Sony's Call of Duty Deal Ends in 2024, But Only Includes Up to Call of Duty 2023 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 July 2023 / 14,312 Views
Sony's current contract with Activision Blizzard for the Call of Duty marketing rights is set to end in 2024, however, it appears it only includes one more game in the franchise.
A poorly redacted document posted as part of today's Microsoft vs FTC hearing reveals the contract Sony has does not include Call of Duty 2024 and this year's Call of Duty is the last entry covered.
"The last game covered by the contract is a Call of Duty title to be released in late 2023," reads the document.
Poorly redacted documents have also revealed Call of Duty has generated over $27 billion in lifetime revenue as of 2020.
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer last week swore under oath to Judge Jaqueline Scott Corley that Microsoft will keep releasing Call of Duty on PlayStation consoles. He clarified this is as long as Sony allows Call of Duty to remain on PlayStation.
"I think as we've seen even in preparation for this that gamers are an active and vocal group," said Spencer at the time. "Us pulling Call of Duty from PlayStation in my view would create irreparable harm for the Xbox brand."
Judge Corley reminded Spencer was under oath and Spencer said, "I would raise my hand, I would do whatever it takes. We have no plan. I'm making a commitment standing here that we will not pull Call of Duty, it is my testimony, from PlayStation.
"As you said, Sony obviously has to allow us to ship the game on their platform. But absent any of that, my commitment is, and my testimony is that we will continue to ship future versions of Call of Duty on Sony's PlayStation 5."
Microsoft in February signed a "binding 10-year legal agreement" to bring Call of Duty games to Nintendo platforms and has offered the same deal to Sony to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for 10 years.
Thanks, Insider Gaming.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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What was this deal. Sony to spin cod as an exclusive titles based on advertising? Because I remember some people I served with in the military believed and falsely boasted on cod being Playstation. Just saying . My time in the navy ending in late 2018 but some people think cod is exclusive
It was a marketing deal, but also allowed PS owners first rights to betas and timed exclusive game modes. As well as console bundles. You definitely saw the "PlayStation exclusive" sticker on the console bundles. Referring to the game modes, but still did its job.
A lot of casuals believe that the system where the marketing is done is exclusive. That is why Sony and MS have paid good money for a lot of exclusive marketing.
Yes, I think this is especially true with Call of Duty (and FIFA and Madden), as many of the players are hardcore players of that game and only that game. So they're not hanging out in gaming forums or reading gaming news.
Do we expect that there will be a Call of Duty 2024? They skipped 2022, so is it not possible that they're moving to a biannual cycle? Or is the assumption that they just skipped one year, so each of the three main studios will need to release a new game every 4 years instead of every 3?
PS will have to sign Xbox CoD deal very soon. How the tables have turned.
Bobby tried to extend the deal with Sony if the deal fails =p
Nope. Phil sweared under oath to keep CoD on PS5.
This is Sony's exclusive marketing deal and timed exclusive DLC deal ending, not CoD support on PS itself. CoD will keep releasing on PS regardless of rather the acquisition is approved or not, it just won't have exclusive Playstation marketing and timed exclusive DLC after 2024, unless the acquistion fails and Sony and Activision negotiate an extension.
