Microsoft buys Activision: Call of Duty, Diablo and Co. Soon XBox-Exclusive? That's what the Xbox says

Microsoft buys Activision and asks the next mega deal. This games trademarks such as Call of Duty, Diablo, World of Warcraft and Diablo receive a new home. In particular, players ask one thing: appear coming Activision games exclusively for Xbox? Call of Duty continues for PlayStation? As Bloomberg.com reports, the Xbox Group is intended to make some of the Activision games available in the future for PlayStation platforms. However, the company resembles to offer some content exclusively in the Xbox ecosystem. Bloomberg refers to the information on a person who should be familiar with the Microsoft plans.

• Call of Duty still appears for PlayStation?
• Activision games in the Xbox Game Pass

Call of Duty still appears for PlayStation?

In an interview with Bloomberg, Xbox boss Phil Spencer comments: I say to players playing Activision Blizzard games on Sony's platform: It is not our intention to pull the communities away from this platform. Already for the announcement of the deal, Microsoft said that the games of Activision Blizzard are played on a variety of platforms, and we plan to support these communities in the future. Exclusive content for PlayStation players, as in the case of Call of Duty, should certainly belong to the past after the acquisition concluded.

The fact that PlayStation players have to adapt to their hardware for their hardware for short or long, explains editor Lukas Schmidt in his column to Microsoft's Activision Takeover. Finally, it's about a lot of money: Microsoft makes the Publisher giant flap of 70 billion US dollars. By comparison: For Publisher Bethesda (Fallout, Star field, The Elder Scrolls, Doom), Microsoft laid $7.5 billion on the table.

Activision games in the Xbox Game Pass

How the future of games of Call of Duty, Overwatch, Diablo and Co. looks concretely remains to be seen. It is clear that Microsoft provides for a large part of the Activision catalog to Hi even's Xbox Game Pass. A very attractive addition to the world now more than 25 million players who have subscribed to the game flat rate.