Next three 'Call of Duty' games to appear on Sony's PlayStation - Bloomberg
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Sony's (NYSE:SONY) PlayStation will get the next few releases in Activision Blizzard's (NASDAQ:ATVI) annual best-selling Call of Duty series, Bloomberg reports.
That's become an open question and a stock overhang with Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) near-$69 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard; Microsoft of course makes the rival Xbox, and it's widely expected to make more Xbox exclusives after it closes the deal.

And Call of Duty is no small blockbuster game: Its annual holiday-season release take a spot atop the videogame sales charts each year (and has been the No. 1 seller for three straight years in the U.S.). The books on 2021 just closed, and November release Call of Duty: Vanguard was the year's best-seller, followed by 2020's Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.

Microsoft's Phil Spencer had said that the company intended to honor existing agreements on acquiring Activision Blizzard, but it was unclear specifically what those agreements meant and for how many years.
Microsoft stock is off 5.2% postmarket despite beating earnings estimates thanks in large part to cloud computing revenues.
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