Although video game fans, and xboxers In particular, believe that in Microsoft no one is behind the wheel and there is no planned plan for the area of Xboxthe same as the players are not aware and Phil Spencer’s players do have some road map that tries to lead them to a goal. And if not, as proof we leave you what happened with the last one Call of Duty Black Ops 6 which, as you surely remember, arrived a few weeks ago Xbox Game Pass.
Call of Duty has always been one of the target franchises of hardware manufacturers such as Sony and Microsoft. For years, Activision took Xbox as their reference platform, where its expansions and DLC arrived first, until Sony got fed up and took it almost permanently in recent years. Well, after passing the company into the hands of Phil Spencer, it seems that the tables have turned for the first time in a decade.
Xbox, the home of Call of Duty thanks to Microsoft’s money?
Well, if you want us to answer the question, we will: yes, the Americans have turned the tables by getting Xbox has once again become the place where Call of Duty It is more popular and more played. And it is obvious that to achieve these results it has been necessary that, from Microsoft put this one Black Ops 6 within Xbox Game Pass. So, first of all, Phil Spencer’s team can say “objective achieved.”
What’s more, in a recent interview, Spencer himself came to justify these very controversial decisions that they have been making lately and that seek to be more transversal, not to close and make the places and spaces of a machine watertight, as he does try. sony based on exclusives. For the North American manager, he thinks his strategy is correct for the current industry in which we find ourselves.
“It’s about being accessible in more places, and there’s no real platform right now other than what we’re doing with Xbox [Game Pass]not really per device […] Most gaming platforms are, ‘This device runs this [juego]’, and trying to think of a platform that looks more horizontal and connects creators and players in that way, that’s what we’re trying to do, and that’s the response we’re getting.
Towards an Xbox market without exclusives?
It is obvious that what Phil Spencer says is not going to please the xboxers who want to have their good share of exclusive games every year, but surely as a company it is the smartest thing they can do Microsoft At the moment, where the console fleet is practically half that of Sony with its PS5. So instead of having pure and simple consoles (Series They are a way of carrying a Xbox always in your pocket or on the TV.
