Microsoft signed a 10-year deal to bring Xbox and other properties to Nvidia's cloud gamers and to Nintendo gamers in a bid to satisfy antitrust regulators.
Microsoft Corp. has signed a 10-year deal to bring Xbox and other properties to Nvidia Corp.’s cloud gamers and to Nintendo Co.’s gamers in a push to satisfy antitrust regulators about its pending $69 billion acquisition of videogame publisher Activision Blizzard Inc.
The partnership will bring Microsoft’s MSFT Xbox games like “Minecraft” and Activision titles like “Call of Duty,” should the deal close, to Nvidia’s NVDA GeForce Now cloud gaming service. The deal applies to platforms such as PCs, devices running Apple Inc.’s AAPL MacOS, Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG GOOGL Chromebooks and other devices, the companies said.
Jeff Fisher, senior vice president of GeForce, said in a statement that “combining the incredibly rich catalog of Xbox first party games with GeForce Now’s high-performance streaming capabilities will propel cloud gaming into a mainstream offering that appeals to gamers at all levels of interest and experience. Through this partnership, more of the world’s most popular titles will now be available from the cloud with just a click, playable by millions more gamers.
Microsoft also said that Xbox PC games that are available in third-party outlets like Steam or Epic Games will also be available through GeForce Now, which costs $100 for six months.
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