Microsoft Enters "10-Year Commitment To Bring Call Of Duty To Nintendo"

Great news! Also, Playstation is conveniently not mentioned.

EDIT: I blame it on it being early morning or that it got added later xD

@Bomberman64
Microsoft offered the same deal to PlayStation but Sony refused it.

Good, stick it to sony for being so damn petty. Grow up or actually make games that people want to buy.

PlayStation s, we salute you. 🫡

Insert Shrek "like that's ever gonna happen". If they get any recent cods to run natively on switch I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Huh.

My guess is "lols cloud version" and we just roll our eyes for 10 years, but they did make downgraded versions of COD for Wii and those were actually pretty well received AFAIK. COD's big enough where they could justify doing that I imagine.

I'm still so conflicted on this acquisition. It genuinely seems like this is the best opportunity for Activision Blizzard to not be an irredeemably terrible work place but its still incredibly concerning that any one gaming company (especially one of the big 3) could buy so many massive game companies. (though tbh, the real thing that shouldn't have happened was Microsoft buying both Bethesda and Obsidian)

I haven't played a Call of Duty since 3, but might jump back into the series if they put them on Switch/Switch successor.

I love how this plan includes bringing the series to Nintendo and Steam but not PS. This should warrant a popcorn worthy response from Jim Ryan.

Its probably too late for any Call of Duty titles to launch on Switch but this does confirm the franchise will be on Switch 2 and beyond for at least 10 years.

This was a genius play by Microsoft. Blocking the Activision Blizzard acquisition would now result in no Call of Duty on Nintendo platforms, which means any effort to prevent the acquisition from going through could be seen as anti-competitive. Microsoft is effectively taking the "anti-competition" argument and using it against their opponents (i.e. Sony).

@westman98 I bet you 5 billion dollars in the morning, Sony will be banging down Microsofts door screaming OK, OK WE WILL SIGN THE DEAL! you think they want to be the only platform not to have call of duty? The radical Sony fans won't allow it.

@westman98 To be fair to Sony, going from forever to 10 years is a lot less appealing than Nintendo's probably never to 10 years.

Thank you Sony for your infinite pettiness! Because of it, we’re getting COD on Nintendo

The “unprecedented partnership” EA promised back in the day.

Can't wait for Call of Duty: Legacy Edition.

Junk series that’s easily deconstructed into the pile of nothing skinner box that it is but because of this industry slap fighting is now being talked about as if it’s some cornerstone masterpiece.
In 10 years time how much more of industry will they own? I suppose creepy uncle guy expects what they do after 10 years will be irrelevant as long they continue to face no serious pushback from regulators.

For those of you not following, Sony is losing their mind over CoD, to the point where most are convinced if Microsoft was buying every part of Activision except CoD they wouldn't care. They've already been told it'll remain Multiplatform and they won't cancel or alter the pre-existing remaining deal for timed exclusivity for DLCs/add-ons (which they didn't do for Deathloop or Ghostwire: Tokyo after buying Bethesda), but Sony's not having it. And handing Nintendo the same offer Sony shunned is gonna make the FTC likely to lean more in their favor in some way.

As much as I'd love to see all the Activision-Blizzard games possible be part of Game , at this point I just want the deal to either go through or be denied just to stop hearing about it.

Checkmate Sony, now that Nintendo has scored a deal, opposing this would screw over Nintendo, which would completely destroy any argument they had when it came to looking out for what's best for the industry.

Game over man!

Nintendo when they get Call of Duty for 10 years without doing anything:

All the classic Black ops and Modern Warfare maps NOW

@Zverik Uhh Nintendo already accepted the deal lol, why would they oppose it?

On Nintendo's console it will be known as Cloud Of Duty.

@ClockworkMario you beat me to that post!! 🤣

Sony was the exclusive king since the PS2 (GTA anyone) and now they have the nerve to complain about Microsoft?And it all rings so false while at the same time they are complaining about CoD on Xbox they are securing even more console exclusivity deals with Silent Hill, Final Fantasy, etc.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika no need to have the negative vibes.

Sony right now:

this is all about microsoft wanting this activision deal to go through it is all smoke and mirrors once the deal is done microsoft will make a excuse to say the deal with nintendo fell through

If FIFA is anything to go by, we'll just get half-arsed ports and incomplete games that run poorly.

