Xbox boss wants to bring back Hexen and King’s Quest – as COD stays multiformat

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Xbox boss Phil Spencer assures that Call Of Duty won’t leave PlayStation and that it won’t be the only franchise Activision will work on.

A lot of people naturally assumed that Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision would mean Call Of Duty would permanently jump the PlayStation ship and become an Xbox exclusive franchise.

Microsoft has never actually said that though and now Xbox boss Phil Spencer has stated that this won’t be the case. In a Twitter statement, he unambiguously says: ‘I confirmed our intent to honour all existing agreements upon acquisition of Activision Blizzard and our desire to keep Call Of Duty on PlayStation.’

Sony itself said that it expects Microsoft to abide by the contractual agreements already in place, although how long Sony’s current marketing deal with Activision lasts, and what happens when it’s over, is still unclear.

After it acquired Bethesda, Microsoft made it very clear that the deal was to get new exclusives for Xbox and the Game Pass service, and so far all new Bethesda games are Xbox console exclusives.

The only exception is Ghostwire: Tokyo but that’s because Sony already paid for timed exclusivity before the acquisition took place. It’s the same reason why Deathloop is out on PlayStation 5 and won’t be on Xbox till next year.

How much Spencer is bending the truth when he talks about Call Of Duty remains to be seen but on a more positive note he has said that he intends to give Activision a lot more freedom when it comes to what franchises it can work on.

In recent years the company has increasingly become focused solely on Call Of Duty, with practically all of its subsidiaries working on it in some form or another.

Speaking with The Washington Post, Spencer said, ‘We’re hoping that we’ll be