Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, was also included in this email chain, which demonstrates the relevance that the issue had for both companies, since the president of Nintendo, Shuntaro Furukawa, was also present.
The alleged details of the new Nintendo console
According to the documents, it would be valuable for Activision Blizzard to have access to the new device to be able to take advantage of its potential from the start, since it has technical capabilities similar to those of the eighth generation consoles.
“Given the greater alignment in terms of performance and our previous offerings on PS4/Xbox One, it is reasonable to assume that we could also make something attractive for NG Switch. Ensuring early access to development hardware prototypes would be helpful,” Schnakenberg wrote.
The FTC vs Microsoft case for the purchase of Activision has been one of the main ways to discover new elements of the next Nintendo console. During his testimony at the hearing, Kotick revealed that they regretted not bringing Call of Duty to Switch, due to the numerous sales they lost.
However, the company stated that as part of the agreement to allow the acquisition they will publish the new games in the franchise on the next Nintendo console, which already gives clues about the launch of a next-generation console.
It should be remembered that at the beginning of the month, a series of media specialized in video games released a report that Nintendo had shown its new device to several journalists during the Gamescom convention, held in August in Germany.
The VGC medium corroborated such reports and pointed out that it is a gadget with cartridge support capable of running Nvidia’s DLSS technology, which is a use of Artificial Intelligence to scale image quality up to 4K.
It was reported that the new console would be capable of playing AAA games, as it supposedly ran titles like The Matrix Awakens, as well as an upgraded version of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.