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Microsoft President Brad Smith: Not only will COD will continue to be on Playstation, we'd like to bring it to Nintendo devices
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yurinka
Member
Several AAA teams release their games on Switch via sttreaming, like the recentt Kingdom Hearts collection that they could even have ported. MS could do the same to put any future AAA game there.
Or well, many people ported mobile games to Switch. They would port Call of Duty Mobile for Switch. Or to ask some random 2nd tier team to make an exclusive Switch game, or to port an old CoD game.
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ChiefDada
Gold Member
Agree with almost everything you're saying here. That Candy Crush money is no joke and a huge get for Microsoft. It's a shame people kept focusing on CoD when CC should've been the main topic of conversation surrounding the transaction.
cash_longfellow
Member
Do it, throw all the pettiness at them you can muster, they asked for it
HoofHearted
Member
I get it - but it is what it is.
Consolidation will continue to happen and each company will ultimately choose to do what they wish to do with their newly acquired game companies / IP in their own best interests.
What MS (or Sony, or Nintendo... ) say today may/can/will eventually change at some point based on market conditions and impact to their bottom line.
Taking something said by an executive at face value today day will change in the future. That's why everything they say is so vague - because nothing is ever written in stone and subject to change at a moment's notice.
Companies have to adapt in near real-time nowadays and often say things in the public forum to calm and allay fears in order to complete the task at hand. Read what you will into these comments - but ultimately, I'm willing to bet there are giant asterisks next to each comment made.
Right now it appears that CoD will be targeted multi-platform - but at what cost to the end-user? EVERYTHING that MS is doing currently is targeted towards a single purpose... to grow their platform.
KaiserBecks
Member
It‘s literally directly from the mouth of a lawyer. He reports to Nadella, the CEO. Just like Phil Spencer.
GigaBowser
The bear of bad news
Brad Smith - Stories
As Microsoft’s vice chair and president, Brad Smith is responsible for spearheading the company’s work and representing it publicly on a wide variety of critical issues involving the intersection of technology and society, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, privacy, environmental...
news.microsoft.com
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
Well to be fair, he is a lawyer.
R3claimer117
Member
Lol I wonder how many people will listen to this guy say they want to keep all titles available “today” on the the platforms they exist on and continue to support them to equal all other mainline future COD, over watch and Warcraft future titles will also be on other platforms. Lol these forums will be interesting to watch after this deal closes and things start to become reality.
yurinka
Member
No, because Sony and Nintendo won't allow them to put GP on PS or Switch.
He talks about selling games on PS and Switch, because it's what it makes sense and what it would give them money.
Sales on PS and Switch could help to reduce/compensate the loses that AAA games would have by being given away almost for free day one on PC and Xbox via GP.
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What are you on about? You think Nintendo would never release a successor to the Switch?
He said ‘Nintendo’. Not Switch.
Yoboman
Member
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
The fantasies keyboard warriors come up with. MS is buying ActiBliz, not the reverse.
DJ12
Member
You put your left arm in
Your left arm out
In, out, in, out
You shake it all about
You do the hokey copey
And you turn around
That's what it's all about
Woah, the hokey copey
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Woah, the hokey copey
Knees bent
Arms stretched
Ra-ra-ra
Yoboman
Member
Well observed
jigglet
Banned
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If cloud streaming, its not as difficult. It's just user interface changes.
RoboFu
One of the green rats
It’s not as much about money as it is brand building. MS game studios logo will be all over these games.
His (Brad Smith) book is quite interesting at least for me.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Warzone and next years cod is next Gen only. Good luck bringing that over to the switch. There is a reason why ghosts was the last cod on Nintendo consoles.
DJ12
Member
Come on now.
A next gen game these days is just a previous gen game with faster loading times, and higher resolution and details.
Easy to port to the switch, use 720p and set all PC options to low.
I also doubt very much next years CoD will be next gen only. Unless of course the chip shortage suddenly ends and 100 million more PS5s and series X's are out in the wild.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Those are cross gen games. Not next Gen.
And the next warzone is already confirmed to e next Gen only releasing next year. If their f2p game is next Gen, they paid will definitely be next Gen only.
DJ12
Member
You know what was also confirmed as next gen only
All PS5 games, such as Horizon Forbidden West and GT7. We live is different times, and cross gen is so easy to do. No one is going to leave money on the table for the sake of changing some options.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
When we look back on this in a year or two once some big player like Amazon, apple or google really makes a step into the acquisition’s or console space we will all realise that Sony and MS we’re trying to ensure they were holding the door for as long as possible.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Sigh. Can’t have a normal conversation with people on this board anymore.
tommib
Member
You’ve missed the threads about PlayStation exclusives getting out of the PS5.
shubik
Member
Who would have thought that this would be the case on a gaming forum...
GHG
Member
KaiserBecks
Member
Again: It‘s literally directly from the mouth of a lawyer. He reports to Nadella, the CEO. Just like Phil Spencer.Brad Smith - Stories
As Microsoft’s vice chair and president, Brad Smith is responsible for spearheading the company’s work and representing it publicly on a wide variety of critical issues involving the intersection of technology and society, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, privacy, environmental...
LeftThumbstick
Member
That’s what games have always been, the same code, just better graphics, gameplay and frame rates.
The only difference now is that graphics have kind of hit a plateu as well with animation advancements. They’ve gotten so good at it that unless there is some mind blowing technological jump, we won’t see any massive changes in these departments, just slightly improved and refined over the coming years.
Of course the code has changed too not as much as people would think. The same kind of techniques used to code a game 10+ years ago are still being used today.
Coulomb_Barrier
Member
Microsoft: we're bringing COD and all Activision Blizzard games, as well as The Elder Scrolls and Fallout to PS5 and Switch now and for the rest of the generation.
Fanboy: No they won't, they're lying (I don't want you to be able to play those games).
Fanboy: No they won't, they're lying (I don't want you to be able to play those games).
LeftThumbstick
Member
Edgelord79
Gold Member
Sigh... Will this ever end?
SteadyEvo
Member
That wouldn’t be a bad thing. Favorite and last one I enjoyed. Loved it on wiiu
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
Pretty funny that understanding official messaging can be interpreted as fanboyism but not your posts using them to make your own interpretations.
This guy thinks new IPs will be multiplat.
ZehDon
Member
I'm on about exactly what I wrote?
Let's presume Microsoft elects not to bring COD to the Nintendo Switch, but it does bring it to the "Switch 2". What do we think that the hardware target for the Switch 2 might be? What are the chances of it being comparable to the PlayStation 5? I'd wager that's pretty slim - Nintendo has given up chasing cutting edge hardware. A "Switch 2" would likely still be behind the PS4 or Xbone's specs. Do you think a next-gen only Call of Duty is going to get a native version for the "Switch 2"? Once again, I think the chances are pretty slim. And that leaves streaming - a pretty sub-optimal way to experience these games.
Thirty7ven
Banned
Wild how a lot of Xbox fans are in denial over this, getting a bit crazy. Starting to look like a lot of people put all their energy believing this was the moment Xbox would “destroy” PlayStation, and they don’t want to believe in what’s actually happening.
It’s getting a bit uncomfortable, some of you need to settle down. There’s potentially something much bigger going on the industry.
It’s getting a bit uncomfortable, some of you need to settle down. There’s potentially something much bigger going on the industry.
Bernd Lauert
Banned
You should likely stop dropping that quote. Sony is only 17% of AB revenue. And I assume a large chunk of that is from Warzone.
Thirty7ven
Banned
Are you alright Lauert? I’ve been worried about you since this news hit. Don’t stop believing, the journey is about the friends we make along the way, never forget that.