The year 2022 will be remembered as one of the most eventful years around some of the best-known franchises, due to Microsoft’s takeover of Activision Blizzard. As expected, fans of Call of Duty they raised their hands to their heads on the mere suspicion that one of the most successful IPs in history was going to remain caged within the four walls of the Xbox ecosystem.
The game of cat and mouse
But of course the first to play the deception card were the animators of Phil Spencer, who from the start they didn’t go to the media to say exactly what they were planning to do
But in recent weeks, a significant change has been seen, as Phil Spencer has gone from being very careful and not letting go, to say you would like to see a Call of Duty on Nintendo Switch. Thus was sung: “we will not suppress Call of Duty at PlayStation. This is not our intention. Our intention is not to do that and as long as there is a PlayStation to release a game on, our intention is to continue bringing Call of Duty to PlayStation. Something similar to what we did with Minecraft
Indeed, Phil pronounced the keyword: Minecraft, who’s the one who can back up with facts a suspicion many of us who’ve seen a few of these player battles had.
Microsoft doesn’t like exclusivity
Microsoft has already shown on several occasions that the letter of exclusivity in video games is not a priority. The proof is the disaster title only for xbox who have reached their new consoles, which is not bad but is insignificant compared to the quality of what the third. Those in Redmond want to make money above all else, have increasingly universal franchises and collect as much as possible wherever they are. Everywhere if possible.
Minecraft This is the demonstration of this policy. There were also discussions at the time about whether it would stop appearing on PS3, PS Vita, etc., and in the end remained where it was and over time became entrenched in the ecosystems of Japan. Call of Duty It is obvious that it will continue to affect all PlayStations on the market, present and future, even if it is precisely here that Phil Spencer sends a subtle message to the Japanese, saying that Microsoft and Activision will continue to release new episodes “as long as there is a PlayStation.” Do you think a scenario could occur in which there would be no new Sony console on the market?
“Higher towers have fallen” goes the saying although at the moment it doesn’t look like PlayStation will be one of them, do you think?
