At a press conference in Brussels, Microsoft announced that it has signed a 10-year license deal with Nvidia to stream its Xbox PC games on GeForce Now (opens in new tab). If the $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard goes ahead, Xbox will also bring Activision Blizzard games to Nvidia’s cloud gaming service.
The news comes a day after Microsoft signed a 10-year deal with Nintendo to bring the future Xbox games like Call of Duty to Nintendo (opens in new tab) once the deal with Activision Blizzard closes. Microsoft had offered Sony the same deal that Sony had reportedly turned down. Activision’s Chief Communications Officer shared his thoughts on Sony’s move with a memes (opens in new tab) posted on Twitter.
Accordingly Reuters (opens in new tab), Microsoft President Brad Smith said he was more confident the acquisition would move forward after the announcement of both deals. blacksmith tweeted (opens in new tab)“With today’s agreements with Nvidia and Nintendo, we will bring Call of Duty to 150 million new devices. That will serve consumers AND encourage competition.”
These deals are an attempt by Microsoft to allay regulators’ concerns that the Activision Blizzard acquisition could take games like Call of Duty off competitors’ platforms and make them exclusive to Xbox. Microsoft has promised the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) that Call of Duty will remain available on other platforms after the acquisition.
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Nvidia has now spoken out in favor of the takeover press release (opens in new tab) that the new deal “gives gamers more choice and addresses Nvidia’s concerns about Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.”
After the announcement, Xbox boss Phil Spencer tweeted (opens in new tab)“We’re committed to making more games accessible to more people — however they choose to play.” Nvidia says Call of Duty won’t be available on GeForce Now until the Activision deal is finalized, but Microsoft’s first -Party games are immediately covered by the new 10-year agreement.
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