Microsoft's boss has revealed some details about the offer made to Sony to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for at least 10 years.

It is worth noting that keeping the aforementioned game available on all platforms is the focus of all international parties currently studying the acquisition agreement, which has a value of over US$1.4 billion.

Last month, Microsoft, in an official statement to the New York Times, made a ten-year offer for Call of Duty on PlayStation. While the company's boss returned Brad Smith on Monday to confirm the offer with its own statement to the Wall Street Journal.

Smith said Sony has been the most prominent objector to the deal since it was announced, while Microsoft has been very enthusiastic about it. He added that the main potential anticompetitive risk Sony raises is that Microsoft will no longer make Call of Duty available on PlayStation platforms. But that would be economically irrational.

Smith added that the majority of the game's revenue comes from sales on the PlayStation platform. There's also a cross-play feature that allows PlayStation players to play on other platforms, and moving away from the game on Sony's platform would be a catastrophic loss for Xbox.

That's why we've offered Sony a 10-year agreement to make all new versions of Call of Duty available on PlayStation the same day they become available on Xbox. We're open to making the same commitment to other platforms and making it legally enforceable by regulators in the US, UK, and EU.

Meanwhile, the European Commission and the UK Competition and Markets Authority have begun in-depth studies of the deal's implications. The FTC has initiated proceedings to file an antitrust lawsuit to halt the deal, which could lead Microsoft to fight in US courts for the deal's success.

Smith said suing Microsoft to try to stop the acquisition would be a "huge mistake" that would stifle competition and negatively affect consumers and game developers.

Sony has not stopped raising controversy regarding its deal with Microsoft Activision and said that Microsoft's real strategy behind the acquisition of Activision Blizzard is to make PlayStation like Nintendo in terms of not competing in shooter games for more than 18 years.

We should see the end of this business in failure or success by mid-2023 when all approvals from all regulatory bodies are expected to be obtained.