Did Activision make a mistake by skipping CoD on the Switch?

Day four of the FTC v. Microsoft hearing ended up witnessing even more shocking revelations, thanks to multiple testimonies. The most crucial one among them, however, was perhaps from Activision CEO Bobby Kotick. While replying to some grilling questions, he revealed how Call of Duty should have been there on Nintendo’s handheld console. But he made a mistake by not doing enough to make it happen in the past.

FTC lawyers tried to push Mr. Kotick a lot by questioning on numerous topics which were directly or indirectly related to the $68.7 billion proposed acquisition of his publishing company by the Xbox maker.

Bobby Kotick reveals he thought that Call of Duty on Nintendo Switch wouldn’t be a success

On the fourth day of the case, Bobby Kotick faced some tough questions in relation to mobile segment and Switch games. When asked about CoD Mobile, he revealed that his company had to partner with Tencent to make this title as they couldn’t do it “on our own”.

FTC tried to establish that if Activision is lacking experience required for creating CoD for mobile, the deal with Microsoft would not make it easier at all to create a version for something like the Switch. However, Bobby Kotick explained his reason by saying that Microsoft’s team “can evaluate what would be required or they could envision a game that they might make on Switch.”

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Speaking of Nintendo’s handheld device, Bobby Kotick was also questioned about not having Call of Duty on the Japanese giant’s popular console. While regretting the same, he said: “I made a bad judgment.”

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In his testimony, Mr. Kotick said that he thought that Nintendo was trying to do too much on the Switch, back in the day. Thus, he assumed that bringing Call of Duty on the device wouldn’t be a success. “It’s probably the second biggest video game system of all time,” said the Activision CEO while regretting his decision from the past.

June 29th is the final day of this high-profile case. What’s your prediction regarding the ultimate result? Who do you think will win eventually? Let us know in the comments!

Source: The Verge

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