{"id":123748,"date":"2022-04-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-129973"},"modified":"2022-04-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T12:00:00","slug":"more-switch-owners-would-consider-game-pass-if-activision-titles-were-added-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/08\/more-switch-owners-would-consider-game-pass-if-activision-titles-were-added-poll-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"More Switch Owners Would Consider Game Pass If Activision Titles Were Added, Poll Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/483ea509dda0c\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/483ea509dda0c\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Call Of Duty\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/483ea509dda0c\/call-of-duty.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/483ea509dda0c\/call-of-duty.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"505\" alt=\"Call Of Duty\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em>Image: Activision<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Xbox Game Pass is pretty hard to resist, right? A monthly subscription brings you tons of titles that you can download and play whenever you want &#8211; as long as they stay on the surface. And with Microsoft acquiring companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2021\/03\/microsoft_officially_welcomes_bethesda_to_team_xbox\" class=\"external\">Bethesda<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/02\/microsoft-wants-call-of-duty-on-switch-along-with-other-popular-activision-blizzard-games\">Activision Blizzard<\/a>, the prospect of those games becoming exclusive to the system <em>as well as<\/em> being on Game Pass, it&#8217;s one heck of a sales pitch.<\/p>\n<p>With Activision in particular, the <strong>Call of Duty<\/strong> publishers and their new owners in the Big X (doesn&#8217;t sound as good, does it?), they&#8217;re adamant they still want their titles to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/02\/microsoft-wants-call-of-duty-on-switch-along-with-other-popular-activision-blizzard-games\">release on the Switch<\/a>. It totally makes sense, with IPs like <strong>Crash Bandicoot<\/strong>, <strong>Spyro the Dragon<\/strong>, and <strong>Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater<\/strong> all being big hitters alongside the FPS giant. But having those on Game Pass, too? That&#8217;s the <em>real<\/em> draw, especially as Sony has now announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2022\/03\/ps-plus-ps-now-merged-service-revealed-goes-live-in-june\" class=\"external\">an overhauled subscription service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following Sony&#8217;s big reveal last week, we put each of the big three&#8217;s subscription services up against each other. They&#8217;re all pretty different and offer different things, so you should have a peek:<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to blue-sky thinking for Game Pass. A poll conducted by YouGov <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/business.yougov.com\/content\/40572-how-many-users-could-microsoftactivision-deal-brin\">earlier this year<\/a> has revealed that nearly 50% of US PlayStation and Switch owners would consider Game Pass if any Activision franchise was included in the subscription service. That number is slightly lower in the UK, where just under 30% of Switch and PlayStation gamers would consider the same. That&#8217;s still almost a third of the market, which isn&#8217;t unsubstantial given that there hasn&#8217;t been a new Call of Duty game on Nintendo hardware since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/call_of_duty_ghosts\">Ghosts<\/a>. That&#8217;s nearly ten years ago!<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need an Xbox console to get Game Pass, so don&#8217;t worry about forking out for a new console if you&#8217;re interested. You can get the subscription service on your PC or some Android devices, or stream them via Xbox&#8217;s Cloud Gaming service. The idea of trying out brand new titles and AAA releases as soon as they come out on a subscription service would be a big draw for many.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you got Game Pass? What would tempt you to sign up for the service if you haven&#8217;t? And do you think Nintendo should do something similar? Let us know<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Activision Xbox Game Pass is pretty hard to resist, right? A monthly subscription brings you tons of titles that you can download and play whenever you want &#8211; as long as they stay on the surface. And with Microsoft acquiring companies like Bethesda and Activision Blizzard, the prospect of those games becoming exclusive to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}