The Xbox CFO said when they acquired Bethesda that their plan wasn't to make their games exclusive, but "best or first" (multiplatform or temporal console exclusives) on Xbox.
CoD has been signed to be at least 10 years more on PS and they'll negotiate to expand the deal once it expires. Plus the whole Activision Blizzard catalog for the next 15 years (plus their entire back catalog) will be available via Ubisoft in competing game subs with cloud gaming. Meaning, Sony can sign them for PS+. And games in PS+ must also be available in the PSN store to purchase.
Meaning, pretty likely the entire lineup of Activision Blizzard console games for -at least- the next 15 years of Activision Blizzard (plus their complete back catalog) will be available in PS. Maybe they do like with Bethesda and some title -specially new IP- may come after some timed console exclusivity on Xbox.
This guy has no idea he's talking about. A port will cost them like a couple millions only.
PS5 and Switch have a way bigger userbase, who unlike the Xbox one are more used to buy games instead of giving away them on a game sub or getting them dirt cheap on Steam. So these games will make way more money in rival consoles than their related Xbox/PC sales + GP revenue.
Satya knows that their current gaming business is a money pit where they lost a ton of billions of dollars in loses and on top of that dozens of billions in aquisitions. He also knows that these games sell way more and generate way more revenue on rival consoles. This is why he bought them and will kept them as multiplatform. Same goes with mobile, he bought King to grow in mobile because it has a ton of users and generates a ton of revenue and profit.
Satya cares about growing their playerbase, revenue and turning MS gaming division into a profitable business. He won't keep losing dozens of billions with a retarded strategy just to keep a couple of Xboxera fanboys happy.
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