In order to promote the acquisition of Blizzard, Microsoft recently signed a 10-year agreement with Nintendo, Nvidia, and Ukrainian Boosteroid. Today, it signed a 10-year agreement with the Japanese cloud game company Ubitus again.
According to the agreement signed by the two parties, after Microsoft acquired Blizzard, cloud game company Ubitus can provide Xbox games and Activision Blizzard games through the cloud.
Founded in 2013, Ubitus currently powers cloud gaming for a number of companies, most notably powering cloud versions of several Resident Evil games for the Nintendo Switch.
Brad Smith, vice chairman and president of Microsoft, previously issued a statement, is as follows:
"This move is partly an effort to make it clearer to regulators that our acquisition of Activision Blizzard will allow Call of Duty to run on more devices. If the only argument was that Microsoft would refuse to make Call of Duty available on other platforms, we've now signed contracts that will bring it to even more devices and platforms."
Of course, Sony obviously disagrees with this statement. In a recent filing with the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, the PlayStation maker pointed out that Microsoft said the same thing before it bought Bethesda Softworks, and that it couldn’t believe Stargazing wasn’t available on the PlayStation platform. One reason for the company’s commitment to cross-platform Call of Duty.
