Lige nu afventer Microsoft endelig godkendelse af deres køb af Activision Blizzard, og hvorimod der fortsat er mange der mener at det her køb sker på baggrund af ønsket om flere platformeksklusive titler, så lader det til at være noget lidt andet som Microsoft går efter.
Ikke bare har de nævnt muligheden for at tilføje en masse ekstra værdi til Game Pass som en central grund til købet, men det er også for at ekspandere deres tilstedeværelse på mobil- og PC-markedet. I et interview med Bloomberg siger Spencer følgende:
"When we were thinking about what we are capable of doing today and where do we need to go, the biggest gaming platform on the planet is mobile phones. One and a half billion people play on mobile phones. And I guess regretfully as Microsoft it's not a place we have a native platform. As gaming, coming from console and PC, we don't have a lot of creative capability that has built hit mobile games. One thing about the video game space is, if you've been around maybe too long, you know most of the creators out there, so you kind of know teams that could be a good fit in terms of what we were trying to do. But we really started the discussions, internally at least, on Activision Blizzard around the capability they had on mobile and then PC with Blizzard. Those were the two things that were really driving our interest."
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