@johnedwin Not really how these things work

This shows the difference between Sony and Nintendo. Nintendo got a full unique product with 100% confidence in what they do, therefor they dont care about what Microsoft do or dont do. Sony got their own good ips and design, but have zero confidence, they base everything on AAA 3rd party games. Maybe they Should respond by showing that they trust in their own work by announcing more PS uniqueness, own ips etc and stop trying to make themself a victim that is in soar need of products that isnt made by themself. Their PR manager needs to fix this, because they are really looking weak when they moan like this.. shut it and make your own fps shooter that can compete against cod. (Like Nintendo did with splatoon )

Awesome... so the games that were never coming to the Switch and it's successor, are now allowed to come but won't, well not in the way most people think as this will be legacy cash in ports more than anything else.

Situation on the Playstation is a little different, as it's a directly competing console, and of course Microsoft will want to make all the right noises so they do not have issues with the deal, possibly falling through due to monopoly concerns etc etc, this is of course a bigger issue as they have already bought a massive publisher in Zenimax, and also with Europe seemingly haviing more issues with the Activision takeover than anywhere else, Microsoft are treading very carefully with this to see it over the line.

In reality though Microsoft will be making the franchise exclusive in some way or other, as otherwise there would have been very little reason to spend as much as they did in the first place.

I don't often purchase Microsoft's products, but I have mad respect for them, nonetheless. Now that the Switch has GTA, CoD is pretty much the last big hitter not available on the platform in some capacity. I really hope this merger goes through. It may even put us one step closer to getting Crash and Spyro in Smash someday. We've come so far since the days when Nintendo fans would dunk on "Xbone."

@Bomberman64 so you didn’t read the article then

Couldn’t care less for COD personally, but having more 3rd party games on Nintendo consoles, especially M rated games, is a good thing.

However, this thing isn’t gonna happen until a massive hardware upgrade. Nintendo console players deserve great versions of multiplat games.

Haha Microsoft are straight up trolling Somy at this point. As if they had a leg to stand on anyway!

I reckon panic button will be getting a call from Activision soon.

But to be fair all they'd have to do is port over a decent versions of black ops 2 and modern warfare to get in people's good books and then go from there

This is absolutely crazy news.
It's already crazy when CoD is tried out to be released on the Switch with one game. But a ten year commitment is maybe among the biggest steps of Nintendo breaking into the PSXBOX Mainstream space ever.

Not saying I'm gonna play a single second but I can imagine that MS might see the Switch and its logical successors as the portable expansion of the XBox as they don't have intentions to create something on their own. So after they already tested the waters with games like Ori and Minecraft, they might be there to stay. And sure, it might be a great alliance against Sony. Spencer already dreamed about Game on Switch one or two years ago, so we can only be curious about the things to come next.

@johnvboy they signed a deal and a contract with Nintendo to bring future COD games to Nintendo platforms, this isn't just a word of trust from Phil Spencer.

They can't "allow it to come but won't actual make them", this is a signed contract deal between Microsoft and Nintendo to make COD games available on Nintendo platforms the same day as other consoles.

No thank you, the Switch is fine without some souless online shooter.
Also it will just be a downgrade and everyone will hate the look and feel of it, so they are going to be shooting themselves in the foot

Are these deals really meant to be made public or are they just doing it to put pressure onto Sony to sign a deal

@Bunkerneath if the games aren't cloud then people should complain about Nintendos hardware holding them back like they do with every cross gen game that releases 😂

Look, gamers are stupid as a rule ... nothing wrong with that, it's a young demographic with little life experience. The only thing stupider are the people from non-gaming focused media when the cover games. But even taking that into , this is a new low in just missing the point and sensualizing something for no reason.

How many times can Phil say "WE ARE BUYING CANDY CRUSH" before people get it. Read his statements in full, they are hilarious.

Call of Duty made 9.7 billion over 20 years with a budget in the $100s of million for the newer games. Candy Crush made 7 billion in 10 years and 10 people made it for free lunches and scratch lotto tickets. We already have a 6-billion-dollar FPS exclusive, we would we want COD to cannibalize on sales? We are buying Candy Crush.

Nintendo has a record-breaking console and breaks sales records with virtually every 1st party game they put out, and yet 20%+ of their revenue is from like 7 mobile games! We are buying Candy Crush.

