Activision Blizzard Microsoft Call of Responsibility not decisive for choosing a platform

Recently, Sony as soon as again spoke out in a statement compared to the British competitive and market supervisory authority against a takeover of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft. Main argument: a possible Xbox exclusivity of the Call of Responsibility series.

Microsoft has actually now also published a statement to revoke the arguments of the Japanese competitor. In this it is stated that the Call of Duty brand name has no unique functions in the locations of buying practices or commitment of the gamers and is not decisive for the choice of a platform:

Call of Task gamers are neither ', particularly nor' distinct in terms of their editions or their commitment compared to players who choose other popular brand names.

Call of Task does not drive the platform approval. Xbox's data reveal that between 2016 and 2022 [censored] % of the brand-new Xbox players never played or bought Call of Task content and just [censored] % of the gamers Call of Task as their first game on their new Xbox console have actually played. These figures oppose the presumption that Call of Task influences the choice of the platform.

Figure 12 programs that [censored] is the game that the majority of players are the very first to play after purchasing an Xbox console in the period 2016-2022, and numerous other games are played likewise initially.