A new internal report from MLex says this:

Microsoft's Call of Duty deal with Nintendo is misleading, Sony argues

Sony has criticized Microsoft's deal to make the game Call of Duty available on Nintendo — should its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard be approved by regulators — as smoke and mirrors, MLex has learned.

Activision Blizzard could supply Call of Duty to Nintendo today, but doesn't, because Nintendo's younger audience is not interested in the first-person shooter and a previous version of the game on its console was a commercial flop, the arch critic of the deal says, MLex understands.

Instead of being a logical business decision, the licensing agreement is a tactic designed to make Microsoft — whose acquisition has drawn concerns in the EU, UK and US — look cooperative with regulators, the argument goes.

Furthermore, Nintendo's Switch could not run Call of Duty easily and may never be able to, Sony argues, MLex understands. Developing a version of the game compatible with the Switch could take years, making a 10-year licensing deal meaningless.

It is easier for Nintendo to enter into such an agreement, Sony says, MLex has learned. Nintendo doesn't need to worry about equal treatment for its subscription service or cloud gaming service as those are not areas where it currently competes aggressively, the argument goes.

Source: Idas

Holy hell……..I’m at a loss for words

Sony acting like the spoiled rich kid that for the first time in their lives, things are going the way they’re supposed to. 

Seeing Sony’s most recent attempt to sabotage the deal, I don’t blame him. 

Sony increasingly looks as though they are arguing in bad faith and are just trying to have their cake and eat it too.  Which, I think was the point of Microosft reaching out to Nintendo. 

I have lost a lot of respect for SIE over the last several months.  I know they are acting in their interests but they come off as lacking confidence in their own product and looking desperate. 

Lmfao.

Sony is sounding like a Twitter console warrior.

Nintendo's younger audience isn't interested in Call of Duty? The old "Nintendo's audience is full of children" card when Nintendo's own stats say otherwise, Nintendo fans aren't interested in FPS? And c'mon, most of Call of Duty fans started playing the damn thing in their teens, it has a huge young audience despite the age rating, Lol.

The last CoD on a Nintendo console flopped because it was on a flop of a console, the Wii U. It's a tactic sure, not to look cooperative with regulators though, but to be cooperative with regulators, that's the entire point, you cooperate with regulators? Lol.

Such nonsense to claim that Switch may never be able to run Call of Duty considering all the others far more demanding ports it received and the fact that CoD is on freaking mobile too, Lol, also Cloud versions of games exist on Switch already and don't take years to develop. It may be a bit of a risk? But sometimes risks are worth taking instead of focusing strictly on "sensible business decisions".

If I'm making a prediction though, I think CoD will do well on Switch. And Sony is acting like Switch 2 won't ever happen or that Microsoft won't just hire an external porting studio, it isn't going to take as long as they claim to get a Switch version of Call of Duty out.

And Sony, lets be honest, you don't compete aggressively in subscription services or cloud gaming services either so why does it matter that Nintendo doesn't? Either way, Nintendo is growing their business in both those areas so yes it still matters to them that Microsoft is growing theirs too.

https://twitter.com/vaccaro3d/status/1600669242084364290?s=20&t=RhA8gWCsSnrPShgp8QW4eg

Principle environmental artist at Naughty Dog weighs in on the deal. As you would expect, it's negative

Legit. Terrible arguments and speaking on behalf of Nintendo too? Lol.

Man, I wish Nintendo commented on this now but I understand if they want to stay out of this mess.

Thank you Sony for protecting the children once again, Nintendo Switch's entire 8 year old userbase are safe.

I'm literally lost for words from what I just read.

Wow. After reading the blogpost of Naughty Dog’s developer from Twitter, this is getting ugly lol

*insert Michael Jackson eating popcorn gif

Desperate housewives: Sony edition.