We all know that for many years, the Nintendo console platform has been jokingly called the "Three Graves", which is the so-called "Third Party Grave".
Whether it is the Wii and WiiU of the home platform, or the NDS and 3DS of the handheld platform, or even the Switch that has been hot at present, let Nintendo's own masterpieces make a lot of money. Third-party games have been selling dismal on Nintendo consoles. These works are like tombstones, which is why the term "three graves" is used.
Legend has it that "Three Graves" first appeared on the Nintendo WII platform, as one of the highest-selling hosts in Nintendo's history, the hardware base of 100 million can not be described as eye-catching, but no matter how powerful the third-party 3A masterpiece is, it is basically applauded on WII. Just look at the top ten sales:
1. Wii Sports 82.88 million
2. Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow 59.52 million
3. Super Mario Bros. 47.58 million
4. Pokémon: Gold, Silver/Crystal 42.21 million
5. Pokémon: Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald 37.62 million
6. Mario Kart 8 37.44 million
7. Mario Kart wii 37.24 million
8. Tetris 35.84 million
9.《Wii Sports Resort》3314万
10. New Super Mario Bros. DS 30.8 million
All of them are Nintendo's own games! Therefore, it was rumored that Nintendo was too aggressive and overbearing to ignore third parties, plus the Wii looked a bit like a tombstone, thus achieving the notoriety of "Three Graves".
This state has continued to this day, and the Switch is still "Mario Odyssey", "Zelda's Breath of the Wild", "Animal Forest" and other Nintendo first-party masterpieces, plus the Switch hardware configuration is too poor (thousands of mobile phone grade ARM processors), resulting in other big manufacturers often reluctant to take risks, or even transplant degraded replica works to switch ("The Witcher 3", "Old Roll 5", "Resident Evil 6" and so on).
The only exception is probably Capcom's Monster Hunter, whether it's 3G on 3DS, 4G, or the new 2021 "Monster Hunter: Rise", which has always sold well.
Today, Microsoft, which is not afraid of death, said it hopes that Call of Duty and other Activision Blizzard games will enter Nintendo consoles such as switch.
Company President Brad Smith declared that placing the current Activision Blizzard game on as many console platforms as possible was Microsoft's goal after completing a major acquisition.
He said: "A great game like Call of Duty, which came to automatically see Blizzard today, we wanted to bring it to Nintendo consoles. We wanted to make other popular games owned by Activision Blizzard available on the Nintendo Switch.
Call of Duty was previously released on Nintendo consoles, but that was 9 years ago, and the last work was Call of Duty: Ghost, released on WiiU in 2013, which was terrible in terms of sales and picture quality.
Previously, many players worried that Microsoft had acquired Bethesda and announced that The Elder Scrolls 6 would be an Xbox exclusive game, proving that Microsoft might list Activision Blizzard games as its own exclusive.
However, Smith gave a rebuttal example, saying that Microsoft turned Minecraft into an all-platform game after it acquired Mojang in 2014.
Since 2022, Microsoft has shocked the game industry by acquiring game production companies such as Activision Blizzard- Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch. In response, Sony PlayStation followed suit, acquiring Bungie, the developer of Destiny.
"Three Graves" Nintendo is silent, as always, going its own way, saying that it is not interested in acquiring other companies, selling its own platform, making its own games, and "printing" its own money.