select Microsoft owned titles, like Call of Duty and Minecraft.

There would obviously be some kind fee structure between Microsoft and Sony, similar to how Sony takes a 30% cut of all games sold on their platform.

They’ve rebranded Xbox Game Pass for PC to simply PC Game Pass, so the even the branding of PlayStation Game Pass would work great.

I feel like this is a bit of a win-win-win… Microsoft gets their Game Pass service on PlayStation. Sony gets another service they can offers their customers, and gets to make a bunch of money without actually doing much work. It would be Microsoft who is responsible for both the technical bit, as well as negotiating with third party publishers. And PlayStation gamers get to continue playing Call of Duty on their platform of choice.

Just a thought.

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@Fiendflag

From what I understand Sony will lose money from selling CoD (and a very big percentage of the fanbase is buying digitally), from DLC/MTX and of course from PS Plus subscriptions. And I am not even taking into consideration having all those people into your ecosystem aka buying other games/MTX/DLC e.t.c.

Thats why xbox shouldn’t even think about dropping mainline cod’s there. Its more lucrative to bring those people over precisely because of your last sentence.