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  Xbox corporate vice president Sarah Bond has claimed&nbsp;that Activision Blizzard demanded Microsoft provide&nbsp;a larger revenue share to put new Call of Duty games on the platform, according to a new report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/microsoft-xbox-call-of-duty-xbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>IGN<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
This news comes from yesterday\u2019s court trial between Xbox (and Activision Blizzard) and the Federal Trade Commission over Microsoft\u2019s attempted acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Bond claimed in court that, in the leadup to the launch of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X\/S generation of hardware in 2020, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said his company did not intend to put Call of Duty \u2013 presumably new, upcoming ones \u2013\u00a0on the Xbox platform unless Microsoft shared more revenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTime was limited,\u201d Bond said in court, according to\u00a0IGN<\/em>. \u201cWe had players whose expectations we wanted to meet, so we ultimately made a decision that it was the best thing for the business.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere during Bond\u2019s appearance in court, she said an agreement stands today that prevents Call of Duty from appearing on Xbox Game Pass before 2025. She also revealed more about marketing agreements between Xbox and Activision Blizzard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA year ago, we wanted to show that Call of Duty Vanguard was launching on Xbox, we were told we could not say it on YouTube or any other place where customers who were not our own customers could see it, and we had to hold for a period of time,\u201d she said, noting that marketing it on Xbox\u2019s website and social media accounts was acceptable. \u201cBut when we film a showcase, that is people can watch it live on YouTube and other places [\u2026] and at the end, we wanted to put up a slate that said, \u2018Here are all the games coming in the next year.\u2019 We were told we could not say Call of Duty was coming in the next year.\u201d<\/p>\n
IGN\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>report covers a lot more from Bond\u2019s time in court yesterday so head there for even more details.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For more about this court case, read about how we learned yesterday that Bethesda\u2019s Indiana Jones game was originally a multiplatform game but will now release exclusively on Xbox and PC.\u00a0<\/p>\n
[Source: IGN]<\/em><\/p>\n
Source: Game Informer<\/p>\n


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Xbox corporate vice president Sarah Bond has claimed&nbsp;that Activision Blizzard demanded Microsoft provide&nbsp;a larger revenue share to put new Call of Duty games on the platform, according to a new report from <a href=”https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/microsoft-xbox-call-of-duty-xbox” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”><em>IGN<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp; This news comes from yesterday\u2019s court trial between Xbox (and Activision Blizzard) and the Federal Trade Commission over Microsoft\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/thisislevelup.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/call_of_duty.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"yoast_head":"\n