We've been through this 100 times now. His comment isn't what your title infers.
It means existing Call of Duty games won't be taken off PlayStation. We already figured that.
He said existing agreements lol
"existing"
Which means in 2024 if you want to play the new COD, it won't be on a PlayStation.
Existing...as in no more new Call of Duty games. Same thing as what happened with Bethesda.
He says to have the desire to maintain COD on PlayStation. But of course he won't. And more importantly: even in the best case I expect a rush port with notable lower resolution. It won't end well from every perspective for Sony fans.
" I confirmed our intent to honor all existing agreements upon acquisition of Activision Blizzard
AND our desire to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation".
Notice the 'and' in the sentence, he's comitting to two separate things:
-'To honor all existing agreements upon acquisition of Activision Blizzard' (which may or may not be CoD related, notice he mentions AB instead of CoD here)
-'Our desire to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation' (their intention, which nothing say it's linked or limited to the agreements)
So:
-He keeps CoD on PS because he wants to do so
-He honors previous AB agreements (related to CoD or not, who knows) because he wants to do so
-Matches their previous quotes of that they plan to keep supporting the AB communities outside MS platforms and that the deal wasn't about removing games from other platforms
He said the same shit with Bethesda then Bam once deal closes Starfield Exclusive Elder Scrolls 6 Exclusive Phil is ruthless.
As they said, they kept supporting the Bethesda communities on the other platforms. For the IPs that were in PS before the acquisition they kept adding the updates and dlcs there, plus released Quake Remastered. Same happened with Minecraft and Minecraft Dungeons.
For the IPs that were available on PS before the MS acquisition, everything released or announced has been multiplatform. Starfield is a new IP. The Elder Scrolls 6 being exclusive wasn't a clear statement, could have been an assumption of the GC interviewer.