The famous Call of Duty game will be available on Nintendo devices, in the event of an acquisition deal Microsoft On Activision Blizzard.
Microsoft, which produces Xbox video game consoles, announced last January its acquisition of the American Activision Blizzard for a record amount of $69 billion, but this project is still under the watch of the authorities in charge of regulating competition in the world. United States and Europe.
Regulators fear that the acquisition might allow Microsoft to stop making Activision Blizzard games, including “World of Warcraft” and “Candy Crush,” available on competitors’ platforms.
“Microsoft wants to provide more games to a larger segment of people, whatever way they choose to play,” Phil Spencer, head of the gaming division at the American giant, said in a tweet on Wednesday.
He added, “Microsoft is committed to providing Call of Duty on Nintendo devices for ten years following its acquisition of Activision Blizzard,” noting that new copies of “Call of Duty” will also remain available through the Steam platform for video games on computers.
Serkan Toto, of Mantan Games, an analytics company in Tokyo, told AFP that this announcement “is clearly a publicity stunt, due to its timing.”
The Federal Trade Commission should consider Thursday the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, according to several media outlets. As for the European Commission, it launched an investigation in early November dealing with this deal, while the competition authorities in the United Kingdom announced, in September, the launch of a comprehensive investigation.
(AFP)