Några dagar innan Microsoft officiellt köpte Activision Blizzard King, sade sistnämnda att vi inte ska förvänta oss att deras senaste titlar läggs till i Game Pass innan 2024. Nu har Xbox-bossen själv klargjort saker och ting.
Phil Spencer kom nämligen på besök till den omstartade Official Xbox Podcast, och spenderade större delen av veckans avsnitt med att svara på frågor om Activision Blizzard King som nu är en del av Xbox Game Studios. Detta inkluderade frågan om när vi kan förvänta oss att få se Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, Diablo IV, Singularity, Call of Duty-spel och alla andra fina titlar från Activisions bibliotek komma till Game Pass. Han upprepade i princip vad de har sagt tidigare, men förklarade även varför:
"When we finished Bethesda, there was this great moment. We were able to put a bunch of the back catalog games and celebrate their history. The truth of the matter is, with Activision Blizzard King, that the regulatory process took so long - and frankly, there was a lot of uncertainty in that process up until really a week before we closed or the week of when the CMA finally came down to their decision - that we weren't able to get in and work with the, mostly Activision and Blizzard in this case, on that back catalog work.
So now that the deal is closed, we're starting that work. But there is work. And I think the Activision Twitter handle (...) did put out something that talked about 2024. I think that's accurate. I would love it if there was some kind of secret celebration drop that's coming in the next couple of weeks. There's not. Definitely, when we think about the new games that are there, I would be straight with people. If we were going to put them in the subscription this year, I would tell people. And I know there'll be some disappointment about that."
Lång historia kort: förvänta dig alltså inte att några stora Activision Blizzard King-spel läggs till i Game Pass innan 2024. Spencer är dock smart och klargör att uppköpet av Activision Blizzard King kommer gynna Xbox-, PC-, mobil- och molnspelare på lång sikt:
"This acquisition is definitely long term, so the fact that we're not hitting day 1 with a bunch of games dropping in to Game Pass is a little bit of a downer, but I'm very excited about the future, and I just want to be straight with people that that's where we are."
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