Sony Will Continue To Make More Money For Every Call Of Duty Sold In Microsoft’s Ten Year Deal

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How badly does Microsoft want to close their deal to purchase Activision Blizzard King? Expect to be surprised.

We had previously reported that Sony gets a plum deal with Activision when it comes to Call of Duty. In fact, they get a favorable publisher/platform split for every copy of Call of Duty sold on PlayStation.

Sony themselves revealed this provision in their deal, in documents they gave to the CMA. They argued that even if Microsoft offered them a ten year deal, that they would not receive a deal like this from their competitor.

So guess what? Microsoft has been offering that kind of deal to Sony for Call of Duty.

As summarized by IDAS on ResetEra, from a report originally from Equity Report UK;

“The second lawyer also says that MS is offering provisions ensuring that Sony gets the game at a discount of the Microsoft price and any new version of the game at the same time as MS.”

Microsoft is now willing to go as far as to propose an unfavorable situation for them when it comes to Call of Duty. If Sony accepts this arrangement, they will maintain a larger margin for every Call of Duty game sold on PlayStation than Microsoft gets on Xbox. Sony’s competitor, Microsoft, will themselves be paying them that margin, and they have to do it for the next decade, all the way through the upcoming tenth generation of video game consoles.

At this point, one would be wondering what Microsoft is even going to get out of this deal. But that line of thinking would be based on the idea that Microsoft is trying to dominate consoles, the way it did during the original launch of the Xbox under Bill Gates’ watchful eye.

Xbox head honcho Phil Spencer recently spoke at length about the finer details of this in a new interview with the