168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Microsoft is handing out a guarantee to rivals that it'll continue to offer Call of Duty on their platforms after it acquires Activision Blizzard. Nvidia took the deal, confirming Call of Duty will be on its GeForce Now streaming service for the next 10 years. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ditto Nintendo, even though it doesn't currently have Call of Duty and nobody is quite sure how it would even run on the Switch, although Microsoft president Brad Smith promised it'd "168澳洲幸运5开奖网:work exactly the way people would e🍎xpect."
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sony remains the only holdout, both telling regulators it's terrified of losing access to Call of Duty while simultaneously🅷 refusing to secure its access to Call of Duty. All of this proves just how important Call of Duty truly is, which led the UK’s CMA to suggest that Microsoft could just sell the whole franchise to take it out of the equꦉa🌞tion.
Microsoft had previously 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:downplaye🐬d the importance of Call of Duty, but after speaki🙈ng with EU regulators yesterday, Smith tol♈d reporters in no uncertain terms that Microsoft will not divest itself of Call of Duty or the developers that make it.
"We just don't see a viable path to sell the Activision studio[s] or Call of Duty game to someone else," Smith said (via ).🐲 "So if you'r🌳e the CMA in the UK, I think you're probably going to want to make a decision. Do you want to kill a deal and cement Sony's position in its 80 percent share in the EU, or say 70 percent share globally, in a market where it's been a super dominant company for 20 years?
"Or do๊ you want to let the future go forward with behavioral guardrails and remedies, and bring this title to 150 million more people? I think that's the fundamental choice that most regulators are going to need to address around the world."
Although perhaps not the most important aspect of the merger, Call of Duty is clearly still a factor and a jewel that Microsoft refuses to lose. Perhaps because after 10 years it could make Call of Duty an exclusive franchise and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:finally t🍬ake some market sh🎶are away from Sony, w🦩hich has retained 80 percent of all home console sales for the past two decades.