We have 23 first party developers. We make enough money to buy SONY outright every 70 days or so, if we thought the future was in consoles. We have NO mobile developers, after running two of them to the ground. We are buying Candy Crush.

Windows app store for windows phone, which AT IT’S PEEK had 1.2% market share was more profitable than Xbox. We are buying Candy Crush.

And yet the only thing anyone ever asks him about is COD. The only thing anyone talks about is COD. It just blows my mind.

Someone is trying really hard to avoid antitrust troubles.

@JayJ how would it screw over Nintendo exactly , I'll bet Activision have been looking at the switch base & licking their lips for a while now & it was probably already planned to release on nintendos console in some form anyway lol

I hope the old Nintendo port enthusiasts at Treyarch get to muck about with this. ^^

@Would_you_kindly Well that's assuming a lot considering how we have gone an entire generation essentially with Activision showing zero signs or intentions of bringing COD to Nintendo until this deal just happened with Microsoft.

Why would they suddenly do something completely different with zero incentive?

This is hilarious and an absolute checkmate against Sony. They now essentially have to accept or risk getting left without any deal; whilst Microsoft fulfils its promise to keep COD on multiple platforms (Nintendo/Steam and all the Xbox stores… and I assume the random mobile games that come out too). Word up son.

Yes. Finally CoD with 30 fps, low details, bad internet and bad language over Switch Online App. 😂

@SalvorHardin I agree, does microsoft need to be any bigger.

I'm not sure about playing CoD MP crossplay via switch, the resolution and frame rate difference is bound to cause problems.

I'd gladly pay for some sort of collection. Like have a MW collection, Waw/BO collection. Have them work like the Master Cheif collection collect the campaigns then have some sort of universal MP

@JayJ that's really just because of nintendos hardware being outdated with them doing a warzone mobile port I can see that also coming to switch

@K1LLEGAL without seeing all the of this deal we can only speculate as to what this really means although it could genuinely state that they'll put every single call of duty game they release on nintendos console the same day it releases on Xbox I'm not so sure

Today I learned that a lot of Nintendo Life readers don't understand what it means to sign a contract.

Hmm. Call of Duty on the Switch, eh? As long as they're not cloud versions then this should be interesting.

This feels like a very short-sighted decision on Nintendo's part. Square Enix RPGs are a lot more valuable to Nintendo fans than CoD and the Activision acquisition going through allows Sony to acquire Square Enix.

@Would_you_kindly yea you are right; these are barebones details. But i’m sure somewhere in there it probably says “a minimum of 2 (or 3) releases in a 10 year time span”. Would be interesting if it was just legacy titles or newer campaigns or multiplayer or what…

@electrolite77,

Lets just see what happens, as you say it makes sense to keep the relationship going, but companies do not always do what's for the best.

It's hilarious that this kind of only really happened so Microsoft could troll Sony.

Microsoft and Nintendo seem to have quite a good relationship though, what with Banjo Kazooie in Smash and Goldeneye coming to Switch.

@Itachi2099,

Totally get that, but the games are not coming out now, or for the last six years on the Switch, so while I agree this is a contract between them, I still can't see masses of content in the form of new games, only legacy stuff... I stand to be corrected though, when the uber powerful Switch Pro Dx 2 comes out...

Another low effort cash grab like fifa. No one needs this sort of games on the switch.

And I wonder if Sony will regret closing all their first party Japanese development teams now. I really liked their first party games back in the PS1/PS2 days...

(A humorous top comment)

Sony: Microsoft having exclusivity to COD would destroy the industry its not fair!

Microsoft: Okay we will bring COD to Nintendo for 10 years

Sony: NO, NOT LIKE THAT!

is this deal for Call of Duty on Nintendo consoles, is for older games of the franchise or new games? games build specially for the console, is Call of Duty the only franchise Microsoft is gonna bring to Nintendo consoles? what about Banjo Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot or Spryro? Nintendistas are far more intereted in having this franchises on Nintendo consoles then Call of Duty.

Guess that means the switch will finally get call of duty mobile!😆

@HandheldHaunter cod mobile is the only one I actually want tbh lol doesn't take up a huge amount of space ,don't need a subscription to play online because it's ftp , I only really play team deatmatch & have no interest in warzone & it has a load of good classic maps lol

Omg this news is mind blowing.. having switch 3 years and i was a FPS fans somore this is BEST news so FAR

Fair enough. I mean, they're clearly doing this because of Sony, so I'm not sure how much effort they'd put into this.... would be more exciting to see Perfect Dark back on a Nintendo console!

