One of the most interesting and important statements in the lawsuit between Microsoft and the United States Federal Trade Commission took place yesterday: Bobby Kotick. The Activision CEO has so far taken the stage to answer questions from the FTC and Microsoft’s attorney, providing revealing information about the buying process, the importance of Call of Duty in the industry and console details not yet announced. .
And it was good old Kotick who sinned by speaking out on some details related to the successor to the Nintendo Switch. A new console that, despite being an open secret, is not yet official, but it has already been confirmed that it will be equal in power to Xbox One and PS4
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Beyond these details, Kotick mentioned that while his predictions are generally not accurate and accurate, he is of the opinion that the growth of gamers primarily on mobile phones. Especially when these start to get even more powerful, allowing more people to use them to play games, even going so far as to claim that the chips can be equivalent to dedicated video game systems. Additionally, answering further questions about the mobile gaming market, he confirmed that Call of Duty Mobile has cross-play between Apple and Android
On another note, the Activision CEO has confirmed that, for now, they have no plans to port their games to any streaming or subscription service. Something that they will always keep and that if the purchase is not confirmed, they will never do it with Call of Duty. Also, this confirms that in 2020 they intended to add games to Xbox Game Pass, but ultimately, for some undisclosed reason, decided against it.
On the other hand, he said that Phil Spencer never told him he wanted to remove Call of Duty from PlayStation consoles.
Regarding the purchase process, one of the questions from the FTC was why did I agree to know that Microsoft would add its games to Xbox Game Pass and their opinion on subscription services. The answer Kotick gave obviously makes sense, since he did it because the 98% of shareholders voted for and, beyond philosophical disagreements over subscription services, it must respect the decision of the vast majority of shareholders. Finally, among the highlights of everything Kotick said was the affirmative response that Xbox teams, if purchased, would be fully capable of preparing and developing a version of Call of Duty for Nintendo Switch.