A hoax or is there something we don't know? UK regulators question whether Call of Duty games will work properly on Nintendo consoles

Last week, Microsoft president Brad Smith announced that the corporation had signed a ten-year deal with Nintendo to release games from Xbox Game Studios, and subsequently Activision Blizzard, on Japanese consoles. Of course, everyone is referring to Call of Duty, around which passions have been simmering for the second year.

Immediately after the news many experts have expressed doubts that the popular shooter will run smoothly on the frankly weak hardware Nintendo consoles.

Today it has been reported that the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) shares this view and sees the agreement as a sham.

The Commission expressed doubts that Call of Duty would be acceptable on Nintendo Switch consoles, as modern parts of the game are too demanding, and if it does come out on these devices, it will be in a much worse form than on other platforms.

Furthermore, UK experts claim that anonymous developers have confirmed that games comparable to Call of Duty are almost impossible to release on Nintendo without a significant loss of quality.

It's likely that this dubious agreement between Microsoft and Nintendo could adversely affect the decision of UK regulators to approve the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.

Source: Forbes