Call of Duty for PlayStation isn’t going anywhere, Phil Spencer claims

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In January 2022, Xbox’s moms and dad firm, Microsoft, announced plans to purchase Activision Blizzard. While the news left some questioning what the offer suggested for the future of their favorite franchises, we currently recognize for certain that Call of Duty won’t be leaving PlayStation gaming consoles anytime quickly. On Sunday, Phil Spencer verified that the firm has no strategies to take the franchise business off of the PlayStation gaming consoles.

Microsoft introduced strategies to buy Activision Blizzard for about $68.7 billion last wintertime. At time of magazine, the offer is still pending and in review with anti-trust regulatory authorities in the United States and also abroad, nonetheless Spencer has actually currently begun speaking about Microsoft’s prepare for a lot of the firm’s games. In an interview with the Same Brain podcast, Spencer stated that there is no strategy to take the Call of Duty franchise business off of PlayStation.

“As long as there’s a PlayStation out there to ship to, our intent is that we continue to ship Call of Duty on PlayStation, similar to what we’ve done with Minecraft. Since we’ve owned that, we’ve expanded the places people can play Minecraft.” He stated in the video clip, “We haven’t reduced the places, and it’s been good for the Minecraft community, in my opinion, and I want to do the same as we think about where Call of Duty can go over the years.”

Since the initial game was launched in 2003, Call of Duty has actually taken place to turn into one of the world’s biggest video game franchises. Year after year, Call of Duty games routinely rest at the tops of sales charts. When Activision launched Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, that included its take on a fight royale style, it asserts its sales went beyond $600 million within the initial 3 days of its launch. Although it shows up the trends of passion have actually transformed rather — the current Call of Duty: Vanguard didn’t market in addition to previous titles and also the variety of gamers dipped over the summer — it remains to be a normal component on the yearly launch schedule.

Activision launched its most recent installation of the franchise business, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, on Oct. 27.

 

Source: Polygon