Microsoft and Nintendo have reached a new 10-year binding legal agreement to license Call of Duty games to their consoles with full feature, content, and release date parity as regulators across the globe continue to monitor the Microsoft-Activision deal.
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Microsoft Vice Chairman and President Brad Smith announced that Microsoft had signed a decade-long deal with Nintendo to license Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty franchise to Nintendo consoles. However, the new legal agreement apparently requires that all Call of Duty titles that go to Nintendo's consoles must be released simultaneously with the Xbox versions, as well as all features and content that are present in other versions.
The new agreement might greatly help Microsoft's fight in court before the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which proviso found that the acquisition would result in two significant reduced competition scenarios (SLCs) in the console hardware and cloud gaming sectors. Stay tuned here at MP1st for all new information and updates on Microsoft's planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
