Microsoft signs 10-year deal to bring Call of Duty games to Nintendo platforms

 

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Call of Duty will now be available on Nintendo, according to an official agreement.

 

Brad Smith, vice chair and president of Microsoft, announced early on Tuesday that his company and Nintendo had inked a “binding 10-year legal agreement,” according to Smith, that will make Call of Duty available to Nintendo customers. To make the experience complete, it will release the game for Nintendo players on the same day as its corresponding Xbox release date, “with full feature and content parity.”

 

The most recent Call of Duty would be made available to Nintendo “following the merger with Activision,” according to a footnote in a separate release from Microsoft discussing an agreement with NVIDIA.

Of course, the latter has continued to be a point of dispute in recent months. For instance, the FTC filed a lawsuit in December to halt the multibillion-dollar acquisition. Activision Blizzard would be acquired in an all-cash deal valued at more than $68 billion, according to Microsoft’s official announcement of the deal in January of last year.