Has nobody thought that perhaps they might make ground up Switch versions of COD rather than thinking "urgh, cloud" or "urgh, mobile"?

Nahhh that's far too positive.

Playstation is such a sad company under Jim Ryan, petty, rude and downright hilarious.

@SalvorHardin

Man go in with all of that nonsense. Hope that we had that same energy when sony were eagerly buying talent & money hatting every freaking body forever. Come on nan.

@johnvboy
Yes, but on the other hand, tencent is trying to get monopoly on the other side. This is west vs east, and «free» vs microtransactions/lootboxes. Im rooting on Microsoft, because the last thing i want, is tencent to inject more of their poison into the gaming industry. Tencent make good entertainment also, but their profit philosophy is not good for gamers/consumers.

So yeah.. Microsoft is now the western guard of gaming culture.. Sony should, like nintendo, focus on themself and how they can make a unique experience on their plattform, while Microsoft and tencent fight their Battle. Tbh, im not naiv… most likely are Sony playing this political Battle also, and seems like Sony stands with tencent.

Bring more games to people and conveniently more money into Phil‘s pocket

What? Lol, this is beyond hilarious. Nintendo doesn't care about COD.

@IronMan30 they cared enough to sign this deal with Microsoft.

@Itachi2099 probably more to stick it to Sony, than anything.

And at this stage, it really means nothing. MS doesn't own ActiBlizz and may not.

Counter deal from my fan butt - I oh so grumpily get by without Call of Duty and Microsoft continues to budget everything portable from Bethesda & Co for this and next Ninty generations. Oblivion, Rage, Prey, Dishonored games, New Order and Old Blood... maybe even TESO for next gen?😛

Gee, now we'll get even more squeakers on COD. Might as well just mute my headset now.

In all seriousness, I am happy that a multi-billion dollar series that has largely skipped Nintendo platforms in recent years is finally coming back.

Sony, at this point, is just being petty. It's just sad. At this rate, Sony will find themselves in the same position as Nintendo was ten years ago, with the Wii U flopping hard because no one wanted to work with them. And it will be well-deserved.

Sony has dominated the console market since launching the PlayStation (PS3 era notwithstanding), so maybe a good dose of humility is what they need to start playing ball with the other console manufacturer's and third-party developers, and start embracing consumer-oriented trends, like cross-platform gameplay and progression.

Great now we need Nintendo to release new more powerful Hardware to run it.

@NinjaNicky Nintendo could release do there own version. But it does not fit with Nintendo ethos of Mario.

Gobsmacked they have finally given in and allowed Call of Duty. I want to see Splinter cell, Rainbow Six and even Grand Theft Auto

I don't see how being exclusive to xbox is a good idea anyway. They would loose a lot of business and the cod franchise would slowly fade away to nothing.

@Baler yeah they were never going to make the multiplayer exclusive other IP's & the campaigns on the other hand are a different matter

Without Mr. Spencer I wouldn‘t have been able to play Ori, Cuphead and latest Crash Bandicoot games on Nintendo Switch.

Thanks a lot

Still doesn't make the Activision deal more ethical, friendly reminder.

bet they are all cloud versions

Entering a 10-year commitment for a property they don't yet own.

Hopefully this is for the Switch's successor, as otherwise this will be a very compromised port. I gave up on Call of Duty when Black Ops IIII came out and they abandoned campaign mode. I understand they've since gone back to it but I haven't missed it, and still got all the titles prior to that if I'm in the mood for that kind of thing.

@uptownsoul
It has happened already. Im rooting for a side. I would rather Microsoft shaping the path, instead of tencent.

@Slinkoy1 They won't need to try. The next CoD game is releasing end of 2024. There'll be a new console by then.

@Grumblevolcano

Sony must not buy Square Enix because of if Sony buys Square Enix, future video games will not come to Nintendo console

Don't really get the point of this. The vast majority of people who own a Switch will own at least one other console which they can already play Call of Duty on. They really don't need to be bringing watered down COD ports, or god forbid, cloud versions to Nintendo.

