Xbox is buying Activision Blizzard for £50 billion - Call Of Duty now exclusive?

Microsoft hasn’t made it clear when they first started talking to Activision Blizzard but it was likely some time ago, as deals like this aren’t usually made in a hurry. Although the news is especially surprising considering that Microsoft was threating to ‘break ties’ with Activision Blizzard as recently as last November.

Although Activision Blizzard has always put out curiously few games for such a large publisher this gives Microsoft direct control over franchises including Call Of Duty, Warcraft, Tony Hawk, Diablo, Overwatch, Spyro The Dragon, Hearthstone, Guitar Hero, Crash Bandicoot, StarCraft, and Candy Crush. It also means they now own developers including Blizzard Entertainment, Beenox, Digital Legends, High Moon Studios, Infinity Ward, Radical Entertainment, Raven Software, Sledgehammer Games, Toys for Bob, and Treyarch.

The deal will take some time to close but once it does Microsoft will offer ‘as many Activision Blizzard games as we can’ via Game Pass, including new and old titles. According to Microsoft the number of Game Pass subscribers has now hit 25 million, but previous reports suggested that it was growing at a

So what does everyone think? Should Microsoft make all of Activision's titles Xbox exclusives going forward?

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