Phil Spencer has reiterated Xbox’s pledge to keep up “100% parity” for Call of Duty throughout all platforms, now that Microsoft has acquired creator Activision.
Speaking on the official Xbox podcast, Microsoft’s head of gaming urged that the type of unique skins and timed exclusivity on content material drops reminiscent of betas seen on PlayStation would now not occur now that Xbox is in cost.
“For Call of Duty gamers on PlayStation, and sooner or later Nintendo, I need you to really feel 100% part of the neighborhood,” he mentioned. “I don’t need you to really feel like there’s content material you’re lacking out, skins you’re lacking out, there’s timing that you simply’re lacking out on… that’s not the objective.
“The objective is 100% parity throughout all platforms as a lot as we are able to for launch and content material. I say ‘as a lot as we are able to’ on parity as a result of clearly some platforms have decision and framerate variations, simply based mostly on efficiency, however there’s nothing else.”
He continued: “We haven’t any objective of by some means making an attempt to make use of Call of Duty to get you to purchase an Xbox console. I need the Call of Duty nation to really feel supported throughout all platforms.
“We’ve been on the opposite aspect of a few of these pores and skin [deals] and even this [Modern Warfare 3] beta wasn’t on Xbox the primary week… I don’t suppose that helps the neighborhood, I don’t suppose that helps the sport.
“So it’s the main target should you’re a PlayStation participant, a Nintendo participant, a PC participant, or an Xbox console participant, I need you to really feel 100% a part of the Call of Duty nation.”
Microsoft and PlayStation signed a binding settlement this yr to maintain Call of Duty on PlayStation following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Although a number of Microsoft figures testified in court docket that the concept of constructing Call of Duty unique was by no means on the desk, it remained a sticking level for the PlayStation maker.
Call of Duty is commonly the best-selling recreation of the yr, and even when full exclusivity was off the desk, the prospect of the sport coming into Xbox Game Pass at launch for a comparably tiny price was certainly one of PlayStation’s largest points with the deal.
