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Microsoft has been offering 10-year deals to bring Xbox games as well as Activision Blizzard games to multiple cloud gaming platforms. In the latest development, the company has added a European platform in the list of such platforms.
In a tweet, the company president Brad Smith said that Microsoft and European cloud gaming platform Nware have signed a 10-year agreement.
“Microsoft and European cloud gaming platform Nware have signed a 10-year agreement to stream PC games built by Xbox on its platform, as well as Activision Blizzard titles after the acquisition closes. While it’s still early for the emerging cloud segment in gaming, this new partnership combined with our other recent commitments will make more popular games available on more cloud game streaming services than they are today,” the company said in a statement.
Nware is a Spanish cloud gaming service that enables gamers to stream games from their own Steam, Epic Game Store, and Ubisoft Connect platforms.
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Previous 10-year deals
Microsoft struck deals with various other cloud gaming platforms, including Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service, Ukraine-based Boosteroid and Japanese cloud gaming provider Ubitus. The company also came into agreement with Nintendo to bring Xbox and Activision Blizzard games on Switch.
It is noteworthy that the deals will materialise only after Microsoft gets a go-ahead to acquire the video game company for $68.7 billion.
Nvidia also threw its support behind Microsoft’s Activision deal saying that “GeForce NOW and other cloud gaming providers stand to gain an even deeper catalog of games” if the deal is completed.
“We see this as a benefit to cloud gaming and hope for a positive resolution,” it said.
Why these 10-year deals
Microsoft had been trying to convince the regulators that the acquisition is good for competition and that Sony’s concerns on Microsoft making Call of Duty games exclusive to Xbox consoles is baseless. Sony has also alleged that Microsoft may also release a buggy version of COD on PlayStation.
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Microsoft responded by saying that Sony arguments do not hold ground due to the dominance of PlayStations consoles in the market.
Sony said that it shipped 19.1 million PS5 consoles in its 2022 financial year, beating its earlier forecast of 18 million. This means that there are over 38.4 million PS5 consoles users globally.
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