The Call of Duty series could become exclusive to Xbox consoles from now on.
Just a couple of days ago the purchase of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft was announced for a historic sum of 70 billion dollars, an unprecedented movement within the video game industry that could radically change the landscape from now on. Especially in the face of its competition, Sony and its PlayStation. The company has made an official statement after the agreement and hopes Activision-Blizzard games will continue to come to PlayStation consoles.
On the one hand, a Sony spokesman assured The Wall Street Journal (via Resetera) that the company expects “That Microsoft honor contractual agreements and continue to ensure that Activision games are cross-platform.”. That is to say, that the games that are already present on PlayStation or have confirmed their arrival, continue to be available on the platform. This implies, for example, do not remove Call of Duty: Warzone or the arrival of the new 2022 COD if it was already signed with Sony previously.
That the next Activision-Blizzard games also come to PlayStation it is more difficult to insure. “Activision provides some of the most popular games for Sony’s PlayStation game console, including the Call of Duty series. After Microsoft announced its acquisition plan on Tuesday, some analysts raised the possibility of Activision games being available exclusively for Microsoft’s own Xbox console and its subscription video game services in the future,” the article continues.
The truth is that there is no confirmation of what is going to happen in the future beyond the words of Phil Spencer with which he assured “have no intention of removing communities from other platforms and we are committed to that” and the example of Bethesda. With Bethesda, Microsoft did not withdraw any of its games from PlayStation, it even respected Dethloop’s exclusivity on PS5, but Starfield, RedFall and the company’s next games have been announced only for Xbox and PC consoles.
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