{"id":6796,"date":"2022-01-29T08:56:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T12:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/?p=6796"},"modified":"2022-01-29T08:56:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T12:56:22","slug":"how-microsofts-acquisition-could-affect-what-games-go-on-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/2022\/01\/how-microsofts-acquisition-could-affect-what-games-go-on-xbox\/","title":{"rendered":"How Microsoft’s Acquisition Could Affect What Games Go On Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Microsoft announced<\/a> that they agreed to acquire Activision Blizzard King.\u00a0This information was posted on Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Wire website, with a banner showing significant characters from several of Blizzard\u2019s games, one Call of Duty character, and an image from Candy Crush.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that all of those games will come to Xbox. For example, Diablo II: Resurrected launched on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. (In addition to PS5 | PS4, Nintendo Switch, and BattleNet.) I\u2019ve been playing it on Xbox S. Diablo III is available on Xbox\u00a0 <\/span>One, and Xbox Series X|S, BattleNet or Nintendo Switch. Those games are currently on Xbox.<\/p>\n

Diablo Immortal is an app game that is currently still in testing. When it launches, players can obtain it through the App Store or Google Play. As far as I can tell, Diablo Immortal is intended to be played on a phone or tablet, so I don\u2019t see it coming to Xbox.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Candy Crush also makes app games that are on the App Store or Google Play. The King website notified players that Candy Crush Saga will no longer be available on the website as of March 31, 2022. I suspect this means King wants to focus on apps. Hearthstone is available on Mac and PC and also on phones and tablets as an app. But, that doesn\u2019t mean there will be a playable version on Xbox.<\/p>\n

\"\"Overwatch can be played on a PC (but not on a Mac). It also is possible to play it on Xbox. Overwatch 2 has been mentioned, but appears to be on hold for now.<\/p>\n

What about World of Warcraft? The official WoW website tells me that WoW is available on Mac (which is what I play on) or PC. There\u2019s no mention<\/i> of consoles at all. If you do a search for \u201cWorld of Warcraft on Xbox\u201d you will see a bunch of articles that are speculating about the possibility of it coming to Xbox. But, that does not confirm that this will happen.<\/p>\n

Activision\u2019s Call of Duty games are on Xbox – but not necessarily on every type of Xbox console. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is on Xbox X|S, and Xbox One. Call of Duty: Vanguard is on Xbox One, Xbox X|S. Other Call of Duty games are not on Xbox.<\/p>\n

There has been some concern that Microsoft will decide to pull all Call of Duty games from Playstation to Xbox. CEO of Xbox Phil Spencer has quashed that rumor in a tweet<\/a>\u00a0in which he stated that he spoke with leaders at Sony, and expressed desire to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In short, some of Blizzard\u2019s games are already on Xbox. Some of Activision\u2019s games are. We will have to wait and see if older \u201cbackwards compatible\u201d games from these companies end up on Xbox consoles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft announced that they agreed to acquire Activision Blizzard King.\u00a0This information was posted on Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Wire website, with a banner showing significant characters from several of Blizzard\u2019s games, one Call of Duty character, and an image from Candy Crush. That doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that all of those games will come to Xbox. For example, … Continue reading “How Microsoft’s Acquisition Could Affect What Games Go On Xbox”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[349,12,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diablo","category-hearthstone","category-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6796"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6803,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions\/6803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}