PlayStation Believes Activision Games Won't Be Xbox Exclusive
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A new statement from PlayStation has revealed that the company believes not all Activision games will be Xbox exclusives in the future. The comments from Sony come just days after Microsoft purchased Activision Blizzard for $68 billion USD, resulting in the biggest deal in video game history. Prior to this announcement, the biggest video game acquisition was Take-Two's recent purchase of Zynga for $12.7 billion USD.
The news that Microsoft is purchasing Activation Blizzard took the gaming world by surprise earlier this week. On the deal’s completion, which is expected to be finalized in 2023, Microsoft will have ownership of several huge gaming franchises including Call of Duty, Overwatch, and Diablo. Along with these big names, Microsoft will also own King, a video game publisher most famous for the free-to-play mobile games of Candy Crush Saga. This new acquisition in itself would allow for Microsoft to push successful Activision games, such as World of Warcraft, onto a mobile format, should the company decide to develop upon this area within the gaming industry once the deal is complete.
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While the industry and game fans as a whole are now curious to see what plans Microsoft has in store for the future,
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