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Ryuu96 said:

I must have missed this...?

'Microsoft even took steps to expand Call of Duty to non-Microsoft platforms. On the day of the merger's announcement, Microsoft called the head of Nintendo North America, Doug Bowser, and Nintendo's lead for partnerships, Steve Singer, to discuss a partnership to bring Call of Duty to the Switch. (Dkt. No. 282, 6/22/23 Tr. (Bond) at 167:24-169:18.) Those discussions led to an inked deal to bring Call of Duty to the Switch. All of this conduct is inconsistent with an intent to foreclose"

PacerMonitor Document View - 3:23-cv-02880 - Federal Trade Commission v. Microsoft Corporation et al, Docket Item 305

So Microsoft intended to bring Call of Duty to Switch before any regulator even got involved?

So Nintendo didn't get a deal thanks to regulators, they got a deal simply because Microsoft wanted to give them one?

And the deals with the Cloud Companies are still only thanks to the European Commission, Lol.

I'm not surprised Microsoft wanted to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo platforms. They were going to treat the franchise the same way it does Minecraft even before regulators stepped in.

Last edited by trunkswd - on 14 July 2023