Sony looks increasingly ridiculous now. Claiming there's no way it can compete against CoD and monopoly etc. Microsoft going we offered you a deal and look it's on Steam and Nintendo (on paper) you have confused Playstation with the entire gaming market Sony. This is also the same "this is for the players "Sony that hates cross play, has a digital only model of the ps5 and an overcharging digital store, doesn't allow digital game codes to be sold elsewhere and always tells you buy Playstation for exclusives , anyone it buys is suddenly Playstation only but MS exclusives are bad. Increases the price of its consoles and pushes overpriced remakes of remakes. Tries tocharge for upgrading to ps5 versions whenever it can. Really lost alot of respect for Sony in last few years

It’s a smart and hilarious business move by MS to make the ABK buyout happen.

And yet many are missing the point that MS have said they’re committing to bringing COD to Nintendo consoles, not specifically the Switch.
So by the time the buyout happens, Nintendo may have already moved on to developing games for their next console and there very well may not be any of this “watered down ports” talk.

That's pretty cool, although I hope it doesn't mean cloud versions!

Wake me up when we get Madden.

Or at least an XFL game. I liked the second forward .

@kkslider5552000
Microsoft has kept up a pretty good track record at the games they've already given to Nintendo. Both of the Ori games ran so incredibly well despite being very graphically complex. They also had a special deal with Nintendo to make online multiplayer for Goldeneye 64 exclusive to the Switch. I think they would make huge investments on full blown ports, especially if they are devoting their cloud streaming for Game .

Just sign the deal. The way the news portrays things the world will have ended in 10 years so it won't matter anyway.

It is strange that there has not been some sort of Call of Duty on the Switch yet since it had been on Gamecube, Wii, and even WiiU

@johnvboy they aren’t pushing the deal just for COD though, they are getting several established IPs not to mention the insane ive income from candy crush. But honestly Sony’s so stingy with their exclusives, not to mention their never ending whining about this deal specifically regarding COD, I personally hope it goes through 😂 🤷‍♂️

@Draxa,

I do understand that, but COD is still a huge deal, that can move forward and improve, and we will not know Microsoft's full intentions with the franchise until the deal has gone through.

And as all games will be available on P.C, which is a much bigger market than all the consoles put together, the whole monopoly thing does not have much weight.

Do agree with you on wanting the deal to go through, as Sony have had their cake and been eating it for far too long, we need a bit of a shake up in the core space, this might just do it.

Yeah, no thanks, I have always been wary of those military shooters but COD is literally propaganda for the US military, not going to link it here but you can easily find the article if you search for it.

CoD: Legacy Edition incoming.

As long as it's not cloud versions. I would also not be against getting all of the older games ported even if it was just the campaigns and at a lower price. I get people don't like the games because the mass market likes them and as a result think they must hate them, but I tend to enjoy the campaigns and if they were added and a version of Warzone I can't see an issue with that too much.

@Bucky I think no version on the Switch has more to do with Activision not wanting to put the resources into making Switch ports as it has proven quite a feat for many getting games optimised for it.

@johnvboy for sure

propaganda games
propaganda games
propaganda games, f*** off

@locky-mavo if nintendos next console is another hybrid system then it will still be miles behind series X & ps5

I would of preferred Madden when it comes to a random big third party game that the Switch doesn’t have but I’ll take it. Doubt I’ll get every game either but at least get one and hopefully get to play zombie mode again.

@Type_Trubbish

"The vast majority of people who own a Switch will own at least one other console which they can already play Call of Duty on."

never end your baseless, sourceless conjecture in a preposition!

I would like to have a CoD "retro" pack for Switch. I don't need the latest greatest CoD game on Switch, but I would love to play CoD 2 (online) again. That's the game that got me into the franchise.

@-wc- Yeah idk what people are talking about with it being propaganda. People will just fabricate issues out of thin air

CoD going to Nintendo but not Sony would be the funniest thing in the world.

COD on Switch. Bring it to me baby!

As long is it's not a cloud version, I'm totally on board!

I can count the number of Activison IPs I care about on one hand - Crash, Spyro, Diablo

But cool news I guess

@Would_you_kindly,

There next system will be a hybrid for sure, the success of the Switch and it's insane software sales have pretty much guaranteed that, plus they are not bothered about power, never have been since the cube.

The only chance is that the replacement successor is a few years away, and Nvidia have a nice little custom chip for them, as mobile tech is getting better all the time, but I very much doubt it will be a conscious effort from Nintendo for more power, just the fact things would have moved on a lot in the mobile space since the Switch was launched, and even it's tech was pretty dated at the time as well.

