While Microsoft awaits approval for its acquisition of Activision Blizzard Phil Spencer, speaking on The Verge’s Decoder podcast, said that Microsoft was open to committing that the Call of Duty series would remain on PlayStation for a longer period than currently agreed upon.

Spencer noted in the interview that “This idea that we would write a contract that says the word ‘forever’ in it, I think, is a little bit silly.” Continuing he said, “but to make a longer-term commitment that Sony would be comfortable with, [that] regulators would be comfortable with, I have no issue with that at all.”

With UK and EU regulators expanding their investigation into the acquisition deal Spencer clarified his statement saying “We think Call of Duty will be on PlayStation as long as players want to play Call of Duty on PlayStation. And that’s not a competitive threat against PlayStation, that’s just a pragmatic way of looking at it.”

Speaking on the possibility of a streaming-only version of Call of Duty on PlayStation, Spencer said that if this was the case it would be “native Call of Duty on PlayStation, not linked to them having to carry Game Pass.” Following on from this Spencer added, “If they want a streaming version of Call of Duty we could do that as well, just like we do on our own consoles.”