Microsoft’s concessions and ambitions to get the Activision Blizzard deal done as soon as possible took a giant step forward today. This morning, Brad Smith, vice-president of Microsoft announced that they have reached an agreement with Nintendo for 10 years to bring Call of Duty to their consoles with an equivalent parity, that is to say the same version and on the same date. Release. . And a few minutes ago they just announced another one with Nvidia, one of the opponents with Sony for purchase.
Concretely, Phil Spencer himself has just officially announced it: They signed another 10-year contract with Nvidia to allow GeForce NOW gamers to be able to play their Xbox games on PC as well, including the Call of Duty series and Activision Blizzard titles when the deal is done and they’re in control, of course.
We have signed a 10-year agreement with NVIDIA that will allow GeForce NOW gamers to stream Xbox PC games as well as Activision Blizzard PC titles, including COD, after the acquisition. We’re committed to bringing more games to more people, however they choose to play.
—Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) February 21, 2023
Microsoft goes all out and reduces doubts to zero with the acquisition of Activision Blizzard
In this thread we borrowed from Eurogamer.net You can see everything Brad Smith said after the long meeting with the European Commission. There are good things and not so good things, but at least with the deals with Nintendo and Nvidia, the only thing left against them is Sony. Microsoft takes the opportunity to claim that PlayStation controls 80% of the European marketsomething that is far from fair competition and that with the agreement with Nintendo they themselves will allow the Call of Duty saga to reach 150 million more players than they currently had no way to do.
These deals with Nintendo and Nvidia are an important concession, but also a path that Microsoft wanted to continue bringing its titles to as many platforms as possible. Of course, they’ll keep some of their exclusives to give their own platforms the value they deserve, since they’re manufacturers, but offer Activision Blizzard titles not just openly, but to other platforms that were previously “prohibited” is a feat that makes the most optimistic about buying.
Pedro del Pozo
Passionate about video games for 20 years, Pecero at heart, until the Xbox One seduced me in the living room. Shooting games are my passion and open world games my natural enemy.
