Will Call of Duty become an Xbox exclusive title?

The gaming industry is constantly changing, even if everything seems to be calm. The recent news that Xbox was buying Activision Blizzard has led many players to wonder if Call of Duty will become an Xbox-exclusive title.

That's a great question, as Microsoft's previous acquisition of Bethesda resulted in Bethesda games becoming Xbox-exclusive titles. There are some differences in these purchases, however. The Bethesda purchase is actually quite small compared to the Activision Blizzard purchase, which cost times as much money at a whopping $ 70 billion. This means that Microsoft has to pay back a lot of money and fast for the purchase to make sense.

The indication from the Bethesda purchase is also that Microsoft will keep the live service games as they are, with Fallout 76 and Elder Scrolls Online supported on PlayStation, for example. Call of Duty is a multiplayer game and is perhaps one of the greatest examples of a live service in the world. Each individual installment is no longer self-contained, but is almost like an expansion of their current platform, being bolted to their multiplayer and battle royale infrastructure.

It also seems hard to imagine Microsoft leaving billions of dollars a year on the table from this game alone when you consider how much money it generates on the Sony platform. However, it's impossible to know right now, as Xbox hasn't made any definitive statements in any way. Right now, it honestly wouldn't shock us to see the company going both ways, but we'll have to wait until Xbox is willing to reveal their future plans.