@Hero-of-WiiU

who is making what out of thin air, you say?

" The player, as an embedded CIA operative overlooking a Middle Eastern desert highway, is told how “The Russians bombed it … killing the people trying to escape”. The scenario resembles an incident in the 1990-1 Gulf War, also called the “Highway of Death”, when the United States and its allies attacked a large retreating Iraqi convoy on Highway 80 that resulted in mass casualties, and later, accusations against the American military for undue force."

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/11/12/call-of-duty-anti-russian/

lol how on earth did you misinterpret my previous comment?

PROPAGANDA GAMES, F*CK OFF!

Or maybe Microsoft has some insider info on the next Switch, hence the commitment to Nintendo. One can only hope...

I would be happy for the COD classics to arrive and thrive on Switch. Modern Warfare & Black Ops. I played MW 1-3 and BO 1 & 2 a lot on the 360. I have great memories of the not only the online matches but the single player campaigns too.

@westman98 Sony REFUSED? They would have profited from the deal. Such idiots.

@Shredderlovespizza "Now, Nintendo s can enjoy heavily downgraded ports of COD, while paying the same high retail prices!" Weeee

Activision-Blizzard games I love: (PUBLISHER OR DEVELOPER)

• COD
• Heartstone
• Diablo
• Tony Hawk
• Crash Bandicoot / Crash Team Racing
• Sekiro: Shadows die twice (Publisher)
• King´s Quest
• Geometry Wars
• Blur
• Guitar Hero
• DJ Hero
• Golden Eye 007 Reloaded
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Does the Nintendo Switch have 3D audio? Because COD is a game made to be played with headphone 5.1 / 7.1 so you can hear the direction of the bullet.

COD is the best game ever created by the human race as far as audio engine is concerned. You can understand everything around you by sound. Is the Switch capable of doing this?

Then Nintendo has 10 years to make a Switch powerful enough to run CoD (but jokes aside —at least the older CoDs should have been here already since the inception of the Switch. They don’t need 10 years for that to happen)

@-wc- it seemed as though you were mocking others comments. I don’t see how it creates propaganda when it is based off an event ed rather than creating a new one.

@-wc- in fairness, you are right. COD is blatant US military propaganda. Still, this deal cracks me up.

Ha the Switch has been doing great without any Call of Duty games on it for a long time but having some is okay. Just don't be lazy with em. Games like Crysis, Borderlands, BioShock, Doom, Wolfenstein, and Metro looks and plays phenomenal on Switch.

@IronMan30 I can't talk about the newer ones, but Modern Warfare 2 (original) was actually anti-US military (The main villain of the game is a US General after all) and in Modern Warfare 1 the American squad gets nuked due to their "no man left behind" policy and failed repeatedly before that. I haven't played since MW3 though, so I don't know about the newer ones.

@Hero-of-WiiU

"I don’t see how it creates propaganda when it is based off an event ed rather than creating a new one."

then it's working 👍 enjoy your propaganda, no one is telling you you have to stop.

Finally. This imo is really what sony wanted to prevent.

@mr_somewhere

To be fair, the two main villains on MW2 are Americans. One is a general in the US Army and the other runs a PMC similar to Blackwater.

And throughout the campaign you’re playing as British SAS.

So I’d say it’s closer to American/British military propaganda.

@-wc-

That was MW2019.

And yes I thought it was dumb to try and push the “Highway of Death” on Russia. As an American that’s 100% on us. Hell my Dad served in combat in Desert Storm and wasn’t too far away from where that happened. One of his friends was in a unit that attacked the retreating convoy.

To be fair, though, the Iraqis were asking for it. They grouped their vehicles in single file lines. US forces knocked out the lead and trailing vehicles to create a traffic jam. Then the M1s, M60s, and some A-10s took care of the rest.

Was it excessive? Yeah. But it wasn’t a war crime. They were uniformed combatants. They knew the risks. If anything they should have blamed their commanding officers for the way the retreat was structured. Rule one of a withdrawal for armored forces is not to travel in single file lines. You scatter the forces and have them retreat in different directions.

If your forces get caught in a traffic jam they are done. The Iraqi armored officers should have known that since it’s been a reality of armored warfare since WWII. You knock out the lead and trailing vehicles to force the others to stop (and hopefully panic) and then you let loose on them from the flanks.

