Microsoft officially “10-year commitment” to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo
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Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, says that they will bring the war shooter Call of Duty to Nintendo systems and Steam if the Activision Blizzard purchase closes.
If Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard were to come to fruition, the Xbox company promises to release Call of Duty games on Nintendo consoles and on Steam for at least a decade. Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, has assured on Twitter and in statements to The Washington Post .
“Microsoft has entered into a ten-year commitment to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo following the merger of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. Microsoft is committed to helping bring more games to more people, however they choose to play,” he says. the CEO in his message on the social network.
Microsoft has entered into a 10-year commitment to bring Call of Duty to @Nintendo following the merger of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard King. Microsoft is committed to helping bring more games to more people – however they choose to play. @ATVI_AB
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) December 7, 2022
The Xbox representative does not mention Nintendo Switch at any time, so it is not clear if the launch of Call of Duty on Nintendo will be for the hybrid console or for future hardware from the Japanese brand. He also does not specify if it will be the games of the main series intact (with the expected graphic concessions), adaptations of them as it happened in the Wii era, or a Nintendo version of Call of Duty Mobile and/or the upcoming Call of Duty. of Duty Warzone Mobile .
The executive has explained to the aforementioned North American header that if the agreement is closed on schedule (before June 2023) it will take a while to see Call of Duty on Nintendo because “starting to do the development work to make it possible will probably take a little while”.
The plan, he continues, would be to release the Call of Duty games on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, and Nintendo simultaneously. Internally, the series would be approached in a similar way to Mojang’s cross-platform hit: “We do this with Minecraft as well, where we do specific work to make the game work well on the Nintendo Switch and on your chip, and the platform is fully supported. We do the same thing.” when we release [Minecraft] on PlayStation 5.”
” Minecraft and Call of Duty are very different games,” he concludes. “But as far as how you bring games to Nintendo and how you manage a development team that’s targeting multiple platforms, that’s an experience we already have.”
Call of Duty will continue on Steam for a decade
Spencer also vows to continue releasing Call of Duty for PC on Steam. “I’m also pleased to confirm that Microsoft has committed to continuing to offer Call of Duty on Steam concurrently with Xbox after we have closed the merger with Activision Blizzard.”
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022) and Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 are the first games in the series to be released on Steam in addition to the Battle.net launcher, run by Activision Blizzard, since Call of Duty: WWII in 2017.
Our acquisition will bring Call of Duty to more gamers and more platforms than ever before. That's good for competition and good for consumers. Thank you @Nintendo. Any day @Sony wants to sit down and talk, we'll be happy to hammer out a 10-year deal for PlayStation as well. https://t.co/m1IQxdeo6n
— Brad Smith (@BradSmi) December 7, 2022
“We will be happy to make the effort to make a 10-year agreement for PlayStation”
Finally, the president of Microsoft, Brad Smith, has reiterated on Twitter this morning the possibility that PlayStation consoles continue to receive Call of Duty , as stipulated in an opinion column in the Wall Street Journal this week.
“Our acquisition will bring Call of Duty to more players and more platforms than ever before. That’s good for the competition and good for customers,” Smith writes on Twitter. “Thank you Nintendo. And any day Sony wants to sit down and talk, we’ll be happy to put in the effort to do a 10-year deal for PlayStation as well.”
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