PlayStation's Jim Ryan Calls Xbox's Call of Duty Promise 'Inadequate on Many Levels'
>Last week, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said new Call of Duty games will remain on PlayStation platforms for "at least several more years" after Activision's current contract with Sony expires. Now, PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan is calling Spencer's offer "inadequate".
>In a statement to GamesIndustry.biz, Ryan said he didn't intend to comment on the business discussion until Spencer brought it into the "public forum."
>Microsoft has only offered for Call of Duty to remain on PlayStation for three years after the current agreement between Activision and Sony ends," Ryan said, "After almost 20 years of Call of Duty on PlayStation, their proposal was inadequate on many levels and failed to take account of the impact on our gamers.
>We want to guarantee PlayStation gamers continue to have the highest quality Call of Duty experience, and Microsoft’s proposal undermines this principle."
>Spencer recently confirmed that future Call of Duty entries will join Xbox Game Pass, but launch on PlayStation on the same day.
>There's no timetable yet as for which upcoming Activision Blizzard games will appear on Game Pass following Xbox's $68.7 billion acquisition of the company.
>Earlier this year, there were reports that Activision wanted to put Call of Duty 2022 (which is now confirmed to be Modern Warfare 2), Call of Duty 2023, and Warzone 2 on PlayStation. After that, though, the future is unclear.
>This year's Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2, is set to launch on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC, as usual. However, the Call of Duty series will seemingly see a shakeup after 2022, as 2023 will reportedly be the first year in nearly two decades without a new Call of Duty.
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Missing Resistance fall of man and Killzone series now Sony?
Call of Duty 2024's Story Reportedly Covers The Iraq War
>Call of Duty 2024's setting may have leaked online thanks to a prominent Call of Duty insider. The Call of Duty series has covered a lot of the most prevalent wars in recent history.
>The franchise started in World War II before eventually making the jump to the modern day and then jumped back a bit to Vietnam and the Cold War.
>Once people started to demand a bigger change from the series, Call of Duty went to the future and even space, resulting a rather controversial era for the series.
>The 2022 entry will take players back to a familiar setting with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, a game that will deal with things like drug cartels and terrorism.
>However, some fans are already trying to figure out what will come next. According to Call of Duty leaker TheGhostofHope, Call of Duty 2024 will be set in the early to late 2000s as it will cover Operation Enduring Freedom and the Iraq War.
>These two operations imply the game will directly pull from history and possibly address things like 9/11, the desire to find and destroy Iraq's WMDs, and much more.
>It's also worth nothing that this is expected to be Treyarch's game, the team behind the Black Ops series which has always been set in the past or the distant future.
>It would also be the first time a game outside of the Modern Warfare franchise would take place in a relatively modern time period.
>Of course, these are some of the most politically charged wars and operations out there, so it really remains to be seen how Treyarch could handle it.
>As of right now, it's heavily rumored there will be no mainline Call of Duty game in 2023. Of course, this could change at any given moment, but the rumor comes from reputable sources.
>If it does happen, it's likely Treyarch would release its game in 2023 instead of 2024, but it seems unlikely at the moment.
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What kind of historical revisionism we will see in an Iraq war setting? Will call of duty go full-on woke parody like in call of duty vanguard?