Microsoft signs 10-year deal to bring future Xbox games, including Call of Duty, to Nintendo

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Microsoft President Brad Smith has announced that the company has signed a 10-year deal to bring Xbox games, including Call of Duty once acquired, to Nintendo gamers.

The signed deal means Microsoft is delivering on its promise to the Federal Trade Commission to make Call of Duty available to other platform companies like Nintendo if its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard is approved.

Smith said in a tweet, "This is just part of our commitment to bringing Xbox games and Activision titles like Call of Duty to more players on more platforms."

The binding agreement means Nintendo players will receive the games the same day as Xbox, with full feature and content parity, so they can experience Call of Duty just as Xbox and PlayStation players enjoy Call of Duty. Duty.

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Microsoft has said it is committed to providing long-term equal access to Call of Duty to other gaming platforms. The FTC has sued Microsoft for possible antitrust claims, and Microsoft has not sued Microsoft. yet been able to strike a similar deal with Sony, which is trying to get regulators to void the deal.

The feature parity claim is interesting because I think it means Microsoft will bring the game to a new Nintendo console that has yet to be announced, as such a machine would be able to run the Call of Duty game complete. The Nintendo Switch is not capable of running all of Call of Duty I believe.

I think the wording is very careful. Microsoft said it was bringing the games to Nintendo gamers, but it didn't specifically say it was bringing the games to the Switch.

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