Microsoft Has Given ‘Repeated Assurances’ That Activision’s Content Will Be On as ‘Many Devices as Possible’
Microsoft announcing that it was planning to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion was quite unexpected and the deal has raised questions on whether or not Activision’s games would be ripped from PlayStation or Nintendo platforms in the future. Those details have yet to be completely confirmed, but Activision CEO Bobby Kotick recently stated that Microsoft gave him “repeated assurances” that Activision would see its content on various platforms.
Kotick recently did an interview with Games Beat where he broke down some of the details of the deal. When asked about antitrust laws, Kotick spoke about the ubiquity of Microsoft’s products as well as King, the developer and publisher of, and its place in the mobile market. After talking about these disparate areas within the company, he then transitioned back to gaming.
“But we all realize that gaming over the next five years is going to be more on phones than on any other devices,” said Kotick. “And I think that they they have given us repeated assurances that our content will be available on as many devices as possible.”
This comes alongside other quotes that speak to a similar sentiment of Microsoft releasing Activision games on other hardware. According to one of Bloomberg‘s sources, Microsoft “plans to keep making some of Activision’s games for PlayStation consoles but will also keep some content exclusive to Xbox.” Head of Xbox Phil Spencer also gave a similar sentiment in that same report.
“I’ll just say to players out there who are playing Activision Blizzard games on Sony’s platform: It’s not our intent to pull communities away from that platform and we remained committed to that,” he said.
It’s unclear how many Activision games will land on other platforms in
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