Sorry Microsoft, UK government's seen 'No evidence' the Nintendo Switch can run Call of Duty
techradar.comA report from the UK government’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has concluded that the Nintendo Switch is not “technically capable” of running Call of Duty.
The CMA claimed that the Nintendo Switch cannot run Call of Duty “with a similar quality of gameplay as Xbox or PlayStation” in a recent report(opens in new tab) aiming to assess the ramifications of Microsoft’s anticipated acquisition of Activision Blizzard, as well as the tenability of the recent historic deal between Microsoft and Nintendo where the former pledged to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo consoles.
The CMA is a UK government department which seeks to promote competitive markets in a manner analogous to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the United States. Their analysis of the viability of Call of Duty on Nintendo hardware comes as a result of the recent legal agreement between Microsoft and Nintendo which commits to “bring[ing] Call of Duty to Nintendo Players — the same day as Xbox, with full feature and content parity.”
This deal is a significant part of Microsoft’s efforts to allay concerns raised by the FTC that their acquisition of Activision Blizzard would breach United States anti-trust laws by preventing Nintendo and PlayStation from competing in the video games market by withholding access to the wildly popular Call of Duty franchise.
Though this deal is definitely a step towards building a case in the impending FTC lawsuit, the CMS’s findings suggest that bringing Call of Duty to Nintendo consoles may simply be impossible from a hardware standpoint. Of course the release of a more powerful Nintendo Switch 2 could change this, but, as it stands, it looks like Nintendo may simply lack the hardware to take advantage of its deal with
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