Since Microsoft bought Activision-Blizzard for almost 70 billion dollars, many questions have been raised from players, the media, but also from the competition. What about licenses that will fly the Xbox flag by 2023 once the deal is complete? Will Call of Duty become a Microsoft exclusive? According to the words of Phil Spencer a few days ago, players on PlayStation can be reassured, they will be able to take advantage of their annual Kalof, Microsoft continues to honor all the agreements that have been established. For some, these statements remain ambiguous and
on Bloomberg’s side, we tried to read between the lines. Journalist Jason Schreir has also published an article in which he argues that the next three Call of Duty will be released on PlayStation, since agreements were signed between Sony and Activision long before the takeover of Microsoft.
Among the games that are revealed in the paper is this year’s Call of Duty, which is set to be the notorious Modern Warfare 2 whose leaks began to emerge a few months earlier. The 2023 vintage is also mentioned and that of the year 2024 would probably be the successor to Call of Duty Warzone, knowing that it was developed specifically for the next gen’. Agreements that strongly resemble what was done with Bethesda Softworks just before their takeover by the same Microsoft, but it could well be that in the long term, the American giant decides to keep all these beautiful licenses freshly acquired to become real exclusives in the years to come. It would indeed be a shame to spend so much money to let the competition take advantage of it…
