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Microsoft claims it could get Call of Duty and Warzone running natively on Switch

While Microsoft has signed a legal agreement with Nintendo to bring Call of Duty games to Nintendo consoles if the Activision Blizzard acquisition goes through, there has been doubt as to whether or not we'd see Call of Duty on the Switch. As it turns out, Microsoft is pretty confident that it could get a native version of the game working, even on the Switch's ageing hardware.

Many of us assumed that Call of Duty on Switch would be served as a cloud-based solution, like a number of other AAA third-party games on the system. The UK's CMA also doubted Microsoft's ability to bring Call of Duty to the Switch natively, a point that the company has now responded to, claiming that the game could run on Nintendo's current-gen platform.

“The Activision development team has a long history of optimizing game performance for available hardware capabilities”, Microsoft's response reads. “The Parties are confident that in addition to Warzone, CoD buy-to-play titles (e.g., CoD: Modern Warfare 2) can be optimised to run on the Nintendo Switch in a timely manner using standard techniques which have been used to bring games such as Apex Legends, DOOM Eternal, Fortnite and Crysis 3 to the Switch”.

While many big-name shooters have been brought to the Switch, these games often run poorly and with heavily downgraded graphics settings compared to the Xbox or PlayStation versions. Still, rumour has it Nintendo's next generation system could be with us by the end of next year, so this problem could subside very quickly.

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KitGuru Says: It would certainly be a technical achievement to get Warzone on the Switch. Aside from performance concerns, the game is also huge, and the Switch doesn't have a whole lot of storage. 

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