Pending the decision of various regulators on the European market, Microsoft goes out of its way to convince the whole world that call of duty will not become an exclusive. Phil Spencer despite repeating that it would not be profitable, the various organizations are studying the issue closely, driven by a sony who wants to ensure that this deal between Microsoft and Activision-Blizzard does not go as simply as hoped for the two entities. The CEO of Xbox once again spoke about it during an interview on the Same Brain channel.
A reassuring statement, or a warning?
Asked about the matter, Spencer again said he wanted to deal with the license call of duty as Minecraftwhich continues to be released on all platforms:
” We’re not removing Call of Duty from PlayStation… That’s not our intention. We have no intention of doing this and as long as there are PlayStation consoles we will continue to make Call of Duty available on PlayStation – similar to what we have done with Minecraft since we owned it. We expanded the places people can play Minecraft, we didn’t shrink the places. And that’s been a good thing, it’s been good for the Minecraft community – in my opinion – and we want to do the same when we think about where Call of Duty can go through the years. »
With this formulation, we understand that the console market is not where Spencer wants to wage a battle, since he thinks above all of the Xbox Game Pass and the service war. In other words, if Sony wants to continue seeing episodes of call of duty on consoles, it has every interest in continuing to release machines.