There was a time when Call of Duty WWII coming to the Nintendo Switch seemed to be a very badly kept secret. But the launch of that game came and went and not only did it not get a Switch release but the latest entry to the series, Black Ops IIII, has been announced for everything but the Nintendo Switch. So what’s up with that?
BLESS THIS MAN
In order to understand the way Activision works, we need to look at another recent game of theirs; Crash Bandicoot. It recently came to light that the Switch version of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy owes its existence to a single engineer, who took initiative and ported the first few levels of the game to Switch, proving to the higher-ups that it can be done.
THEY’RE TURNING THE FREAKING BANDICOOTS GAY
Now for the best part. Please put your tinfoil hats on. It’s a well known fact that Sony has an exclusivity contract with Activision that exchanges the handling of some marketing costs for content making it first to PlayStation. Is it too hard to believe that a company that constantly feels threatened by their competition, going as far as to block cross-play with rival systems, didn’t pay Activision to incentivise them to avoid the Nintendo Switch?
SONY, THE EA OF CONSOLE MANUFACTURERS
It wouldn’t be the first time such shady practices were used in the gaming industry and Sony is a prime candidate for this. They’re proven time and time again that there are no lengths they won’t go to in order to hurt the competition. Tinfoil hats off.
SEASON PASS THIS GAME FOR A BETTER ONE
So there you go. The answer is always money. Either someone isn’t paying enough for Call of Duty to make its way to the Switch or someone is paying enough for it not to. And that’s ok. Activision is only losing money from not releasing their game on the hottest console right now, their Call of Duty franchise is becoming more and more detached from its fanbase with the removal of the single-player campaign and soon we will have another Guitar Hero on our hands. Call of Duty has lost its soul and will be inevitably milked to nothing if they continue this way.
Oh and if you make the argument that the Switch isn’t powerful enough to run a Call of Duty game, let’s not forget this port exists and was surprisingly playable at the time.
But who knows? Maybe we’ll see something Call of Duty related in that rumoured August Nintendo Direct.
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