To suddenly cut Call of Duty (or Activision’s other multi-platform titles) off from Playstation would be massively value destructive; no wonder Microsoft said it was happy to sign a 10-year deal with Sony to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation.
It would be value destructive if all those Sony buyers decided to shrug and not buy a CoD game ever again. It wouldn't be at all if the CoD players could be lured to buy an Xbox. This article asserts that there's effectively no difference between the hardware at this point, so if we accept the article's arguments here, getting the consumers to move from Sony to Xbox with exclusives is theoretically easier than it's ever been. No wonder people are alarmed.
Considering consoles are sold basically at or below cost, getting someone to buy a console instead of just the game almost seems like a value destroyer.
Either way, there surely is a large chunk of people who won’t buy multiple $500 consoles, and those sales WILL be lost of you don’t make the game for their console. I imagine it’s greater than the number of people who will buy another console.
