Call Of Duty could stay on PlayStation even after Xbox buys Activision
Insider sources claim that Microsoft will not be making all of Activision Blizzard’s games exclusive to Xbox, and that could include Call Of Duty.
When Microsoft bought Bethesda in 2020 they started off by implying that most of the publisher’s existing franchises would remain multiformat. As the months went by though, they slowly changed their rhetoric until they admitted that the whole reason they’d bought the company was to ensure more exclusives for Xbox and Game Pass.
It wouldn’t be surprising if something similar happened with the shock acquisition of Activision Blizzard, but at the moment Bloomberg sources claim that Microsoft ‘plans to keep making some of Activision’s games for PlayStation consoles but will also keep some content exclusive to Xbox’.
No specific titles were mentioned but Call Of Duty is thought to be one of the most likely to remain multiformat, because, like Minecraft, it simply makes too much money that way.
Microsoft may choose to make the paid-for games exclusives, and just keep Warzone as multiformat, but even if the PlayStation did get the retail games the Xbox would naturally have priority in terms of DLC and promotions.
At the moment Sony pays for everything extra to be released first on PlayStation but as soon as the time runs out on that deal, they’ll never be able to do that again – since Activision Blizzard is only set to remain an independent company for a year or two at most.
What other games will remain multiformat is hard to say, but Overwatch seems a possible candidate, while Crash Bandicoot and Spyro The Dragon are the opposite and likely to become de facto Xbox mascots.
It’s less easy to guess what will happen with Blizzard properties other than Overwatch though, which have
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