Even if Microsoft’s unprecedented $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard goes by means of, Call of Duty is unlikely to go away PlayStation platforms any time quickly. We know that Sony has an ongoing contract with the writer that might be honoured, and Xbox has on the very least dedicated to three further years of multiformat assist in an try to appease regulators.

EA bigwig Andrew Wilson shouldn’t be dropping an excessive amount of sleep over the collection’ future on PS5 and PS4, nevertheless – actually, he sees an enormous alternative for his firm’s personal first-person shooter franchise, Battlefield. While the earlier instalment Battlefield 2042 has a horrible status and has did not retain gamers, the Australian govt was desirous to reiterate that the collection’ future will stay on PlayStation.

“In a world where there may be questions over the future of Call of Duty and what platforms that might be on or might not be on, being platform agnostic and completely cross-platform with Battlefield, I think is a tremendous opportunity,” he mentioned throughout a latest Goldman Sachs occasion, as reported by Seeking Alpha.

Obviously if Call of Duty ceases to launch on PlayStation platforms, it’ll go away a huge viewers on the lookout for one thing else to play. While it’s true that some gamers will merely go away Sony’s ecosystem and recreation elsewhere, others will search an alternate – and that’s the place Wilson believes his firm could possibly capitalise.

Of course, earlier than it will possibly even start to consider encroaching on Call of Duty’s territory, Battlefield must get again on observe. Speaking candidly, Wilson admitted that the earlier two entries within the property have failed to satisfy expectations. “I don’t think we delivered in the last two iterations of [Battlefield] in the way that we should have,” he mentioned of Battlefield 2042 and Battlefield V. He added that his firm has a “lot of work” to do to get the collection again on observe, however that the suitable groups are actually in place to grasp the collection’ “unbelievable ambitions” transferring forwards.

To be trustworthy, it’ll take a actually good Battlefield recreation to unseat Call of Duty, nevertheless it’s true that if the latter departs PlayStation there might be alternatives for different publishers. There’s no query that abandoning an viewers as massive as Sony’s will go away area for others to occupy – however in its present state, Battlefield’s bought a protracted method to go earlier than it emerges because the likeliest candidate.