10 Reasons Nintendo Have Us WORRIED
7. Microsoft's Promised Call Of Duty May Not Work
Microsoft has made bold claims to seal their Activision Blizzard deal in recent months. Most notably for Nintendo fans, the company has promised Call of Duty for Switch over the next ten years.
CoD on Switch sounds fine - until you think about the underlying hardware. Now six years old and rising, Nintendo's handheld doesn't have what it takes to run the ninth version of CoD's game engine.
What's more, Nintendo has not publicly acknowledged Microsoft's announcement, which could be read as a cautious deferral of the port.
Hefty download sizes mean CoD won't fit onto even the OLED's 64GB internal memory, so that means more microSD cards required for Switch owners. It will also inevitably be a stripped-down, more underwhelming version of the experience compared to its PS5 and Xbox cousins, and that's if it can even run at all - the UK's Competition and Markets Authority believes that it can't.
How is this going to work with crossplay? Won't Switch users be at a severe disadvantage, as they are in other fast-paced online shooters like Apex Legends?
It seems like a very odd match on paper. Maybe there's a reason Activision hasn't bothered releasing Call of Duty on Switch for the last half-decade.