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How long do you think Microsoft Activision would keep Call of Duty and Overwatch alive on other platforms? Or perhaps use discontinuing it as a threat to wrangl
by chx 4y ago
How long do you think Microsoft Activision would keep Call of Duty and Overwatch alive on other platforms? Or perhaps use discontinuing it as a threat to wrangle some concession out of Sony when it needs it.
Let's say the Windows or Internet Explorer days are far behind Microsoft and not relevant to games anyways. Well, remember their lock down attempt on the Xbox One ten years ago? https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2013/06/06/connected/ https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2013/06/06/connected/ which was so bad they needed to back down in just two weeks.
Overall, the centralization of the gaming industry is worrisome. Sony in 2021 alone bought six studios including Valkyrie which also should've been blocked. Microsoft bought Zenimax, Nintendo bought Next Level but even Take Two bought up Zynga.
Also, this is a lot of money, even for Microsoft and if times get tough, they will squeeze Activision to get some of that back and creativity will go down.
- philistine 4y agoWhy do everybody treat Call of Duty like some sort of universal constant, even Microsoft, Sony and Activision? Does no one realize this is an artistic franchise that could be in a very different place in ten years? It's as if someone was saying they were unfair because Disney refuses to release Star Wars to movie theaters. It changed into a bunch of TV shows, it went in a different direction!