Microsoft: Call Of Duty Needs To Run Well On All Consoles – Including Nintendo Switch

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Microsoft CEO Brad Smith has made a short statement that seeks to address some doubts fans may have had about the deal his company just made with Nintendo.

Yesterday, Brad revealed that Microsoft signed a ten year deal with Nintendo, to bring Call of Duty games to their platforms to the next ten years. This deal did not extend to other Microsoft owned games. However, it served as the latest sign of an ongoing relationship that the two companies have had, since Microsoft purchased Nintendo’s former development partner, Rare.

Today, in a press conference in Brussels following a closed hearing with the EU regulators, Brad made this statement about Call of Duty going multiplatform, as covered by Christopher Dring of Games Industry Biz:

“Smith is talking about multi-platform gaming, and the fact Call of Duty needs to run well on all consoles, including Nintendo Switch.”

Nintendo’s modern relationship with Microsoft is best traced back to 2015, when they published Minecraft to Nintendo’s Wii U and New Nintendo 3DS platforms. In the past few years, Microsoft has also published Cuphead, Ori and the Blind Forest, and New Super Lucky’s Tale to the Switch. In turn, Nintendo and Microsoft seem to have a mutual agreement when it comes to Rare games. Although this deal isn’t publicly known, we have seen some interesting game releases because of it.

 For example, in the Wii U Virtual Console rerelease of Donkey Kong 64 in 2015, Jetpac, a British microcomputer game made by Rare when they were still called Ultimate Play The Game, was included as part of the game. Players needed to play Jetpac to finish Donkey Kong 64. In turn, Rare Replay includes many Nintendo 64 versions of Rare’s own games. Rare Replayand the games on it are not