To know that depends on how the franchises are handled. Like if a COD, especially one that has a similar buzz and effect to it like Infinity, was exclusive it will probably win that year's console wars. But that depends on COD's status and we can't really be sure of that, or if Microsoft will treat it like Minecraft or Halo.

I know I'm a broken record at this point, but still standing firm at 88 million.

Like all the big AAA of Bethesda. Those are going to be exclusives (future titles); there is really 0 reason for Microsoft to have COD on Play Station, and the reasoning are the same than Bethesda.

People will either need a PC or buy an Xbox to play the next COD after the aquisition is done after 2023.

So yah, this will have a huge impact on sales, COD is mainly played on consoles and Sony payed a lot to make their console its home.

Now it is going back to the root :) Xbox baby!

Depends on how they handle exclusivity of course, but honestly I think we're only looking at a few mil more than what they could have done otherwise.
I voted 60-70 mil, but like I've said before it depends on whether they stick to a 7-year lifespan. I kind of expect the "Xbox Series" name might stick around longer than that and in that case the combined sales could be higher of course.

At an interview with Bloomberg, Spencer said that MS’s intention is not to pull away Activision/Blizzard communities from PlayStation .

In an economic way it makes sense but Spencer is not a guy that maintains his statements.

Just wanted to clarify the 2023 part: the acquisition is due to be completed during Microsoft's Fiscal Year 2023, which starts on July 1, 2022 (and runs thru June 30, 2023). So, most likely, it will be completed during the second half of this year, but with actual changes coming to games released in 2023. Call of Duty 2022 will almost assuredly be released on both PS5 and Xbox Series (and most likely PS4/Xbox One still as well), *but* Call of Duty 2023 and even Overwatch 2 (due to be released in 2023) might become Xbox Series console exclusives. Diablo 4 is another one, currently with no release date, that will probably be Xbox Series console exclusive.

However, I could see Microsoft continuing to support the battle royale, free-to-play Call of Duty Warzone into the indefinite future on PlayStation systems. Let PS gamers continue to play & support CoD that way, giving them a taste and ever tempting them to buy an Xbox Series system to play the mainline games.

Depends on how they handle it and gamepass as a whole moving forward. There are still a lot of unknowns, but I am voting over 100mil. At the very least, MS now has the ingredients to easily make this happen...as long as they don't drop the ball.

I think the Series X/S outsells the Xbox 360 at this point. We’re probably gonna get a ~10m sales year for 2022 and the!n 14m+ for the next several years after.

Depends on what MS decides to do with the IPs. If they start making the big IP's exclusive then I can see a big push in sales into the 90-100 million range (maybe even above 100 million). If everything is just multiplat still then I don't see much of a difference for hardware sales (but gamepass numbers would explode regardless of which route is taken)

If, going forward, the only way for console gamers to play COD, Doom and Elder Scrolls is to buy an Xbox, then that's a very big deal for Microsoft; and a massive blow to Playstation. Those aren't even IPs that I particularly care much about, but a lot of people do. I had doubts that any Xbox console would sell more than the 360, but if these truly are console exclusives then I think that Microsoft could certainly sell north of that system.

I never thought I'd consider choosing Xbox instead of PS, but if someone offered me one of the two new consoles right now... I'd choose Xbox. I'd rather play Forza Horizon 5 than any PS5 exclusive at the moment, and neither Xbox Series console (X or S) looks hideous like Playstation 5 does.