Mexico City.- Microsoft said today that it has reached an agreement for the successful video game Call of Duty to be available on Nintendo for 10 years, once its acquisition of the game manufacturer Activision Blizzard for 69 billion dollars is finalized.
The giant merger is under close scrutiny by regulators in the United States, Europe and other agencies.
Microsoft, maker of the Xbox game console, is facing resistance from Sony, creator of the PlayStation console and who has expressed concern to competition authorities about losing access to the “must-have” game.
Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, thanked Nintendo, maker of the Switch console, in a tweet and said the same offer was available to Sony.
“When @Sony wants to sit down and talk, we’d be happy to work out a 10-year deal for PlayStation as well,” he said.
Smith said that with the deal, Call of Duty will be accessible to more players and platforms, which “benefits competition and consumers.”
Sony’s European press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
At the heart of the dispute is control of future versions of Activision Blizzard’s most popular games, most notably Call of Duty, a first-person military action franchise.
Activision reported last month that the most recent version, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, had more than $1 billion in sales since its release on October 28.
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