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Summary: Buyers Keepers⦠Iâm not really a Call Of Duty player. And itâs hard for me right now to find something to equate this whole thing with, but I think Sonyâs displeasure (weâll call it that) with Microsoft over Call Of Duty isâ¦a little weird. I donât know if Sony were ever in the running to buy Activision, but Microsoft threw down almost 70 BILLION for it. And hell, I think maybe nearly 99 percent of that money was for Call Of Duty. And I think if youâre throwing that kind of cash around, youâll do with the property as you please and if it means keeping it on your platform to increase system sales or subscription sales with Gamepass, youâd be a fool not to, honestly. I mean, I can see Sonyâs frustration with the whole thing but they canât be surprised by this or cry foul for it. I mean, Microsoft owns the franchise now. Itâs theirs. Theyâll do whatever they want with the property. Iâll remind you again, I donât play that franchise of games so itâs probably very easy for me to say all these things or speculate anyway. However, Microsoft usually holds the position of being more available to players. Itâs an argument theyâve used a few times when dealing with cross play titles and not imposing restrictions like Sony does. And keeping your newly bought franchise that has been multiplatform to your own ecosystem kind of goes against that philosophy. They havenât done it yet, and I canât say they will, but it wouldnât surprise me at all if they do. I guess weâll see what happens with Bethesdaâs games to get an idea of how this might play out. But then again, this is Call Of Duty, and I think that player base will go where those games are. Even if it means buying a new system or subscription service. Even more interesting will be to see how Sony deals with that in the future. Meanwhile…we had a whole Ubisoft presentation the other day talking about their upcoming library of games. Not one mention, tease or anything for Splinter Cell. And so the clock continuesâ¦it has been 3,301 days since the last Splinter Cell game (non-animated series or guest spot in another game franchise, remake, or VR exclusive).