Xbox head Phil Spencer has again reiterated that Call of Duty will still be coming to PlayStation consoles following Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Spencer’s comments were made during an interview with Same Brain on YouTube (thanks, Eurogamer), where he said that Microsoft intended to keep releasing Call of Duty on Sony’s consoles “as long as there’s a PlayStation out there to ship to.”
“We’re not taking Call of Duty from PlayStation… That’s not our intent,” said Spencer. “Our intent is not to do that and as long as there’s a PlayStation out there to ship to, our intent is that we’ll continue to ship Call of Duty on PlayStation – similar to what we’ve done with Minecraft since we owned that.
“We’ve expanded the places where people can play Minecraft, we haven’t reduced the places. And it’s been good, it’s been good for the Minecraft community – in my opinion – and we want to do the same when we think where Call of Duty can go over the years.”
Worries about the franchise becoming an Xbox exclusive have been circulating ever since Microsoft first announced its intentions to acquire Activision Blizzard, in a deal that valued the publisher at around £60billion ($68.7billion).
