A while ago, Microsoft, Nintendo and Valve were not too shy about confirming that they have an agreement with Microsoft, if they manage to pull the closing of the transaction becoming the new owners of Activision Blizzard, they will guarantee 10 years of Call Of Duty launching.

That was 2 months ago more or less, but now Microsoft and Nintendo made the agreement officially by contract.

Of course the timing of the announcement is a strategic one as it coincides with an EU hearing set to take place later on today, in which Microsoft will appear in front of antitrust officials to defend itself after receiving objections to the $69 billion deal and reportedly, Sony will be asked to speak too.

Basically with this, Call Of Duty gets guaranteed a port of Nintendo platform whenever the deal gets official and aging, THIS IS WITH AN BIG IF, Microsoft manages to buy Activision Blizzard.

While it is not the first time that Call Of Duty have been launched to a Nintendo platform, release has been sporadically and the main series last Nintendo stint was Call of Duty: Ghosts for the original Nintendo Wii and ever since, it has been Playstation, Xbox and of course, PC.

Microsoft is using this as leverage against Sony claims that Playstation ``will have difficulties' ' on competinging if Microsoft owns a conglomerate as big as Activision Blizzard and it is no secret that Call Of Duty is the main 3rd party title for Playstation since at least Playstation 3 generation.