22 Feb. (Portaltic/EP) –
Microsoft today announced a new agreement with Nvidia to bring Xbox titles for PC and those developed by Activision Blizzard to its cloud gaming platform, Nvidia GeForce Now, over the next ten years.
In January 2022, the Xbox manufacturer announced its intention to buy the video game developer, a move that its main competitor, Sony, did not like, which raised the possibility that Microsoft will monopolize the ‘gaming’ universe.
The technology company is only a few months away from knowing the final verdict on the purchase of Activision Blizzard King, a takeover that the UK Competition Market Authority (CMA) was initially set to resolve on March 1 but has been delayed until the end of April this year. The agreement is also being reviewed in the United States and the European Union, among other markets.
This Tuesday, the president of Microsoft, Brad Smith, announced that his company had “negotiated and signed a ten-year binding agreement” to bring Activison Blizzard’s flagship video game, Call of Duty, “to Nintendo gamers the same day as Xbox”.
The manager released the news the same day he presented the arguments for which they believe that the European Commission, another of the organizations investigating the purchase, should approve the transaction.
Just a few hours later, Microsoft advertisement which had partnered with Nvidia, also over a ten-year period, to bring Xbox games for PC to the cloud gaming service of Nvidia, GeForce Now.
Thanks to this agreement, Xbox will also bring its video games to macOS, Chromebooks, smartphones and other devices. It will also allow PC titles from Activision Blizzard are transmitted in this ‘cloud’ service.
From Microsoft they point out that this association “offers more options to players and resolves Nvidia’s concerns with Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard” and ensures that “Nvidia offers its full support for the regulatory approval of the acquisition.”
Microsoft has commented that it will begin working with Nvidia “immediately” to integrate its Xbox PC titles for its gaming platform and that they will be made known from the GeForce Now website. release dates of these Microsoft video games on GeForce Now.
