Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has been talking a bit more about Call of Duty plans in today's interview on the Official Xbox Podcast, including what PlayStation players can expect from the franchise in the future.
As he's said before, Spencer reiterated that he wants PlayStation fans to feel part of the Call of Duty community (same with PC and eventually Nintendo!), and the goal is for 100% parity across all platforms when it comes to content:
"For Call of Duty players on Playstation, and in the future on Nintendo, I want you to feel 100% part of the community. I don't want you to feel like there's content you're missing out, there's skins you're missing out, there's timing you're missing out on. That's not the goal."

"I want the Call of Duty nation to feel supported across all platforms."
Spencer also talked a bit more about the PlayStation-exclusive Call of Duty content that we've seen over the past few years, pointing out that even the recent Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 beta was a timed exclusive for PlayStation owners, and ultimately criticising it as not being beneficial for the game itself or the Call of Duty community.
"We've been on the other side of some of those skins and times - even this beta wasn't on Xbox the first week. I just don't think that helps the community, I don't think that helps the game."
So, there you go! No real revelations here, but it's good to know that Call of Duty will be ditching the timed exclusive content in the future, and will remain a key focus for PlayStation and PC along with Nintendo at some point too.
What are your thoughts on Spencer's comments here? Tell us down below.
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They wanna support all platforms so no-one misses out on content, timing and skins.
Warzone on the switch boutta be wild man
Honestly, parity is all we ever wanted.
Always a turn off seeing a multiplat game make you feel like you got it on the wrong platform and punishing you for playing where you want to play.
One of the reasons COD became a "used only" purchase for me.
I don't wanna hear about cod. I wanna know what will they bring that's new. Something that they wouldn't do without the merge. If all I hear is cod, then I'll assume this merger was pointless.
Lip service and nothing else. Said the same thing when zenimax was purchased
@CutchuSlow Lol, why are you even here if this is your take?
@Rmg0731 what part of case by case basis for Zenimax don't you understand?
@CutchuSlow those are called June showcases. You got a long ways to hear about big new titles. We might get some cool news early 2024 about older games hitting GP and that will be a nice lead up to the June show case where the big hitters get reveals but until then teams are hard at work creating, learning the new tools at MS, and getting games fixed to come to GP. For now COD will take a lot of headlines cause getting those on GP will be a nice draw for the service.
@TheRealPaperKut @Rmg0731 probably the word case would be my guess. Lot’s of games were and will be supported on multiple consoles. But some and by some i mean new IP’s and games without a large online community, so single player games will be on Xbox/PC and cloud most likely and that to me seems not only fair but good business sense.
Team xbox is sitting on a gold mine with this one.
Cant wait what they will do with the purchase.
@Rmg0731 The difference is this is the series they were legally bound to make identical cross-platform, with no differences. They promised this, several times, in court.
Most other games? "PlayStation fans can **** OFF!"
- Phil Spencer (Inside)
@CutchuSlow pointless for you personally. Microsoft is probably going to do alright out of it.
Or rather PS cod fans are welcome to spend more money for Xbox. MS will milk the heck out of y'all PS players.
Does this mean rare has been totally abandoned now.
Welll it would be smart to give ps skins having skins with PlayStation characters exclusively and Xbox having like a master chief skin etc I wouldn’t mind that but times exclusives are stupid … only way I think it made sense was for Bethesda games being eventually released on Xbox rather than be exclusive
@Kaloudz To be fair to Phil he has been fairly consistent in saying that he wanted there to be parity for Call of Duty across all platforms right the way through the whole saga so it looks like he is going to honour that. It may even be something that is stated in all those agreements they signed.
@Rmg0731 No, he didn't. He was very careful in how he worded what he said and clearly you misconstrued it.
Of course it splits Fans of an IP, splits that Community between those on one Platform and the Rest of the fanbase who misses out. Splitting that community is not in the best interest of the Gamers or the IP itself.
I know MS were guilty of doing this too when they had CoD during the 360 era, getting DLC map packs a month early - although you also have to remember that Gaming was in a different place back then and MS under different management.
@Kevw2006 I agree - its not something Phil has ONLY come out and said recently and has been very consistent. The deals may have been offered to enforce it 'legally' so Phil couldn't go back on his word at a later date, but it was to offer things they had already intended to offer. Instead of having just verbal 'promises' which aren't necessarily legally binding.
It benefits MS immensely more by making CoD available on more Platforms, growing their CoD community globally on whatever platforms, selling more MTX content etc. Look at Minecraft and how 'big' that is in sales, how big MS's reach is with that IP, how the Minecraft community is supported on whatever Platform they choose to play...
Awww, he wants us to feel supported. Lol.
@Rmg0731 Phil Spencer revealed that Xbox Game Pass is at the heart of this Bethesda deal. “If you’re an Xbox customer, the thing I want you to know is that this is about delivering great exclusive games for you that ship on platforms where Game Pass exists,” said Spencer. “That’s our goal, that’s why we’re doing this, that’s the root of this partnership that we’re building."
This doesn’t mean Bethesda games will suddenly disappear from other platforms. In fact, it’s the opposite. “There’s contractual obligations that we’re going to see through, as we always do in every one of these instances,” says Spencer. “We have games that exist on other platforms, and we’re gonna go support those games on the platforms they’re on. There’s communities of players and we love those communities and we’ll continue to invest in them.”
Contractual Obligations - Deathloop & Ghostwire, Games on Playstation - like Doom Eternal, Fallout 76, ESO etc have continued to be Supported with NEW content for those ACTIVE ONLINE COMMUNITIES of Gamers who want to play together on their 'preferred' platform.
ES6 has NO community, NO contractual Obligation etc and as Phil states it will be assessed on a case by case basis - as was Hifi Rush and of course Starfield - both 'new' IP's with NO community or Contractual Obligation either. ES6 will start with a Character creation - its not a sequel, a continuation of ES5 and its Story, its a whole new stand alone Single Player game that is separate from Morrowind, Oblivion or Skyrim for example.
Sonys COD exclusivity deal comes to an end next year. Interesting times ahead. I doubt we’ll see much of an impact to be honest. I can’t see huge amounts of gamers dropping COD on PlayStation or huge numbers swapping to Xbox if COD gets dropped on Gamepass day one. One things for sure Microsoft are going to be swimming in even more money.
Lip service because he's signed a 10 year contract to get the deal over the line. We all know he'd be saying completely differently if he were not legally obliged.
Seeing as how he has to bring it anyway, why not try and pretend he would always be this magnanimous? It still amazes me that some people think this guy is on the level....
Still now that Bobby Kotick is a Microsoft executive, almost everybody else looks a saint in comparison.
Phil may do CEO stuff (its his job after all), but I bet he has never threatened to have an employee killed....
@Moonglow must have 😆😝
And people on Push Square are still begging for Starfield saying that it isn't fair. 🤣
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