Xbox head Phil Spencer has just announced that “Microsoft and PlayStation have signed a binding agreement to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard,” confirming that this was for a period of 10 years. It’s worth noting that this applies solely to new Call of Duty entries going forward, and doesn’t cover previous Call of Duty entries that have already released like, say, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Call of Duty: World at War and the original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare trilogy.įirst EA FC 24 Career Mode features revealed – Player Career and Manager Career Shall not pass The answer to this mystery was actually revealed some months ago, in the same CMA (Competitions and Markets Authority) report where the UK regulator elected to block the Microsoft Activision deal on UK shores.ĭiscussing when the Activision Blizzard benefits on Xbox Game Pass might take effect, the CMA went on record as predicting “CoD arriving on Game Pass in 2025”. Rather expectantly, then, players who own an Xbox Series X |S have been left curious as to when they’ll start reaping the benefits of Call of Duty on Xbox Game Pass. When the deal completes the military FPS franchise will technically become a first-party Xbox game, and the pattern with other such titles so far – like Halo, Gears of War and Forza Mo3torsport, to name a few – has been to launch them directly into Xbox’s premiere game subscription service on day one. Getting Call of Duty on Xbox Game Pass seems like a no-brainer now following the US Federal Court’s decision to deny the FTC’s preliminary injunction against Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition. In the wake of Microsoft being given the go-ahead to purchase Activision Blizzard in the US, players want to know when Call of Duty will come to Xbox Game Pass.
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