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Microsoft’s 10-Year Agreement with Nintendo Covers All Future Activision Blizzard Releases (gamingbolt.com)
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This might be old news, but as the focus has been on COD, this is the first I'm hearing of the 10 year agreement being more than COD

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[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I agree that MS is going to do something like that, 10 year contract is understandable. They needed an agreement for the acquisition to go through, and you can't have a lifetime contract, things can change, and then you get stuck into a contract that isn't possible for you to complete. So, you always have a time frame until you are bound by any contract.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Or better yet, Microsoft could just not keep becoming a bigger conglomerate. They just bought Zenimax, and Starfield is Microsoft exclusive (Xbox and Windows).

I wouldn't be surprised if TES 6 and the next DOOM game are also exclusive.

Very clear case of monopolistic practices. Sony isn't much better either, with their rumored aquisition of Square Enix.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t be surprised if TES 6 and the next DOOM game are also exclusive.

I am quite sure that they will be exclusive. Read somewhere that Pete Hines (Bethesda marketing head) was saying they got blindsided by MS about Call of Duty, since they were told to keep their games off PS, and COD is going completely opposite way. And they have no idea why the difference between two.

Didn't read the exact quote, or from any official source, so I could be misquoting some of that, but that was the general gist of it.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess the regulators didn't care as much about Zenimax for whatever reason, even though TES and Fallout are some massively popular franchises.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this wasn't about Activision or anything else, it was just a case about Call of Duty. Which I guess means, Call of Duty alone makes PS more money than all of these combined.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It looks like TES has sold 58.5 million, Fallout 38 million.

Meanwhile COD has sold 428 million.

It's easy to see COD with its annual release cycle being seen as a more important revenue stream.