Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, communicated via Twitter that Call of Duty will be on Nintendo for the next decade. More info, here!
It’s official! Microsoft will provide the rights to call of duty to Nintendo for the following 10 years. According to the word of Brad Smith in Twitteronce the purchase of Microsoft about Activision-Blizzardthe users of the Japanese console will receive the new installments of the franchise shooter next to Xbox and PlayStation.
For more than a year Microsoft seeks to complete the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard and after the recent revelation of the agreement with Nintendo it seems that from the company founded by Bill Gates They feel confident that it can be done.
For now, these were the words of the president of Microsoft, Brad Smiththrough your personal account Twitter: “Microsoft and Nintendo have negotiated and signed a 10-year legal bond to bring call of duty to the players of Nintendo“. In turn, the executive clarified that the shooter it would come the same way for so long Switch, XBOX and PlayStation in terms of content and date of availability.
Besides, Smith continued: “We are committed to providing long-term equal access to call of duty for other gaming platforms, bringing more options for more players and more competition in the market.” This last statement could be interpreted as a message between the lines for the FTCentity that regulates the purchase of Microsoft toward Activision-Blizzard given to an alleged “anti-competitiveness” on the part of the owners of Xbox.
As a complement, the commercial alliance between Nintendo and Microsoft did not take the ecosystem by surprise gamer so that in December 2022 The intention of both companies to work together was also communicated, although on that occasion it was Phil Spencerhe CEO of Xboxwho had shared the news.
To finish, the Federal Trade Commission better known by its acronym FTCcommented in January 2023 who will give a final verdict on this long case during the month of June. In any case, the initial agreement between Microsoft and Activision-Blizzard by $68.7 billion It is over a year old and the future is still not clear. Do you think that the purchase will be finalized after so many twists and turns?