UK Government Has Seen No Evidence That Nintendo Consoles Can Run Call Of Duty Games Similar To PlayStation And Xbox
The United Kingdom's Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) is attempting to block Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, a decision that Microsoft is now appealing. The decision to block the deal came down primarily to concerns about the cloud gaming market. But as part of the CMA's disclosures, the organization discussed the console, space, too. In one of its findings, the CMA said it has seen no evidence that a Nintendo platform would be technically capable of running a Call of Duty game similar to those offered on PlayStation and Xbox at this time.
«Nintendo does not currently offer CoD, and we have seen no evidence to suggest that its consoles would be technically capable of running a version of CoD that is similar to those in Xbox and PlayStation in terms of quality of gameplay and content,» the CMA said.
The CMA made this disclosure seemingly in response to Microsoft's highly publicized 10-year deal with Nintendo to bring Call of Duty games to Nintendo platforms should its acquisition of Activision Blizzard go through. Microsoft was seemingly trying to show regulators that it would not make Call of Duty exclusive to Xbox but instead bring it to more platforms and people. The CMA went on to agree with Microsoft's assertion that it would not make Call of Duty exclusive to Xbox if the deal went through because doing so would be a terrible business decision.
In any event, as part of that announcement, Microsoft said it could develop and publish future versions of Call of Duty games for Nintendo platforms that would run natively. These games would be released on the same day as Xbox and have feature and content parity across all versions.
The CMA said Xbox and PlayStation are understood to be closer
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