Xbox & Nintendo Sign 10-Year Deal for Call of Duty

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has not been on a Nintendo system in about a decade, but that’s about to change. Xbox announced that it signed a deal with Nintendo to bring the shooter series to Nintendo’s systems for the next 10 years.

We’ve now signed a binding 10-year contract to bring Xbox games to Nintendo’s gamers. This is just part of our commitment to bring Xbox games and Activision titles like Call of Duty to more players on more platforms. pic.twitter.com/JmO0hzw1BO

Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith tweeted out the “binding” deal, saying that those on Nintendo’s hardware would receive games day and date as other systems with “full feature and content parity.” Smith said “Xbox games” in a general fashion, but it seems, at this moment, that it is focused specifically on. However, Microsoft Studios did publish on Switch in 2019, so at least there’s some precedent for Xbox games to appear on Nintendo consoles. has also not appeared on Nintendo systems since 2013’s .

This deal follows up on what Head of Xbox Phil Spencer tweeted out in December 2022. He noted that Xbox had entered into an agreement to bring Activision’s marquee shooter to the Switch for 10 years. Spencer also followed that up by saying that Microsoft was committed to bringing to Steam, although Valve President Gabe Newell told Kotaku that he didn’t need the deal because he trusts Microsoft’s intentions to put the game on many platforms as possible. Call of Duty only recently returned to Steam with 2022’s after not gracing the PC storefront since 2017’s .

Smith said in December 2022 that Microsoft had offered the same 10-year deal to Sony, but it refused. Sony has been arguing against Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, as it sees the deal could be harmful