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10 years is also nothing in game development. Games now can take up to 7 years from conception to release, and then there is post release content. Based on the “10 years”, that would mean like what, 1 game out of each series would be cross platform? And for Sony, they would need to start developing a competent competitor to Call of Duty immediately. Or Sony could just buy EA and create a Titanfall 3 since I guess it’s okay for big ass companies to buy one another now.

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There has been a major Call of Duty release 19 of the last 20 years, they only missed 2004 between the original in 2003 and 2 in 2005. 10 year commitment means 10 CoD games for Sony.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty

Let’s hope for Sony, and the sake of growth and creativity that by 2033, we are moving past CoD onto newer, fresher, better games.

I get your point for the industry at large. For example, Skyrim 2011. ES6, 2026? Maybe? But CoD, I swear, you sneeze and there's a new title. CoD: Modern Warfare 2: Black Ops: 2023 reboot. For the record, I'm mostly being tongue in cheek here, but the franchise does seem to release unusually frequently.

> I guess it’s okay for big ass companies to buy one another now.

Unfortunately that’s just the standard. I mean look at AT&T.

And yet ATT ($109B market cap) is in last place, quite a bit behind Tmobile ($168B) and Verizon ($147B).

This is why market capitalisation is not always the best of metrics.

AT&T assets are valued at almost twice of T-Mobile (~$400B vs ~$211B). AT&T is also ahead of Verizon (~$377B) by a nice margin. It’s also right behind Verizon in revenue, and ahead of T-Mobile ($136B for Verizon, $120B for AT&T, and $80B for T-Mobile).

> since I guess it’s okay for big ass companies to buy one another now.

Thats not really the case, no. Sony is the monopoly market leader in the console space right now.

It would be more likely to be illegal for Sony to do this, and it is not illegal for microsoft to do the same, because Microsoft is not the monopoly market leader in the console space.

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