Lmao the shade thrown at Sony at the end. Jim Ryan probably busy writing another letter about how Sony will have NO GAMES without CoD or something

Also based on some of these comments here you can tell they think Switch [or prior Nintendo devices] never had FPS games before and Nintendo getting CoD “no one wants” lol

@Hero-of-WiiU

It’s propaganda in the sense that the Russians had nothing to do with the Highway of Death. That was all on the United States. My dad served in Desert Storm and wasn’t too far away from where that happened. He got to see the aftermath.

I'd rather a deal with Falcom and bring Ys 1 and the rest of the Ys series to Switch.

@Grumblevolcano This wasn’t a “you get CoD or JRPGS” decision. This was “you get nothing like before or you get CoD now”. This was a net gain for Nintendo regardless if your a fan of CoD or not.

@IronMan30 That makes no sense when Nintendo agreed to this and together had a contract with MS.

@uptownsoul watching people hate on Microsoft and still defend Sony pettiness…is amusing.

This is just leverage to ensure the deal with Microsoft goes through and to take away one of Sony's arguments. Both sides have argued in court before that Nintendo isn't a "real" competitor so this is odd.

@OrtadragoonX

thanks for the thoughtful reply! 👍 I enjoyed reading it.

@Arawn93

I agree. I’m a Sony fan but the way Sony has been acting over this case is utterly ridiculous.

Microsoft has offered a good deal. Take it and stop whining.

@OrtadragoonX Thanks for explaining that without having to be condescending like others.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika that's much better. Until we see what they have in store for us.

Not totally surprised by this. Microsoft wants to sell Xbox Game subscriptions. They don't care as much about selling Xbox consoles. The more platforms Game can run on, the more subscribers they will have. I think they'd be willing to do this with Sony as well, but Sony is obsessed with continuing the outdated concept of "console wars."

@locky-mavo i don't believe the next Nintendo console(Switch sucessor in this case) will be powerful enough to handle the Call of Duty franchise, Call of Duty on Nintendo consoles(is gonna be heavily dowgrade port of the current Call of Duty games at 30 fps or a cloud version)

@Arawn93 Nintendo shares got a significant rise after Microsoft anounced that Call of Duty is coming to Nintendo consoles.

I don't think Microsoft is doing this out of the goodness of their hearts to bring COD back to Nintendo consoles. I think on some level this deal is to minimize Sony's complaints to regulators about the acquisition. But, this also makes sense from a financial sense.

COD is very successful because it is on everything from PC to Xbox/PlayStation. The Xbox brand has been the 3rd place console by substantial margins since the Xbox 360 (depending on how you want to categorize the Wii U/Switch as far as generations). So bringing COD to Switch which currently is on track to overtake the PS4 in lifetime sales (the Switch is at 114 million units the PS4 is at 118 million) would be very beneficial for Microsoft and Nintendo.

Microsoft has a history of not making everything exclusive after acquiring the studio. Minecraft is the most notable and COD is about as big if not bigger than Minecraft. It just makes more sense to use COD to get revenue from all platforms than just isolate it to Xbox/PC and lose out of potentially hundreds of millions of eyes and wallets.

@Giancarlothomaz

Why? Nintendo’s got a lot of APU chipsets to choose from in regards to nVidia if they are going to remain partners. Including new lines that have RTX 3000 features like DLSS 2.0 with compute power roughly equal to the Xbox One while drawing less than 16 watts.

Or hell they could go crazy and use one of Apple’s APUs; I’m sure they’d be willing to license the design of their current AX chips. Even the somewhat aging A13 series design would be a MASSIVE improvement over the Switch’s limited Tegra chipset.

Plus all of the options are more than powerful enough to emulate the Tegra X1 so they could easily maintain backwards compatibility.

@OrtadragoonX simply because Nintendo focus on hardware inovation not on pure techninal/graphical power like Sony/Microsoft do, Nintendo did it eailer until the Game Cube era, but no more, so i don't expect the Switch sucessor to be a powerful console(problaby weaker then a base PS4.

@Giancarlothomaz

Being around the Xbox One would put in league with the Steamdeck. Which means it would get modern ports that aren’t hobbled.

And I really hope Nintendo does a GameCube move this time around. Because the Switch is what Nintendo needed. And they need to build on it. The Wii was a fad and the Wii U flopped super hard.

