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I don't see them pulling CoD from PlayStation, it makes too much money.Alan wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 2:02 pm"Exclusives Are ‘Completely Counter To What Gaming Is About,’ Xbox’s Phil Spencer Says" July 2020
This seems like a crap use of money with how limited portfolio they have though I'm not sure what comes on the publishing front. WoW is weaning, Overwatch seems to have lost its popularity so its CoD, Diablo and Candycrush? For 70billion?! The worst part is little piggy boy Bobby is going to make out big time here.
Whenever Blizzard manage to get something out people rush to buy it and there are IPs at both companies that are not being leveraged right now because Activision are focused on specific IPs and don't have many studios. Microsoft have the studio capacity to take advantage of some of those IPs and then alongside that you have all the service games that rake in a lot of money each year.The biggest gains were reported by the King division, which saw its flagship app Candy Crush grow 20% year-over-year while its segment net revenues rose 22% to a new quarterly record of $652 million.
Blizzard segment net revenues were also up 22% to $478 million, driven in large part by the launch of Diablo 2: Resurrected.
However, the Activision segment dominated by Call of Duty posted net revenues down 17% year-over-year to $641 million
Kotick is out once Microsoft acquisition closes, reports say. Unsure on the exclusivity, Call of Duty does massive numbers on the Playstation platform and much of the newer content has always been released there first and foremost.OK. Fine. I'll do the damn discourse. Warzone will remain multiplatform, but I think main Call of Duty games go exclusive. Microsoft already ran the numbers on every scenario with Bethesda and it determined exclusivity to Game Pass is the best way to drive its goals.