![]() ![]() Perhaps PS5 owners only play the next Call of Duty, by inviting the enemy into the marital bed. However, there could be a kicker in the post. He’s adamant he doesn’t want to “ pull communities away” from their favourite games, just because they’re playing on PlayStation consoles. There’s a certain ‘maybe I’ll throw you a bone, maybe I won’t’ vagueness to his recent comments. ![]() It’ll define the future of console gaming.Īnd right now, it feels like Phil Spencer – the newly minted CEO of Microsoft Gaming – is enjoying his position as gaming’s all-powerful puppet-master. That’s from the last two acquisitions of ZeniMax Media and Activision Blizzard alone. If Microsoft so chooses, it can now command Xbox console exclusivity over franchises like Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot, Diablo, Spyro, Overwatch, Tony Hawk, Warcraft, Doom, Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Wolfenstein, Quake and the forthcoming Starcraft. Microsoft took a beating in the PS4 vs Xbox One battle, and has spent the first year of the rematch attempting to nullify Sony’s deadly weapon – exclusive games.įor Xbox, it’s no longer all about Halo, Gears and Forza. Microsoft’s decision to spend an unfathomable amount of money on Activision Blizzard, makes one thing patently clear: the Xbox maker took its hammering in the last-generation console war really personally. ![]() If Microsoft keeps Call of Duty and others as Xbox and PC-exclusives, Sony would surely have to seriously consider what I believe to be Microsoft’s ultimate endgame here: to bring its Xbox Game Pass service to PS5. However, the fact remains that, CoD is about to become a first-party Microsoft property. That would have been unthinkable to many gamers who managed to snag a new PlayStation over the holidays. After Microsoft’s blockbuster purchase of Activision Blizzard, there’s now serious doubt over whether the next Call of Duty game – to name but one in-limbo franchise – will be available on the PS5. There’s a chance we’re already beyond that tipping point. However, if Microsoft continues to colonise iconic gaming studios, we may finally see gaming’s biggest universes collide in a previously unthinkable way. ![]()
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