They’ve finally found the magic niche they’ve needed. To throw it away for the sake of “innovation” would be a step backwards. Not forwards. Build on the Switch. Make it roughly equivalent to the PS4 power wise because we have the the mobile APUs available now to do that.

Could not care less personally. Nintendo's games are perfectly fine for me.

Genius move by Microsoft to push the acquisition through. Makes Sony look like the "anti competitive" ones (which they are imo) if they continue to try to oppose the acquisition. Maybe now Sony will play ball and quit throwing a fit over CoD.

Anyways, the next CoD isn't scheduled to be released until Holiday 2024, as they're skipping 2023. The Switch 2 will no doubt be released by then, so that's what they'll be on. Maybe they release CoD Mobile on the current Switch in the meantime.

Cloud is likely. The fact none of their other studios that made Switch ports or port studios that are known for Switch ports put COD on there surprises me. I wonder with the 1 year gap what they do with COD on Switch if it's older releases or when the 2024 entry happens. Their other studios must have been so busy with Warzone or multiplayer content even though they have Toys for Bob (Crash 4 and ports/Spyro and ports as well as COD side stuff, besides Vicarious doing Crash, Tony Hawk 1+2 and Diablo 2), Raven, Highmoon, Sledgehammer, Treyarch and Infinity Ward.

Treyarch doing what they could with Wii ports even though the PS2 World at War was dumb (Rebellion did what they could but still) if they had the Wii version as similar power wise why not and I always wondered if they were actually cutdown but oh well. It's always something I laugh at with the Wii versions having cut content. If the levels were too intensive with detail or enemies or otherwise culling to not be worth it sure but both were 4.7 size disks the Wii/360 and the 360 having more powerful hardware they can't tell me it was due to size and more power reasons. Also no PSP versions, only the one like COD3 'Road to Victory' and DS unique ones by NSpace that did Geist.

The back and forth of advertising/DLCs/skins and so on makes sense they want it that badly but Sony had WRC on PS2 with Evolution Studios from 2001 to 2005 (before MotorStorm/DriveClub) then the rebooting of WRC1 in 2010s to today with Generations. They had MBL for years before MBL made them go multiplatform.

They had COD ads/DLC and so on for most of PS4 gen besides the brief Xbox One and prior 360 era ads/DLCs.

Sony gets the Japanese game exclusivity over Nintendo for many big AAA IPs whether they ask for it or what the devs need the power for. Otherwise the obvious PS4 gen exclusive third party deals. They get the live services. They have the big cinematic games people buy a console for or keep buying their other series because unlike their variety of the past that only Nintendo offers (Xbox there is but it's not the same level of appeal people care about for many of them) they make them so similar people pick them up most pick up an Xbox for the main 3 (Halo, Gears and Forza or 1 of the 3 in my case only Forza Motorsport not Horizon), rarely another IP they have (they may appeal but not as much. Other than FM I only care about Sunset Overdrive, ReCore and Rare Replay on my Xbox One I don't need a second third party console like my PS4 is and another blu-ray player even if the UI for dvd/blu-ray I find better than all PS tv/movie playback UIs) and otherwise Game. Sony can't keep having too much cake.

This is Phil Spencer's way of giving Sony the middle finger.

I mean....maybe? Switch pro??

This seems like something they would announce at the Game Awards by just waiting one day.

@Giancarlothomaz

Well that’s just it, you don’t know what Nintendo’s next console will be.

@locky-mavo I know but Nintendo still refuses to lower the price of its current console when it makes a profit on it & it's very outdated tech wise can you really see them making a console with specs that are comparable with current gen consoles & taking a loss on it ?

@Would_you_kindly I really can't see them selling a console at a loss in the hope they'll make it back, just to appease a very tiny fraction of their base, when they can make profits straight out of the gate. Selling things at a loss is a very dangerous business model if your product doesn't take off.

@WiltonRoots I know I don't think they would either that's why I don't think nintendos next console will have comparable specs to Xbox series & ps5 unless the price is high

@Would_you_kindly One of those things, the graphics arms race is not a very sustainable model. Just look how long it takes for games to come out now and how many third parties have gone bust trying to keep up. For every Xbox and PS5 they sell, they're losing money. Nintendo could no doubt produce a console with similar specs but who's going to pay £500+ for it apart from a few die hard fans? I'd be shocked if the Steam Deck even does Wii U numbers.