Depending on the details of the agreement, it may be that Call Of Duty games can arrive early/only on Sony services (as happened with MW 1 and 2 Remstered and Black Ops 3 and 4 on PS Plus)
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Tom Henderson: Sony deal with Activision for Call Of Duty marketing might last until 2025 or 2026
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Depending on the details of the agreement, it may be that Call Of Duty games can arrive early/only on Sony services (as happened with MW 1 and 2 Remstered and Black Ops 3 and 4 on PS Plus)
Hope this deal doesn't prevent the games from hitting Gamepass til 2025 / 2026, if so MS should pay the money to back out of the deal.
This was already known?
Next three games take us to Treyarch's 2024 game since there is a year delay.
Next three games take us to Treyarch's 2024 game since there is a year delay.
Yeah, there's absolutely no way Treyarch is delaying their game for two years.
No it's not. He's saying nothing will change until at least 2025's COD. Unless they plan to release two CODs in 2024 one with Sony marketing deal and one without?
2026 is used in case COD really does become a bi-annual franchise, Microsoft won't have full control of it until 2025 or 2026. However, I suspect Microsoft will push for a new COD in 2025 to get the day one action started.
I mean I assume all the previous titles will hit which will be a boon in itself. But even if that means you can't do that years newest title till the deal is done, that's fine because MS would still be making bank from the CoD titles regardless
It's not fine for me. I would rather not pay for some of the COD games.
So things should change in 2025 or 2026, what was said in the tweet
Read the thread title. It's wrong.
Sony has marketing with COD until 2024 not until 2025/2026.
MS will defintely find a way to get all those CoD games on GP sooner rather than later and as you said either way they make money off the IP.
Its the next 3 games
So MW2 and Warzone 2 this year and whatever they drop next year. Cause they are dropping a game next year
So 2024 is when Microsoft will have it. Not 2025/2026
How is he doing the math wrong?
Sony marketing on 2024's COD, which means Microsoft won't really take over until at least 2025's COD.
Xbox said cod is staying on Ps. They expressed interest in more AB IPs going to Sony and nintendo. I imagine they will do it.
Activision to Delay Next Yearās Planned Call of Duty Game
Activision Blizzard Inc. will delay a Call of Duty game that had been planned for next year, the first time the franchise will be without an annual mainline release in nearly two decades, according to people familiar with the plan.
www.bloomberg.com
Warzone 2 is also reported to come out next year, not this year.
Doubt it for legacy COD games. If it's anything like the Capcom deal, Sony just has right of first refusal for one year. But who knows, maybe these multi-game deals are more extensive and the right last multiple years.
I didnt even notice the muddled wording in the title, but the 2024 thing is when it ends and the *change* occurs when the next game hits being end of 2025 the earliest.
I still think they release something alongside Warzone 2 next year. Even if its a remaster of a old COD.Activision to Delay Next Yearās Planned Call of Duty Game
Activision Blizzard Inc. will delay a Call of Duty game that had been planned for next year, the first time the franchise will be without an annual mainline release in nearly two decades, according to people familiar with the plan.
Warzone 2 is also reported to come out next year, not this year.
The report didn't say that Sony paid for "3 call of duty's" it said they paid for "[Modern Warfare 2], Warzone 2, and Treyarch's game in 2024".
No company would ever do marketing deals on just years.
I think I also misinterpreted what you meant by back out of the deal too lol I thought you meant to cancel the Activision purchase in general. I was like "well, in terms of solutions that's a step backwards" šš my bad
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Activision to Delay Next Yearās Planned Call of Duty Game
Activision Blizzard Inc. will delay a Call of Duty game that had been planned for next year, the first time the franchise will be without an annual mainline release in nearly two decades, according to people familiar with the plan.
Warzone 2 is also reported to come out next year, not this year.
MWII - 2022
WZII - 2023
Treyarch - 2024
Which means that Microsoft could do whatever they want with new games only when the marketing for the 2025 game begins.
MS will undoubtedly get these games on Gamepass once the deal is closed. They can still honour the marketing deal (exclusive association of a brand to a console) and launch day 1 on GP. The marketing wording is boilerplate wording used on most contracts (Zhuge confirmed) which I doubt Sony would take action on if MS went ahead.
No company will ever pay 10s of millions of dollars for marketing just for the game to launch on a competing service before theirs.
Maybe if Microsoft agrees to launch it on PS+ day one as well?
If MW2 somehow shits the bed... and then the next one that's getting an extra year does too... then MAYBE I'd agree. No reason to expect that atm though
I assume the CoD deal is way more strict than the RE8 one, considering it's multiyear deal and not game by game case. Shouldn't affect legacy CoD tho, but it's not like many people play them.
Absolutely nobody here knows what these contracts entail outside of very broad generalities, but people will surely chime in to tell us what the specifics of the contracts are what these companies can and cannot do.
I guess that would make Sony's deal with Activision at least ten years long since they started the partnership since Black Ops 3.
I need to see the fine print line that Sony wrote up 6 years ago that very clearly says "NO GAMEPASS"
Just wondering, is there actually a correlation between the marketing deal and a game appearing on Xbox GP?
We've seen examples and have had industry experts comment on those examples saying they're standard practice.
I'd gladly eat my hat if somehow this marketing deal, that Sony spent probably hundreds of millions on, allowed Activision to turn around and grab a Game Pass bag especially without giving Sony the right of first refusal.
For the next 3-4 years.
Interesting.
Yup, every single time, lol.
Interesting.
Yup, every single time, lol.
As always, one of the few I sit up and pay attention to when they chime in on topics.
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2026 seems to be little forced, but 2025 might actually depends on how long the live service legs of the Treyarch game will be. Sony could promote the game until August or September 2025 if new content keeps to be added.