Xbox has signed yet another ten-year deal, the third of its kind this year alone. This deal pledges to bring 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Call of Duty and other 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Activision Blizzard-owned games to the cloud gaming service Boosteroid, which has around four million users. This coincides with 16🃏8澳洲幸🦋运5开奖网:similar deals reached with Nvidia and Nintendo, making it clear that Call of Duty won't go Xbox exclusive for a🙈t least a decade should its Activision Bl꧟izzard deal go through.
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This deal with Boosteroid comes, of course, as Sony 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:tells regulators that Microsoft's acquisition of ಞActivision Blizzard would be harmful to the industry and consumers. Microsoft is in the process of countering this with legally binding pledges to keep Call of Duty on other consoles and services, preventing it from making the biggest game series included in the deal exclusive to Xbox.
"If the only argument is that Microsoft is going to withhold Call of Duty from other platforms, and we’ve now entered into contracts that are going to bring this to many more devices and many more platforms, that is a pretty hard case to make to a court," s꧙ays Brad Smith, referring to So🎃ny's opposition to its acquisition.
“The reason we want to buy Activision Blizzard is to round out our titles to have a fuller library, especially to have more m🌃obile tiꦑtles where we don’t have a strong presence."
That last comment seems to be an attempt to down🐈play Call of Duty's significance in the deal, instead focusing on the fact that Microsoft would also be acquiring Candy 𒅌Crush publisher, King.
While many of us may be unfamiliar with Boosteroid as a service and are likely to be unaffected by this deal, it's what the plan represents that makes it so significant. It shows that Microsoft is willing to cut deals with rivals to get the acquisition over the line, and is in quite a hurry to do so. It remains to be seen if it can reach a deal with Sony, but considering the latter is worried that 𒀰PlayStation would be handed dodgy Call of Duty ports, that seems unlikely.
