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Call of Duty May Finally Be Coming to the Nintendo Switch
It may not be an ideal platform, but at least you may finally have the option.
According to a tweet by the CEO of Microsoft Gaming, Phil Spencer, “Microsoft has entered into a 10-year commitment to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo following the merger of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard King.”
Spencer also stated that Call of Duty games would continue to be available for the PC platform on Steam as well as the same for Xbox.
Although Spenser’s tweet isn't very detailed about this upcoming deal, he did speak more on some additional details with The Washington Post.
If it’s not blocked by regulators, the merger is aimed to be closed in June 2023. Spencer stated the following regarding this.
“You can imagine if [it] closed on that date, starting to do development work to make that happen would likely take a little bit of time … Once we get into the rhythm of this, our plan would be that when [a COD game] launches on PlayStation, Xbox and PC, that it would also be available on Nintendo at the same time.”
When Spencer was asked if it would be challenging to port COD games over to the Nintendo platform, he referenced Microsoft's experience with porting Minecraft.
“Minecraft and Call of Duty are different games … But from how you get games onto Nintendo, how you run a development team that is targeting multiple platforms, that’s experience we have.”
Even though this deal is set to expire in 10 years, Spencer stated that it’s likely that this partnership will continue past this 10-year expectation.
“It’s just about picking an expiration date, not with the goal of ever expiring, but just like, the legalese of a document has to say this goes through some date.”
I am looking forward to finally seeing modern Call of Duty games on the more portable Nintendo Switch platform, even though it very well will not be the ideal way to play.
But it will still be a great option for people who may not have many options regarding the platform they play on or even for people who wish to play their favorite game on the move using a device with a slim form factor.
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