When information happened that Xbox was buying Activision Blizzard, there was loads of buzz going round on-line on what this might imply to Blizzard video games on different consoles.
Speaking to The Instances (by way of VGC), Xbox head Phil Spencer talks concerning the acquisition, and the way it’s at the moment being investigated as as to if it might be good for competitors for Xbox to amass the huge sport studio. Spencer explains, “This is a vital acquisition for us. It’s not some linchpin to the long run — Xbox will exist if this deal doesn’t undergo.”
One massive concern with the acquisition is the Name of Responsibility franchise which is claimed to take up an enormous bulk of PlayStation’s enterprise. If something, Microsoft has stated that they’ve supplied a contract with Sony to launch each new COD sport on PlayStation the identical day that it releases for Xbox.
Admittedly, loads of followers have been contemplating the console conflict to be anti-consumer, with consoles touting exclusives, forcing gamers to spend extra on particular consoles simply to take a look at sure video games. To that, Spencer says, “To me, having us, Sony, and Nintendo doing properly within the console market — all of us with strengths and uniqueness and content material and capabilities — provides shoppers extra selection… I’d hate to see consoles go to the place telephones are the place there are solely two producers. And, proper now, we have now three good opponents.”
We don’t know if this acquisition goes to push by means of easily, however at the very least we all know that Xbox is assured it could possibly survive with out Blizzard.