Microsoft to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation even after Activision acquisition
bgr.inMicrosoft recently announced its plans to acquire Activision Blizzard and all of its subsidiaries. The company expects to complete the deal by the end of the 2023 fiscal year. However, since the announcement, the PlayStation community has gone into a frenzy, worrying that if their favourite games like the Call of Duty franchise would no more be available on the platform. To help calm the community, Xbox boss Phil Spencer took to Twitter to ensure the masses that the company intends to keep the Call of Duty franchise on Sony’s PlayStation platform. Also Read — Next 3 Call of Duty games likely to launch on PS, irrespective of Microsoft's Activision acquisition
<p dir=«ltr» lang=«en» xml:lang=«en»>Had good calls this week with leaders at Sony. I confirmed our intent to honor all existing agreements upon acquisition of Activision Blizzard and our desire to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation. Sony is an important part of our industry, and we value our relationship. Also Read — Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Google's Sundar Pichai to be honoured with Padma Bhushan on India's 73rd Republic Day— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) January 20, 2022 Also Read — Blizzard head reveals how he plans to win back players trust
While the statement does lead us to believe that the Call of Duty franchise has a future on the PlayStation, there is still some wiggle room in it. This statement could simply be perceived that Microsoft will honour all previous commitments and not remove any Call of Duty games from the platform. Going forward it could simply make any future Call of Duty games as exclusives. Also, Spencer has also not mentioned what will happen with all of the other game franchises owned by Activision Blizzrd.
To recall, back in 2019 when Microsoft
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