a microsoft exec has claimed that the topic of call of duty exclusivity was never discussed during acquisition talks at least not with them this claim comes from microsofts chief financial officer amy hood via axios stephen totilo on twitter who revealed as part of microsofts ongoing court hearing with the us federal trade commission over its activision acquisition that talks about call of dutys exclusivity with microsoft wasnt ever mentioned during the companys acquisition discussionsthe possibility of making call of duty exclusive to xbox was never assessed or discussed with me hood writes in the document nor was it even mentioned in any of the presentations to or discussions with the board of directors as totilo also points out in a followup tweet hoods declaration also reveals that the final presentation to microsofts board of directors stated that the companys intention was to continue developing all acquired games and franchises and continue selling on all relevant platforms eg android ios playstation steam switch windows xbox etc hoods declaration also says that the final presentation to microsofts board stated the intention to continue developing all acquired games and franchises and continue selling on all relevant platforms eg android ios playstation steam switch windows xbox etc pictwittercommmfd3rcthpjune 29 2023see moreit appears that hood was serious about this intention as earlier this year microsoft signed a deal to put call of duty on nintendo consoles for 10 years regardless of the fact the uks competition and markets authority believes that the fps series will have a hard time running on the hybrid console elsewhere during microsofts and the ftcs trial microsoft ceo satya nadella said that he doesnt like the idea of consoleexclusive games and that if it was up to him hed get rid of them it was also revealed earlier this week via an internal email from xbox games studio head matt booty that microsoft was ready to spend sony out of business back in 2019the topic of making activision titles console exclusives has troubled sony in particular but who can blame it when in 2021 more than a million playstation players only played call of duty