Xbox boss Phil Spencer has reiterated his offer of welcome to PlayStation players after the closure of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Activision deal.

In an appearance on the official Xbox podcast last night, Spencer said that "For Call of Duty players on PlayStation, and in the future on Nintendo, I want you to feel 100%💦 part of the community. I don't want you to fওeel like there's content you're missing out, there are skins you're missing out, there's timing that you're missing out on. That's not the goal. The goal is 100% parity across all platforms as much as we can for launch and content."

Last week, as the deal closed, Spencer extended an olive branch to PS5 players who might have been affected by the acquisition, telling them, "You are welcome here - and will remain welcome." While Xbox now owns several major series including World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch, Call of Duty has proved a major sticking point for the merger, and the FPS series is clearly still on Spe🥀n☂cer's mind.

With the caveat that not every platform will 🎃be able to compete in terms of performance, Spencer claims that "there's nothing else" that will change between versio🅷ns of Call of Duty on different consoles, and that "we have no goal of somehow trying to use Call of Duty to get you to buy an Xbox console."

Spencer references the years during which Sony and Activision partnered to provide exclusive Call of Duty modes to PlayStation players, even noting that the ongoing 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Modern Warfare 3 open beta was not initially available on Xbox; "we've been🌠 on the other side of some of those times [...] I don't think that helps the game, and so it's the focus, if you're a PlayStation pla💃yer, Nintendo player, PC player, or an Xbox console player, I want you to feel 100% part of the Call of Duty nation."

The phrase 'Call of Duty nation' aside, that sentiment from Spencer will be intended to reassure players worried that the series would suffer on Sony consoles under 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft's ownership. Back in March of this year, in an attempt to hinder the deal, PlayStation claimed that it was worried Microsoft would sabotage Call of Duty on its consoles, but Spencer's suggesting here that he doesn't see the value in any kind of diminished experience - it sounds like even beta access will have full pari꧙ty, which is a long shot from development sabotage.

Now that the deal has gone through, Call of Duty will remain on PlayStation for at least 10 years. That's a lo♕ng time in game development, so there's no telling what w👍ill happen in 2033, but Microsoft has previously suggested that it would be happy to extend that agreement. 

Elsewhere on the podcast, Spencer told Game Pass users not to expect Activision-Blizzard games on the platform until next year.