Coronavirus påvirker alle brancher, og det gælder så sandelig også spilbranchen, der allerede nu primært har set aflysninger af messer, samt forsinkelser på store spillanceringer som Wasteland 3 og The Last of Us: Part II. Dog mener Activision Blizzard at de rent strategisk endnu er upåvirkede, men at de samtidig nok skal reevaluere indenfor en måneds tid.
Sådan siger CEO Bobby Kotick i hvert fald i et interview med CNBC, hvor han slår fast at de fleste af de spil som virksomheden har under udvikling, og det er lige fra Call of Duty 2020 til Overwatch 2 og Diablo IV, ikke er blevet påvirket af epidemien.
"Most of the things that we have in production and development are on track for now. I think we'll have to really reassess that in a month and in three months."
Dog har de igangsat et stort hjemmearbejdsinitiativ, og det forklarer Kotick også lidt om.
"We've been doing things like encouraging our employees to upgrade their home broadband to the highest bandwidth service and we're paying for that, we had equipment available for take home so everyone in the software development, art or animation functions, we made equipment available so they had the newest most secure devices, but I think it's still too early to know what the consequences [on] development will be for the next year or so."