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[GigaBowser]

Switch gets no AAA third party support anyway now they gets a 10 year deal for COD

How does this affect Nintendos in the longs run my friends?

 

[NickFire]

Zero. Zilch. Nada.

 

[TexMex]

It doesn’t

 

[jshackles]

 

[BennyBlanco]

I bet CoD on the switch successor will do good numbers. That is gonna be the most hype console launch ever and will be a total shitshow of scalpers and wario64 notifications.

 

[hybrid_birth]

I worked at the Nintendo office's as a plumber and these were posted right above the urinals. I don't know why but they pay plumbers surprisingly well there.

 

[The Pleasure]

I worked at the Nintendo office's as a plumber and these were posted right above the urinals. I don't know why but they pay plumbers surprisingly well there.

Did you have to wear ties?

 

[Dynasty8]

Did you have to wear ties?

No but a red or green hat is mandatory.

 

[The Pleasure]

No but a red or green hat is mandatory.

Does the green hat make you taller and float in the air?

 

[Unknown?]

Switch gets no AAA third party support anyway now they gets a 10 year deal for COD

How does this affect Nintendos in the longs run my friends?

They aren't getting COD, that was just to get the deal pushed through.

 

[Lasha]

Nintendo could benefit if it releases a remotely powerful switch2 with guaranteed COD support. Otherwise the deal is not a big deal for the company.

 

[GigaBowser]

They aren't getting COD, that was just to get the deal pushed through.

Microsoft signs binding Call of Duty deal with Nintendo ahead of EU Activision hearing

Amidst increasing regulatory pushback against the deal.

www.theverge.com

 

[newtypepilot]

Nothing. Nintendo's biggest appeal is their first party titles. You don't buy a Switch to play CoD. And gaming doesn't revolve around CoD.

 

[Ecotic]

If Sony decides they need do an acquisition like Square-Enix or Capcom then it can affect Nintendo. I've seen Nintendo Directs sometimes that seemed to be mostly Square-Enix's AA lineup.

I'd suggest Nintendo needs to suspend dividend payments and balloon their cash reserves so they can defend themselves strategically if Sony goes that route. Though I've long felt Nintendo needed to do that anyway since they're a company that can go from feast (Wii) to famine (Wii U), and extra cash reserves can see them through to better times.

Sometimes just a statement from a company that they'd put in a competing offer is enough to persuade the competition to go another route, since it would mean the premium over market value to acquire a company wouldn't be worth it anymore.

 

[Banjo64]

No more games like Spyro and Crash trilogies, Crash 4, CTR, THPS1&2.

Shitty gimped port of CoD that runs as well as Apex Legends does on Switch.

 

[GigaBowser]

If Sony decides they need do an acquisition like Square-Enix or Capcom then it can affect Nintendo. I've seen Nintendo Directs sometimes that seemed to be mostly Square-Enix's AA lineup.

I'd suggest Nintendo needs to suspend dividend payments and balloon their cash reserves so they can defend themselves strategically if Sony goes that route. Though I've long felt Nintendo needed to do that anyway since they're a company that can go from feast (Wii) to famine (Wii U), and extra cash reserves can see them through to better times.

Sometimes just a statement from a company that they'd put in a competing offer is enough to persuade the competition to go another route, since it would mean the premium over market value to acquire a company wouldn't be worth it anymore.

Capcom only gives Switch old games cepts for MonHun which is multiplats Square gives them niches rpgs likes octopath its not a big difference my friends but lets hooope nobody buys Capcom that will ruin the greatest third parties of all times

 

[RoboFu]

Well if MS pledges games for switch/2 then they come out better.

 

[Lasha]

If Sony decides they need do an acquisition like Square-Enix or Capcom then it can affect Nintendo. I've seen Nintendo Directs sometimes that seemed to be mostly Square-Enix's AA lineup.

I'd suggest Nintendo needs to suspend dividend payments and balloon their cash reserves so they can defend themselves strategically if Sony goes that route. Though I've long felt Nintendo needed to do that anyway since they're a company that can go from feast (Wii) to famine (Wii U), and extra cash reserves can see them through to better times.

