After plenty of discrepancies between Xbox and Sony about whether Call of Duty will be available on other systems should Microsoft’s upcoming acquisition of Activision Blizzard go ahead, Xbox chief Phil Spencer has thrown another piece of hardware into the mix: the Nintendo Switch.
Per Tom Warren from The VergeToday at WSJ Live, Spencer said that Call of Duty will not only be available on PlayStation, but he also wants to bring it to the Nintendo hybrid.
“Call of Duty will be available specifically on PlayStation. I’d love to see it on Switch, and would love to see the game playable on many different screens. Our goal is to treat Call of Duty like Minecraft.”
Minecraft, for context, is available on an incredible number of platforms that include PC and Mac, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo multiplatform, Apple TV, Raspberry Pi, and more. For now, Call of Duty has only made its way to PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, and the planned acquisition has wondered if PlayStation might eventually be eliminated from the mix.
Last we heard, Sony’s Jim Ryan was claiming that Microsoft “only offered to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for three years following the expiration of the current agreement between Activision and Sony,” describing the proposal as “inappropriate on many levels”.
At the end of Spencer, he reiterated that while Call of Duty would come to Game Pass, he still intended for it to come to PlayStation the same day — but he stopped short of specifying how long that would take, or whether Xbox owners might not get other special perks on the game. other platforms.
However, the key text in Spencer’s previous statements was that Xbox’s goal was to make games available to as many people as possible on as many platforms as possible. He mentioned this again in the second half of his quote in WSJ Live, emphasizing the purpose of the Activision Blizzard deal for Xbox:
“This chance [the acquisition] It’s really mobile for us. “When you think about about three billion people playing video games, there are only about 200 million households on console.”
Activision Blizzard’s mobile arm, King, has previously been cited as the main reason for the acquisition, including major mobile franchises such as Candy Crush. It’s a big deal for a company like Xbox, which currently doesn’t have a huge presence in the mobile space.
The takeover battle has been particularly bizarre lately as many governments have begun investigating massive takeovers for potential antitrust violations. Xbox recently launched a website to tell the public what it thinks are the benefits of buying. Meanwhile, Sony has criticized the deal, saying it has “significant negative implications for gamers” and urging governments to consider it.
As for Call of Duty on the Switch? Nintendo has largely stayed behind and forward so far, although in 2019 there were rumors of Xbox Live on the Switch, and in 2021 more rumors hinted that Xbox Game Pass would similarly appear. Although this never materialized, we got Cuphead, Ori, and Blind Forest, which were previously Xbox exclusives. Maybe the conversations didn’t stop after all.
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