My head hurts.
They finally did it, folks. After a prolonged will-they-won't-they, filled with all sorts of subtle hints and loaded implications, Microsoft has gone and tied the knot.
Good news for anyone determined to keep their library centralised on Steam, especially since the series only returned to the platform with. But the commitment to Nintendo is, at first, a little odd: You can't play a single COD game on Switch right now anyway, so why on Earth is Microsoft committing to a decade of Nintendo releases for the series?
Because it's not really about Nintendo—or Steam, for that matter—it's about Sony. The PlayStation maker has been a consistent thorn in Microsoft's side since the acquisition process began, and its complaints have mostly revolved around access to COD. Sony has complained to any national regulator that will listen that giving Microsoft domain over the Call of Duty series could have market-upending effects, and some of them have taken note.
Thus this deal with Nintendo and Steam. Microsoft hasn't said this outright, of course, but it's pretty plain that deals like these are about showing national regulators that the company can be trusted to play nice with the series it owns and defanging Sony's complaints. Microsoft has been loudly talking about a similar
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