Microsoft's Call of Duty acquisition could be great for Battlefield

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EA believes Microsoft's potential acquisition of Activision could offer the Battlefield series a 'tremendous opportunity.'

Battlefield's platform agnostic nature could be a boon in wake of Microsoft's Activision deal

While Microsoft and Xbox boss Phil Spencer are committed to saying that Call of Duty, one of the biggest game franchises in the world, would remain on PlayStation consoles for the near future, the deal is beingPlayStation says that the deal would have"major negative implications for gamers," while Xbox says that it"makes zero business sense for Microsoft to remove Call of Duty from 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," Wilson said."Being platform agnostic and completely cross-platform with Battlefield, I think is a tremendous opportunity." Of course, that"tremendous opportunity" hangs on the fact that EA can turn the franchise around, which Wilson also spoke about:"I don't think we delivered in the last two iterations of that in the way that we should have," Wilson said."There's a lot of work that we've got to do there. But at its very core, this extraordinary IP. And what we've seen in the world of entertainment is great IP is resilient.

"We've seen movies not live up to the expectations of franchises. Star Wars might be one such franchise, and then you can see what happens when you get the right creative team involved, how they can completely reinvent and grow a franchise. And I think we have an extraordinary creative team involved in Battlefield now who have unbelievable ambitions to own the first puts and shoot space, particularly as it feels to creation.

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Gonna hit up Mr Ryan and offer him to buy exclusivity no doubt, EA would charge you for ammo if they could

OR Titanfall 2 which had an outstanding multiplayer

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