PlayStation Boss Calls Out Microsoft Over 'Inadequate' Call Of Duty Deal

PlayStation Boss Calls Out Microsoft Over 'Inadequate' Call Of Duty Deal

The console war custody battle over Call of Duty has taken an unlikely turn. In an industry notorious for secrecy and backroom deals, two of the biggest executives in gaming are hashing it out in public. A week after Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said Activision’s hit shooter would remain multiplatform for “at least several more years,” the head of PlayStation, Jim Ryan, has put out his own statement clarifying the deal would only last three years and “failed to take account of the impact on our gamers.”

“I hadn’t intended to comment on what I understood to be a private business discussion, but I feel the need to set the record straight because Phil Spencer brought this into the public forum,” Ryan said in a statement to GamesIndustry.biz on Wednesday. It continued:

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