Could Call of Duty be coming to Switch?

Could Call of Duty be coming to Switch?
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Call of Duty could be coming to Nintendo Switch, in fact, it could stay there. A deal has just been struck with Nintendo for the Switch, and any future consoles thereafter, to receive the latest Call of Duty games for the next ten years. (This is not a finalized agreement and depends on a technicality, which we'll get to in a paragraph or two.)

What makes this announcement so amazing is that it seems to come out of nowhere. Activision has snubbed Nintendo for years and years. The last time they let a Call of Duty grace a Nintendo console was Ghosts on Wii U, and when that naturally underperformed, the company stayed away, even when everyone and their dog bought a Switch. There has been a user base strong enough to support a CoD title for quite some time now. So why wait until THIS moment?

Because there is an underlying motive. It's not Activision making the decision to bring Call of Duty to Switch. It's Microsoft, which is looking to buy Activision, but US regulators are blocking the deal, citing anti-trust concerns. So this is Microsoft saying “No, no, we wouldn't keep one of the most popular game franchises on a console! We're even putting it on Switch, see?

Would this agreement exist otherwise? Probably not.

The bigger question is whether a modern Call of Duty game can RUN on a Switch, and Microsoft probably hasn't thought that far ahead. It would take a lot of compromises to get next year's super-bright ray-traced title on that aging hardware. Assuming that happens, we'll end up with a shrunken, buggy, graphically ugly mess, OR a "cloud" version that you can never truly own because it's being streamed to you from a server that will eventually go offline.

Hardcore CoD enthusiasts will likely stick with the XBox. Or with PC, since Microsoft offered the same ten-year deal to Steam.

Source: animesuperhero.com