Sony will be doing gamers a favour by letting cod go. Same old shit for like over a decade. Remove EA and ubisoft games too. With those games gone there will room for new games and new ip. Not the same shit we've been playing since 2007.
They made some of their best new IP when they were desperate mode in the first few years of the PS3.
You may be onto something here.
COD is so played out at this point, but its been engineered to be an addictive game psychologically. People are crack addicts for it, and its a known good formula for making money from a business perspective. Activision (and Microsoft by proxy if the acquisition goes through) will milk it for everything they can.
Sony is afraid of the acquisition hurting their business, plain and simple. They will try to make their communications regarding this matter appear outwardly that they care about the gamers but that is only a half truth. Really they dont give a fuck about anything besides their bottom line, they're just trying to appeal to reason. In the end, if it does go through it could mean shittier products in general for the consumers due to the ramifications of a direct competitor among the larger controllers in the videogame industry owning a huge piece of the market. It is unhealthy in this way.
It is true that forcing people to adapt breeds creativity though. I agree that if Sony was to lose COD on their platform that it could force more creativity into the industry on the Playstation side (leading to possibly better games), but it's important to acknowledge the flip side of the coin. Things are seldom completely black or white. It's a possibility Sony (or other competitors) could go ULTRA safe with their decision making afterwards and do the opposite of what is desired.
Although, it is difficult to say how Microsoft will act if they do acquire Activision, that depends on what their true goal is. It would be in their best interest financially, atleast in the short term, to keep COD on other platforms than their own. But watch out for the long term, because Microsoft is playing chess for sure.