Activision Blizzard games will continue to launch on PlayStation and Switch beyond the foreseeable future, Microsoft has today confirmedꦛ. This comes from Microsoft president Brad Smith, who confirmed that the games will continue to 🗹have cross-platform launched "beyond existing agreements".
This follows on from the company already promising to adhere to previous agreements, seeing big titles reach PlayStation players as well as Xbox. This makes the Activision Blizzard acquisition quite different from that of Bethesda's, which saw highly anticipated games such as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Starfield go Xbox aܫnd PC exclusive immedi⛦ately.
It's noteworthy that this new commitment doesn't come with much fanfare from Microsoft's side. It was instead spotted in a concerning the company's adherence to marketplace competition laws. It's possible that Microsoft has run🐓 into some issues wh꧙ile seeking regulatory approval for the Activision Blizzard merger, and has therefore had to issue this statement in order to comp𓆉ly with the rules.
"As a company, we continue to be more focused on adapting to regulat🐭ion than fighting against it", writes Smith in the blog post. "Microsoft will continue to make Call of Duty and other popular Activision Blizzard titles available on PlayStation through the term of any existing agreement with Activision. And we have committed to Sony that we will also make them available on PlayStation beyond the existing agreement."
"We are also interested in taking similar steps to support Nintendo’s successful platform. We believe this is the right thing for the industry, for🐼 gamers ꦦand for our business."
This makes the deal somewhat similar to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sony's acquisition of Bungie. As soon as it was announced, Bungie confirmed that its games would remai🎃n cross-platform, as it retains independent publishing rights. The deal also won't affect Destiny 2's ongoing development until 2024, so w✱ith any luck, we won't see an (even more) overly monopolized gaming industry anytime soon. Microsoft, however, will retain the rights to make Activision Blizzard titles exclusive if it so wishes, it just seems that this won't be the case with its larger releases, such as Call of Duty.
