Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s video game division, announced the company’s intention to carry the saga call of Duty for Nintendo (including Switch) and Steam consoles over the next ten years. For now, yes, the purchase continues.
This agreement was entered into at the time Various Regulators Evaluate Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Purchase With Magnifying Glass. These organizations fear that the sale of a company with key franchises in a sector such as call of Duty– could destabilize the video game industry and cause serious damage to competing companies such as Sony or Nintendo.
The North American company, given these concerns, also proposed call of Duty for Sony consoles over the next ten years, including, in theory, the entire lifecycle of the PlayStation 5 and, in theory, the early days of the PlayStation 6 (or PS6). In addition, Microsoft is committed to supporting call of Duty available on both Steam and its own store.
The main unknown about arrival call of Duty for Nintendo Switch yes whether the console will be able to run the same version that Activision Blizzard currently offers for both Xbox, PC and Playstation 5.. In this regard, Phil Spencer assured in statements Washington Post that the company has experience in both publishing games for Nintendo consoles and developing cross-platform games.
The fact that the agreements proposed by Microsoft are for ten years does not mean that after the specified period, the company will immediately give up rights to other platforms. Phil Spencer has repeatedly stressed that this number is for legal reasons, but the company intends to go further.
“It’s just a choice of an expiration date, not with the intention of ever expiring, but simply because the document’s legal language is supposed to specify a date. But once we start working with the platform, as we have with Minecraft, PlayStation and the Nintendo platform, our goal is to continue to support these customers.”
Phil Spencer at The Washington Post
The success of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 shows how important it is
launch Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 it was an absolute successapproaching total sales in just one week Call of Duty: Vanguard, its predecessor. It also quickly established itself as one of the best-selling video games of the year, despite only being on sale for a few weeks.
These excellent figures excellent reflection of the importance of the saga in this sector and how limiting the title to one console—Microsoft—could affect industry dynamics—pushing millions of users from one platform to another.
Microsoft, however insisted on his commitment to support call of Duty on other platforms, despite the doubts of both regulators and their competitors (Sony). Will the American company manage to convince all these players and close the acquisition in 2023 as planned?
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