Sometimes just a statement from a company that they'd put in a competing offer is enough to persuade the competition to go another route, since it would mean the premium over market value to acquire a company wouldn't be worth it anymore.

Nintendo has around the same amount of cash on hand as the entirety of Sony. Money isn't an issue. Nintendo's focus on first party development and its own IP hold back major acquisitions

 

[Alebrije]

Nintendo ecosystem does not needs Activisions games to grow...

 

[hybrid_birth]

Does the green hat make you taller and float in the air?

No but there's a ghost hat that turns you into whatever you throw at it.

I turned myself into a chair so hot Asian chicks can sit on me.

 

[MagnesD3]

Hoping it doesn't

 

[Happosai]

Nintendon't tell me what to do. =p

 

[Zannegan]

I mean, it'll look nice in the sizzle real and might convince a few to pick Switch 2 up for portable CoD, but I doubt there will be an appreciable impact short term. I think it's more a boon to Nintendo players than to Nintendo themselves. Can't hurt though.

 

[Woopah]

They'll get higher software sales and a cut of every COD game sold on Switch.

 

[Kataploom]

Barely something imo... The problem with AAA third parties and Nintendo is not the hardware performance, it's the audience, that's why you'll keep seeing JRPGs and Indies sell more on Nintendo than AAA even when they start releasing day one too.

Indies, JRPGs and other gameplay heave games are more in line with Nintendo audience tastes so COD or not, they could sell well but will still be behind PS/Xbox despite Switch or next Switch being the best selling console ever when they release them.

That said, COD and any online game is very gameplay focused so maybe there's a chance it shines there too.

 

[DenchDeckard]

The amount of people on this forum who are convinced Microsoft signed binding contracts to just get a deal through....

Wow, COD will be on Nintendo next platform. There's no way MS goes back on this stuff.

One thing Phil Spencer got right was the fact that gamers are psychopaths and going back on something that has been said publicly so many times would kill the brand.

He's right. MS will stick to their agreements and cod will come to all the platforms they've said it will.

 

[Fabieter]

They aren't getting COD, that was just to get the deal pushed through.

They will, a shitty cloud version at least

 

[SHA]

How does Nintendo affects Activision deal? Parity or making an enhanced mobile version of the same game.

 

[Kikorin]

Since CoD started to exist, it has been on every Nintendo console ever released (even Wii U), so the series skipping Switch was the exception. If the next Nintendo console will have CoD will just be the norm, nothing surprising honestly.

 

[Soodanim]

According to all those internal documents MS doesn't consider Nintendo part of the console race (they're not really wrong), so that will be in Nintendo's and Activision's favour.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

gonna be honest I don't see Diablo 4 being playable on the thing.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

100 million extra sales for Switch in a couple of years.

 

[gooner4life_uk]

ActiBlizz games are irrelevant to Nintendo, it will harm Sony in the long term, but Nintendo won't feel any impact.

 

[lh032]

0.

no im serious.

Majority of people is not going to play COD on switch, thats stupid.
thats like playing apex on switch

 

[Negotiator101]

Switch gets no AAA third party support anyway now they gets a 10 year deal for COD

How does this affect Nintendos in the longs run my friends?

Well they presumably get COD which is pretty big, anyway the deal hasn't gone through yet something may well stop it again?

 

[TDiddyLive]

No more games like Spyro and Crash trilogies, Crash 4, CTR, THPS1&2.

Shitty gimped port of CoD that runs as well as Apex Legends does on Switch.

Microsoft has historically been friendly with Nintendo. Just look at the Minecraft/Super Mario collaboration or Minecraft characters and Banjo & Kazooie in Smash Bros. The games you listed aren’t exactly system sellers so no reason for them not to release those types of games on Nintendo platforms.

 

[cireza]

Nintendo got COD on Wii and Wii U. I don't think Nintendo fans cared a lot for these games.