It will be on more platforms and be part of game pass after acquisition. Nothing will change for Playstation. This deal will go thru their is zero reason for it not.
This was never the case. The executives want a huge payout. That's all. Everything else is just selling big money into the pockets of people who already make the most money at the company.
COD continues to be a beast, also not surprised it did that well, the MW series is always an 'on year' for COD and people were hungry after the 'off year' that was Vanguard. This is exactly why MS are dropping 70bn on them.
Interesting to know. I wonder where the sales breakdown is? Had to have helped Sony break records during the holiday season when they had more consoles to sell on the market.
One of the reasons that Sony wants continued sales and support from this franchise. Helps fund new IPs and sequels of their blockbuster games.
And it’s not fair that two other studios will experience a boost in sales compared to their previous titles, all because they share the CoD brand name with Infinity Ward…
….but that’s how brand names work. It takes a couple of consistent bad experiences for enough people to turn away and finally kill the franchise.
And IW just manages to lure back enough OG CoD vet devs just often enough to push their games from “good” to “great” like twice a decade; and effectively rejuvenate their overall CoD brand value, just enough.
MW and MW2 were great, but they still haven’t topped CoD4’s campaign, IMO.
But, I guess they still have to release the second half of MW2’s campaign.
Of course it is. Many more platform... There are so many more... Hell, they will even give Cod for free. Microsoft is just thinking in all gamers. Because right now they can't play the game. Wait right now anybody can play Cod on console or pc...
I think this report is totally wrong! MS said the reason for them to buy AB is Candy Crush. So, Candy Crush must have been making so much money that they cannot be tracked anymore unlike CoD!
that's the King effect. Like you said, WoW, Diablo, Overwatch player bases have declined in recent years. CoD is a short term goal. Acquiring the biggest mobile publisher in NA is the long term goal. Remember what MS desires is to get all platforms under their control. They can't do that with phones with Google and Apple entrenched in the market and their own products flops. So they went after the largest content creator to achieve that end
Tch... They can't say these things, what if Sony ears about this, ms won't be able to say that call of duty is not so great anymore... C'mon Activision...
"Following its October launch, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II delivered the highest opening-quarter sell-through in franchise history."
Seriously, it's an unstoppable juggernaut.
COD continues to be a beast, also not surprised it did that well, the MW series is always an 'on year' for COD and people were hungry after the 'off year' that was Vanguard. This is exactly why MS are dropping 70bn on them.
Interesting to know. I wonder where the sales breakdown is? Had to have helped Sony break records during the holiday season when they had more consoles to sell on the market.
One of the reasons that Sony wants continued sales and support from this franchise. Helps fund new IPs and sequels of their blockbuster games.
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And it’s not fair that two other studios will experience a boost in sales compared to their previous titles, all because they share the CoD brand name with Infinity Ward…
….but that’s how brand names work. It takes a couple of consistent bad experiences for enough people to turn away and finally kill the franchise.
And IW just manages to lure back enough OG CoD vet devs just often enough to push their games from “good” to “great” like twice a decade; and effectively rejuvenate their overall CoD brand value, just enough.
MW and MW2 were great, but they still haven’t topped CoD4’s campaign, IMO.
But, I guess they still have to release the second half of MW2’s campaign.