In what appears to be an attempt to calm antitrust concerns regarding its recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s Vice Chair Brad Smith tweeted that the company had “signed a 10-year contract to bring Xbox games to Nintendo’s gamers” to bring “Activision titles to more players on more platforms.”
New releases of the iconic Call of Duty franchise will now arrive on Nintendo Switch the same day as Xbox with equal content parity.
Despite such a bold claim, the Switch was already running on outdated hardware when it was released in early 2017. As Call of Duty games push the envelope in terms of technical performance and innovation, Switch ports will inevitably require downscaling.
Gamers have not seen a Call of Duty game officially released on any Nintendo hardware since Ghosts on the Wii U. However, a successor to the Nintendo Switch has been recently hinted at, and it could very well offer a decent version of Call of Duty.
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The deal with Nintendo and Microsoft was announced on the same day that Microsoft claimed it would bring Xbox games to NVIDIA GeForce Now, an all-in-one streaming service that prioritizes the delivery of low-latency high-quality gaming to any device with a screen.
Although GeForce Now is not available on Switch, we may see Nintendo release its own first-party software to support the same feature.