And if the announcement of the partnership between Nintendo and Microsoft in the Call of Duty license was a form of advancement of the Switch 2?
Today, Microsoft was able to announce its ambition to work with Nintendo to deliver the next Call of Duty games to the Japanese manufacturer’s consoles. The agreement has a duration of 10 years and is as follows: Microsoft and Nintendo have negotiated and signed a 10-year legal agreement to bring the Call of Duty license to Nintendo gamers, on the same day as Xbox, with the same content and features, so they can enjoy the Call of Duty experience. of Duty like Xbox and Play Station. players“. This sentence, quite classic for an ad of this type, actually hides something. Something that could trigger Nintendo’s next console?
¿Call of Duty and Nintendo Switch?
Now, we have to start from an observation: the Nintendo Switch is an aging console which, after almost 6 years of operation on the market, has already reached its technical limits, especially in the face of competition. So releasing a Call of Duty game as planned on the other two home consoles (Xbox and Playstation) currently seems too ambitious technically (even if we have already seen miracle ports on the Nintendo console). Suffice to say that the chances of seeing the next installment of the famous Activision series on Nintendo’s hybrid hardware seem very slim to us…
We have now signed a binding 10-year contract to bring Xbox games to Nintendo gamers. It’s just part of our commitment to bringing Xbox games and Activision titles like Call of Duty to more players on more platforms. pic.twitter.com/JmO0hzw1BO
—Brad Smith (@BradSmi) February 21, 2023
Especially since in its announcement, Microsoft takes the trouble not to mention the Nintendo Switch: instead of saying “bringing the Call of Duty license to the Nintendo Switch”, it actually mentions “bringing the Call of Duty license to the Nintendo Switch”. . . The very absence of a mention of Nintendo Switch in this sentence leads us to wonder: what if the next Call of Duty games were not released on the Switch, but on its heiress? One thing seems certain: we will need a real technical update to support Activision games in the future.