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UPDATE:
Brad Smith, Microsoft's president, has tweeted out about the confusion regarding the titles which will be shared on Nintendo consoles, clarifying that it's only Call of Duty and not other Xbox titles like his original tweet made it believe:

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Original post:
Microsoft's president, Brad Smith, has announced that Microsoft signed off a 10-year agreement to bring Xbox titles to Nintendo consoles, like the Call of Duty franchise, which was announced some months ago as well. With this deal, Microsoft aims to bring content and feature parity to all of the titles released across both Xbox and Nintendo, which means the same game on either console will have the same content.

Nintendo users might recall back in the Wii era that games of the Call of Duty franchise on their console had a huge amount of content absent from their version, primarily all of the DLC for each and every COD game release on the Wii, some maps being absent and smaller maps/online matches. This even extended to some of the WiiU titles as well when it comes to missing DLC that the other main releases in Xbox and PlayStation had throughout their lifespan.

With this, It's great news for Nintendo gamers that wish to have a whole new range of titles to play, which were previously Xbox exclusives, and Call of Duty fans can now relive their old online matches from the Wii and Wii U era back once Microsoft starts rolling out new COD titles with content parity for Nintendo consoles.

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[ZeroT21]

It's gonna be a big spat just like the one Apple vs. Epic had

 

[SimisFul]

It'd be fun to see Microsoft poking at Nintendo to do the same, but we all know how much of a selfish piece of shit pricks they are so they won't do it

Their software exclusivity is the only reason they're still in the console industry, that would be a terrible move financially for them.

 

[Shayuna]

so it is fake or not?

 

[krakenx]

Of course it is.
I still want Microsoft to buy out Activision blizzard already. Why?
Bobby Kotick needs to face the business end of a commercial document shredder as possible.
And throw in Todd Howard for good measure.

Bobby Kotick is going to cry into his multi-million dollar severance package as his Activision stock becomes Microsoft stock and earns him many millions more over the next few years. And that's assuming Microsoft even fires him.

 

[Dark_Ansem]

*yawn* wake me up if the reverse deal happens.

 

[hippy dave]

Any good games? No interest in Call of Doody.

 

[CoolMe]

It seems MS are spreading their wings as much as they can, even if it means working with the competition..

 

[ShadowOne333]

Any good games? No interest in Call of Doody.

Well for starters, we have Halo, Gears of War and the entirety of the Rare catalogue at Nintendo's disposal now, and those are from the only franchises I care about, there might be even more.

 

[hippy dave]

Well for starters, we have Halo, Gears of War and the entirety of the Rare catalogue at Nintendo's disposal now, and those are from the only franchises I care about, there might be even more.

Ok, Rare would be interesting.

 

[CanIHazWarez]

Could this mean new Nintendo hardware before the next Call of Duty release?

 

[RyRyIV]

I consider this one step closer to Master Chief in Smash

 

[Osha]

Well for starters, we have Halo, Gears of War and the entirety of the Rare catalogue at Nintendo's disposal now, and those are from the only franchises I care about, there might be even more.

Rare Replay on Switch would be huge, even if I'm not expecting it.

 

[cvskid]

How does microsoft benefit from catering to nintendo like this? It feels like microsoft does things for nintendo but nintendo does nothing for microsoft.

 

[K3Nv2]

In today's news: Microsoft owns alot of things and is allowing you to spend more money on other devices so you can use them.

 

[duffman2k]

What ever. I have been rocking call of duty mw2 on my ds for quite some time now

 

[ShadowOne333]

How does microsoft benefit from catering to nintendo like this? It feels like microsoft does things for nintendo but nintendo does nothing for microsoft.

That's precisely my point.
It seems like only Nintendo is benefiting from it all, I don't see Nintendo bending the knee to allow use of their stuff in any other places.

 

[ut2k4master]

How does microsoft benefit from catering to nintendo like this? It feels like microsoft does things for nintendo but nintendo does nothing for microsoft.

theyre trying to look good to get the activison deal through

 

[Cris1997XX]

How does microsoft benefit from catering to nintendo like this? It feels like microsoft does things for nintendo but nintendo does nothing for microsoft.

It's all a smokescreen to not make themselves look like a monopoly, which they absolutely are

 

[CanIHazWarez]

How does microsoft benefit from catering to nintendo like this? It feels like microsoft does things for nintendo but nintendo does nothing for microsoft.

This deal specifically is because they don't want the FTC to stop their deal to acquire Activision on the basis of antitrust/not allowing competition. This shows the FTC that Microsoft is willing to play nice with their competitors and they would sooner collaborate with Nintendo than Sony because Nintendo is less of a direct competitor (and Sony has been catty with them over this deal with Activision).
It doesn't hurt them in a business sense either, because Microsoft doesn't make profit on the sale of their consoles. It's a loss leader so they can sell people software. If they can sell that software on Nintendo's platforms, even better. Nintendo actually makes money on the hardware they sell. So it's a win/win.

 

[Lavender01]

Just need nintendo to sign an agreement to bring their game to playstation/xbox, so that we can play them in 4k/8k and actual ultra/extreme quality graphics

I totally get why but if they do that, they better not stop releasing consoles. I loveee the nintendo console aesthetic lmao