Microsoft Enters Official Deal with Nintendo to Bring Call of Duty to Switch

The romance of buying Microsoft and Activision seems to have no end. And it remains unclear whether the regulators will finally give the green light to the purchase. Now, and little to sympathize with the regulators again, Microsoft and Nintendo have closed the agreement they announced some time ago. to bring Call of Duty and other Activision games to the Japanese platform.

While Call of Duty isn’t expected to be native to Nintendo anytime soon, at least not in current versions, it could be the starting point for bringing Microsoft’s cloud technology to Activision games. Especially after the massive leak last December about Call of Duty plans for 2023 and 2024.

However, it seems that Microsoft continues to pay special attention to this aspect. Its president, Brad Smith, tweeted Monday night that the deal, first announced in December, aims to “bring Xbox and Activision games like Call of Duty to more players on more platforms.”

The idea is that Call of Duty will be available to Nintendo players on the same day as Xbox players “with full features and content parity,” according to Microsoft. To this day, however, it doesn’t seem like the Switch powerful enough to see Warzone “full-featured”.

Microsoft has yet to convince regulators, but especially Sony

And with the agreement, even everything seems to be a move to convince the regulators. But in the end, the main stumbling block is not so much Microsoft’s intention to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo, but to do it in most important platform for the franchise: PlayStation.

The US Federal Trade Commission is trying to block the deal, and Microsoft is facing the same situation in Europe, with a bitter fight with one of the continent’s most important regulators, the British CMA.

Either way, this is great news for Nintendo gamers. but it seems that this will not be enough to dispel Sony’s doubts, which has a priority content deal with Activision for Call of Duty today and they don’t want to lose it.

In addition, Microsoft’s recent moves to create games such as Starfield an Xbox exclusive when they were multi-platform in their announcement, it doesn’t seem like it’s conducive to a promising future in which Microsoft doesn’t want to make Call of Duty exclusive, at least in content, to its platforms. At least the “premium” version of the game.

Let’s see if this move is enough to convince regulators. And, above all, to dispel the doubts of Sony.