Microsoft President Brad Smith has confirmed that Nintendo and Microsoft have reached a 10-year deal in which they not only commit to bringing the Call of Duty franchise to the Nintendo Switch, but also agree to do so on the same day and with the same playable content on all consoles under equal conditions and avoid favouritism.

This equality at launch is a very important nuance, especially since then would remove the privilege Sony has He has been with the Call of Duty franchise for a long time and this has allowed him to have certain content available on his console first, causing gamers who are devoted to the franchise to end up almost blindly leaning towards buying a PlayStation.

Yes, Sony is the one who complained the most about the advantage Microsoft would get from buying Activision Blizzard, but they also took a hypocritical stance in their arguments because she was the first to enjoy favorable treatment with the Call of Duty franchise. It also worked to portray itself as a weak point and undervalue Nintendo when in reality the PlayStation 4 sold more than twice as much as the Xbox One and the Nintendo Switch outsold the PlayStation 4.

This distorted vision of reality that Sony has provided to prevent the Redmond giant from buying Activision Blizzard by all means has worked because some regulators are preventing the purchase, although it’s partly because those same authorities don’t really know the market they’re operating in. regulate a believes that the console’s success is limited to Call of Duty only.

For dispel spirits which helped create Sony in this sense and which raised doubts about the possible harm to competition that the purchase of Activision Blizzard could cause, Nintendo and Microsoft signed this agreement, and it is a very important step because it represents the return of Call of Duty to the Nintendo console, which is equivalent to giving consumers more choice and improves the competitiveness of the Nintendo Switch.

I know that a ten year commitment is a finite amount of time, but prior to this commitment, the possibility of Call of Duty coming to Nintendo Switch was virtually nil. On the other hand, it is also necessary to remember that Microsoft is committed to continuing to bring the franchise to PlayStation, so any fear spread by Sony in this regard lacks any real basis, not even in the long run.