Microsoft Reaches 10-year Deal With Nintendo for Call of Duty (theverge.com) 28
Microsoft says it has reached a 10-year agreement with Nintendo to make Call of Duty available on Nintendo consoles if the Activision Blizzard acquisition closes. From a report: The deal is similar in length to what Microsoft has offered Sony, and the Xbox maker has also committed to continue to offer new versions of Call of Duty on Steam at the same time they launch on Xbox. The deal is clearly designed to put pressure on Sony to accept a similar offer, just days after Microsoft president Brad Smith said "Sony has emerged as the loudest objector" to Microsoft's proposed $68.7 billion acquisition and that "it's as excited about this deal as Blockbuster was about the rise of Netflix." Microsoft confirmed earlier this week that it had offered Sony a 10-year contract to make each new Call of Duty release available on PlayStation the same day as it launches on Xbox.
Why wouldn't Nintendo agree to this? (Score:3, Interesting)
In any case it doesn't benefit sony to accept this deal. Microsoft has a long history of sabotaging any kind of deal and abusing tricks to get around legal constraints. It ain't done until lotus 1 2 3 won't run.
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MS offered the same deal to Sony. It's to appear magnanimous before regulators interested in scotching the entire merger/acquisition.
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AFAIK, and I don't work for any of those companies, but from what I've heard the Xbox division is run differently than Microsoft, so business as usual for Microsoft isn't necessarily the same for Xbox.
In fact, Xbox seems to be acting more like Netflix, trying to have "Xbox everywhere". And it makes sense since after all the game consoles don't make profits, the games and services do.
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Re: Why wouldn't Nintendo agree to this? (Score:5, Interesting)
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That supposed the market place for Minecraft and Call of Duty is the same. I don't think is...
Nobody is shelling out for a console to play shitty puzzle games, that are already best enjoyed on their mobile. On the other hand they absolutely will buy one to play the next COD. There are more blades for those console razors now than ever, in terms of enhanced controllers, branded memory cards, 'network/shop' points, possible AR stuff coming down the pike, etc. TBH if I was in charge of Sony marketing strat
Re: Why wouldn't Nintendo agree to this? (Score:3, Informative)
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Microsoft didn't fork Minecraft, it merged like 10 forks into one code base. You can also run that new merged branch on Linux with like 30 seconds of effort. Minecraft Java Edition also still works just fine on Linux and is officially supported.
requiring everyone to migrate their existing Mojang accounts to Microsoft's.
Oh no! You had to migrate an account from the developer's old account system to the developer's new system? What ever will you do. ðY(TM)
Re: Why wouldn't Nintendo agree to this? (Score:2)
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it's why Microsoft won't abandon CoD for PlayStation either. Something like half the money for CoD comes from Play
Hate to break it to you (Score:2)
Hate to break it to you but MS has a pretty bad history of abusing their dominant market position!
Using your example of Minecraft, MS refused to update the game on Sony platforms unless Sony allowed Xbox Live sign-ij on PlayStation.
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That's just what about ism (Score:2)
And the only reason Microsoft doesn't abuse their market position more is that they have so thoroughly abused it at this point they have virtually no competitors. So much so that the only way they were ever able to get anything that even could potentially be a competitor was when someone literally gave the product away. And Microsoft has plenty of ways to make sure you can't
Re: That's just what about ism (Score:2)
Re: Why wouldn't Nintendo agree to this? (Score:1)
Is call of duty better than battlefield?
Re: Why wouldn't Nintendo agree to this? (Score:2)
In other news: (Score:2)
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Jingoism (Score:2)
Shooter on a 10 year old cellphone (Score:2)
This will certainly work fine
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The graphics will certainly take a hit, but call of duty is largely unchanged since like 2006, so I don't see why it mechanically wouldn't work. Maybe warzone is too many simultaneous players, but I wouldn't mind playing a COD campaign on the bus or whatever...
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Nice jab, but quite false.
10 years ago the iphone 5 was released. it got about 20GFlops of performance.
The nintendo switch comes with a tegra X1+ processor which clocks at about 700GFlops/. So about 30 times faster than an iphone 5.
Now, obviously a playstation 5 clocks at about 10 TFlops. But playstation 5s are not portable. For comparison the iphone14 is at about 1TFlops.
So, you know the nintendo switch is doing fine for what it is.
(I quote FP32 performance. Obviously flops is not a great measure of perfor
Crazy idea for regulators (Score:2)
How about you block console providers from buying new studios for any reason other than to unlock their IP if they go bankrupt? Bring all of this in house to Microsoft does nothing for the public interest.
and it'll run just grand on the "other" platforms (Score:2)
This is like having a peanut vending machine for hand-feeding a captive T-Rex. Put any living/realistic deadly creature in you want the point is you do not feed that beast. Your lawyers and execs are very ignorant if they think they can compete with Microsoft while Microsoft puts apps/s
Call of Duty 7: Advent Children (Score:3)