• Games Microsoft insists: Call of Duty can be played on PlayStation as long as the platform exists

Microsoft

, Sony's main rival in the video game area, knows when the next generation of

PlayStation

will hit the market , despite the fact that it has only been two years since the PS5 began to be sold worldwide.

PlayStation 5 hit the market at the end of 2020, first only through 'online' stores due to the context in which it launched, with the physical distance restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, which also had an impact on the availability of said game console.

Sony, like other video game hardware companies like Microsoft and

Nintendo

, plan for the life cycle of the current console, and the possible arrival of the next generation.

In the case of PlayStion 6, its launch would be considered around 2027.

This year it has not been shared by Sony but by Microsoft, in its response to the

Competition Markets Authority

of the United Kingdom, which is investigating the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and which has been shared by industry analyst Piers Harding-Rolls on his Twitter account.

Specifically, this document states that "Microsoft has offered to maintain the availability of Activision games on PlayStation only until 2027. [...] A period until 2027- or another time (possibly shorter) that Microsoft unilaterally determines that ' makes sense' to Microsoft, it's highly inappropriate. By the time SIE releases the next generation of its PlayStation console (which is likely to happen around []), it would have lost access to

Call of Duty and other

Activision

titles

, which makes it extremely vulnerable to consumer change and the consequent degradation of their competitiveness".

Following the life cycle of the previous Sony consoles, of about six years, the replacement for the current PS5 should arrive in 2026 or 2027, in line with Microsoft's offer to keep Activision games on this console, especially Call of Duty.

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