微软确信《使命召唤》可以针对Switch进行优化

微软正在尽其所能完成与动视暴雪的交易计划。几周前，微软和任天堂达成了一项为期10年的协议，将确保在此期间《使命召唤》在任天堂游戏机上运行。微软想要安抚反垄断机构，说服他们同意完成对动视暴雪的收购计划。但是，索尼坚决反对这一做法，并担心未来重要的游戏品牌将被排除在PlayStation之外。

然而，到目前为止，这些围绕《使命召唤》的10年期协议似乎并没有完全说服当局;关于任天堂，英国竞争与市场管理局(简称CMA)对此尤其不满。在一份新的报告中，该机构表示，两家公司之间的新合同“并不确定《使命召唤》将出现在任天堂平台上”。

虽然微软在与任天堂的交易中承诺了这一点，以强调《使命召唤》不应该只针对Xbox，但与PlayStation和Xbox相比，switch的“技术限制”让《使命召唤》的实际发行存在疑问。

微软已经对这篇报道做出了回应，并相信《使命召唤》可以针对switch进行优化:“支持《战争地带》的游戏引擎已经成熟，并且已经针对广泛的硬件进行了优化(从2015年发布的Xbox One到Xbox Series X)。《战争地带》支持早在2015年发布的GPU卡的PC硬件(早在2017年任天堂switch发布之前)。”

微软还指出，他们“在为可用硬件优化游戏性能方面有着悠久的历史”。因此，像《战争地带》或《现代战争2》等游戏也将针对这一转变进行优化，就像其他开发者在《Apex传奇》，《堡垒之夜》或《孤岛危机3》等游戏中所做的那样。

CMA预计将在今年4月26日前就收购动视暴雪做出决定。

Microsoft is doing everything it can to bring the planned deal with Activision Blizzard through. In order to placate the antitrust authorities, Call of Duty was also secured as part of a 10-year deal with Nintendo – but the British authorities expressed concerns. However, Microsoft itself is convinced of the possibility of a switch implementation of the shooter series.

A few weeks ago, Microsoft and Nintendo entered into a 10-year deal that will ensure Call of Duty on Nintendo consoles for that period. The Redmond company wants to appease the antitrust authorities and convince them to go through with the planned purchase of Activision Blizzard. Above all, Sony is resolutely opposed to this and fears that important game brands will be excluded from the PlayStation in the future.
So far, however, these 10-year deals around Call of Duty do not seem to have completely convinced the authorities; With regard to Nintendo, the British Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA for short, is particularly critical of this. In a new report, the authority states that the new contract between the two companies “does not entail any certainty that Call of Duty will be available on a Nintendo platform”.
Although Microsoft would have promised this in the deal with Nintendo to underline that Call of Duty should not be exclusive to the Xbox, the “technical limitations” of the switch compared to the PlayStation and the Xbox leave an actual release of Call of Duty doubt there.
Microsoft has already responded to this report and is convinced that Call of Duty can be optimized for the switch: “The game engine that powers Warzone is mature and has been optimized for a wide range of hardware (starting from Xbox One released in 2015 to Xbox Series X). Warzone supports PC hardware with GPU cards released back as far as 2015 (and thus before the release of the Nintendo Switch in 2017).”
They also point out that they have “a long history of optimizing game performance for available hardware”. Accordingly, one is convinced that titles like Warzone or Modern Warfare 2 will also be optimized for the switch, similar to what other developers have done with Apex Legends, DOOM Eternal, Fortnite or Crysis 3, for example.
To be honest, all of these titles look noticeably worse on the Switch than on the competing platforms, but: They just run on the Nintendo console! The CMA’s decision regarding the Activision Blizzard acquisition is expected by April 26 of this year.
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