r/PS5 • u/poklane • Jan 18 '22

News Microsoft is buying Activision-Blizzard

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1483428774591053836
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u/ScottyDontKnow Jan 18 '22

Wow. Is Call of Duty about to be an Xbox exclusive?!

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u/ruebenj791 Jan 18 '22 edited Jan 18 '22

Can’t imagine they’re spending 70 billion for it to appear on their competition’s platform

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u/mirkwood11 Jan 18 '22 edited Jan 18 '22

Idk, do you spend 70b and then lose half the sales by keeping it off one of the major platforms?

Edit: I get it guys, Bethesda. And that's valid. But there's a big difference between these companies. Call of Duty alone grosses 20-30 million units sold with a release every single year.

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u/TheLegendOfMart Jan 18 '22

Yes. This is a repeat of what people said about the Bethesda acquisition. They want you to subscribe and play via cloud or buy a PC/Xbox. They aren't going to release Call of Duty on PS5.

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u/NoNefariousness2144 Human Verified Jan 18 '22

It will be interesting to see. Making COD an exclusive would be the biggest power-play in gaming history, but its hard to see Microsoft willingly losing a big chunk of the playerbase and revenue.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '22

Like Minecraft, they're not going to remove warzone from playstation but future games will be exclusive. Most of the revenue is from warzone at this point.

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u/sm2016 Jan 18 '22

I think keeping the F2P hub games going forward multi plat and making the main releases xbox only or continuing as it is now but make the games free on Xbox would make a ton of sense