Report: Microsoft and Sony might have worked out a deal for Call of Duty - Windows Central

What you request to know

• Microsoft is presently moving to get Activision Blizzard for astir $69 billion. 
• The woody is undergoing regulatory review, and has seen PlayStation genitor institution Sony propulsion for the woody to beryllium blocked. 
• Microsoft has reportedly offered Sony a 10-year woody for Call of Duty to stay connected PlayStation consoles. 
• According to a caller report, Microsoft and Sony precocious held meetings to sermon nonstop presumption for the deal.

As Microsoft continues to effort and adjacent its biggest woody ever, we're getting much and much reports of antithetic imaginable actions and concessions Microsoft volition consent to successful bid to get the woody finished.

The latest study comes from SeekingAlpha (opens successful caller tab), which reports that Microsoft and Sony precocious held meetings to sermon presumption and supply assurances that aft the woody closes, Microsoft volition "allow Activision's games to beryllium played connected the PlayStation console."

This deal, valued astatine astir $69 billion, is the largest acquisition successful video crippled history, and would spot Microsoft adhd Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, and King to the existing Xbox first-party publishers of Xbox Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks.

Sony has repeatedly pushed backmost against the deal, with Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan stating that Microsoft's archetypal three-year connection for Call of Duty remaining connected PlayStation was "inadequate," portion Sony has argued Microsoft volition beryllium capable to rise prices connected Xbox games, Xbox consoles and Xbox Game Pass erstwhile the woody closes.

Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard is presently undergoing regulatory reappraisal successful aggregate countries, including the FTC successful the U.S, the CMA successful the U.K, and the European Commission successful the EU. The woody has truthful acold been approved without restrictions by Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Serbia.

Prior to this latest update, Microsoft reportedly offered Sony 10 years of Call of Duty arsenic a concession to the European Commission successful bid to get support for the deal. Another study precocious indicated the FTC is "likely" to artifact the deal, though it's besides imaginable the regulator is preparing a suit arsenic portion of a determination to question concessions. The newest study indicates that an FTC determination tin beryllium expected by January 2023.

It's worthy emphasizing this is conscionable a report, and however overmuch of a rollercoaster this communicative has been for the past respective months, we'll person to hold and spot conscionable however everything pans retired successful the future.