Xbox games will be on Nintendo Switch 2 confirms Microsoft as Doom rumoured
Xbox games will be on Nintendo Switch 2 confirms Microsoft as Doom rumoured
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Microsoft’s gaming CEO has confirmed Xbox games are coming to the Nintendo Switch 2, as he refuses to rule out Starfield for other platforms. Xbox’s pivot towards becoming a multiplatform company may have accelerated over the past two years, but the origins of this shift began a few years prior.
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In hindsight, the key turning point was Ori And The Blind Forest’s arrival on the Nintendo Switch in 2019. This was the first Microsoft-published game on the console, which led to Banjo and Kazooie’s inclusion in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – signifying a new kind of relationship between the two companies.
We’ve seen other Xbox games arrive on Switch since then, including Ori And The Will Of The Wisps, Grounded, and Pentiment. So given that, and how key the idea of bringing Call Of Duty to Nintendo formats was during their campaign to buy Activision Blizzard, it’s no surprise to hear Xbox is planning to support the Nintendo Switch 2 in a significant way.
Speaking in an interview with Gamertag Radio, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said he congratulated Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa following the console’s reveal. ‘I was exchanging emails with Furukawa-san, the CEO of Nintendo,’ Spencer said. ‘I gave him a big congrats and said my old eyes appreciate the larger screen.
That’s a very different tone to the leaked email in which Spencer previously spoke about his desire to buy Nintendo and how, in his opinion, ‘their future exists off of their own hardware’. ‘Nintendo, their innovation, and what they mean in this industry… I just always applaud the moves that they make. They did a little flash video, and I know we’ll get more detail over time. I’m really looking forward to supporting them with the games that we have, and I just think they’re such an important part of this industry,’ said Spencer on Gamertag Radio.
