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Microsoft Reaches 10-year Deal With Nintendo for Call of Duty (theverge.com) 28

Posted by msmash from the whatever-it-takes dept.
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.
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  • Why wouldn't Nintendo agree to this? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @10:25AM (#63110406)
    Is this just to hurt sony? Call of duty is hard leading critical to Nintendo's success after all but Sony needs it pretty badly.

    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.

    • MS offered the same deal to Sony. It's to appear magnanimous before regulators interested in scotching the entire merger/acquisition.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by BigZee ( 769371 )
      Pretty certain that anything MS is doing is to hurt Sony.

    • Re: Why wouldn't Nintendo agree to this? (Score:5, Interesting)

      by AutoTrix ( 8918325 ) on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @10:56AM (#63110508)
      Sony has way more of track record of abusing their dominate position in the market. Microsoft has made huge strides at increasing the openness and flexibility of gaming. The way they have managed Minecraft is their template for the future, after all the profit isn't in console exclusives anymore, it in reaching the widest audience. Sony's protectionist stance is going to result in its down fall.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by DarkOx ( 621550 )

        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

      • I am surprised that you find it exemplary behaviour to create a fork that leaves off a number of platforms (especially Linux) and requiring everyone to migrate their existing Mojang accounts to Microsoft's.

        • 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)

        • Switch, Playstation and Android both run Linux and have Minecraft Bedrock. The Microsoft account migration was always going to happen for security. It came with some bonuses, like the fact that they gave everyone the alternative copy of the game for PC if they didn't already own it. Microsoft still fully supports Java edition on Linux and I really don't see anyone wanting Bedrock edition on Linux that can't just run the android x86 version.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

        Sony has way more of track record of abusing their dominate position in the market. Microsoft has made huge strides at increasing the openness and flexibility of gaming. The way they have managed Minecraft is their template for the future, after all the profit isn't in console exclusives anymore, it in reaching the widest audience. Sony's protectionist stance is going to result in its down fall.

        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 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.

        • That was Sony refusing too allow Minecraft to be updated because of the account requirements for Xbox Live and play anywhere. That was Sony abusing their market position, not Microsoft... Microsoft just wanted Minecraft on PS to not be isolated from all the other Minecraft players.
      • We're not talking about Sony we're talking about Microsoft. Microsoft is the one proposing to buy out blizzard Activision not Sony.

        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

    • Is call of duty better than battlefield?

    • I'd bet Microsoft is pushing for lower fees. I'm no fan of CoD, but I recognize it's a system seller and doubt they're going to pay the same high platform fees everyone else does.

  • This will certainly work fine

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by wed128 ( 722152 )

      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...

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by godrik ( 1287354 )

      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

  • 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.

  • Promises to release on a platform is just bullsh;t even if there are performance level specified. Microsoft is notorious for both dragging their feet on even the smallest of software projects when other platforms are targets.

    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)

    by SinGunner ( 911891 ) on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @07:30PM (#63112230)
    This is Nintendo's long-awaited "fuck you" to Sony for stealing away (and bastardizing) the Final Fantasy franchise. NINTENDO NEVER FORGETS.

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