Gaming Why was Call of Duty on the Wii U but not the Switch?

aykay55 · Jan 4, 2019

Quick question, if Activision brought not one but two CoD games, one at launch and one much later on (when literally everyone abandoned the system), to the Wii U, which was a disappointment in terms of hardware, and a failure in terms of third party support, then why would they skip out on the Switch? The Switch is much more powerful by comparison, with double the RAM and clock speeds only slightly less than its competitors, yet the director from Activision laughed off the question of it ever coming to Switch. The Switch has relatively huge third party support, at least on a Nintendo console in the recent. The system is also much easier to port to, so why would Activision support the failure that was the Wii U but pretend the Switch doesn't exist?

sith · Jan 4, 2019

Ok ...

so activision assumed the wiiu would be super successful before launch because of the Wii history so they ported the engine to it, then once all that hard work was done it was easy to do the second game(same engine)

Activision laughed at the switch port back when they were still remembering the wiiu's disappointing sales/losses and they saw the switch as a wiiu version 2(many many predicted the switch to be a massive flop). The next day they walked back the "never" and "switch isnt for hardcore gamers" comments on their twitter.

Switch had basically no third party support for the first two years. Now there is 25 million units sold and every major third party developer/publisher is scrambling to release stuff this year(EA, UBI, Etc..) they are porting all the major engines to arm (tegra's architecture) i bet you see black ops 4 before years end and the next cod on switch at release. just a guess tho.

aykay55 · Jan 5, 2019

sith said:
Ok ...

so activision assumed the wiiu would be super successful before launch because of the Wii history so they ported the engine to it, then once all that hard work was done it was easy to do the second game(same engine)

Activision laughed at the switch port back when they were still remembering the wiiu's disappointing sales/losses and they saw the switch as a wiiu version 2(many many predicted the switch to be a massive flop). The next day they walked back the "never" and "switch isnt for hardcore gamers" comments on their twitter.

Switch had basically no third party support for the first two years. Now there is 25 million units sold and every major third party developer/publisher is scrambling to release stuff this year(EA, UBI, Etc..) they are porting all the major engines to arm (tegra's architecture) i bet you see black ops 4 before years end and the next cod on switch at release. just a guess tho.

To be fair to Ubisoft, they were nothing but supportive on the Switch and they have a super great relationship with Nintendo. They seemed to have done all they can. Ubisoft is given access to Nintendo's developer tools way earlier than other third parties. They develop many exclusives on Nintendo consoles, like the yearly Just Dance and games like Mario + Rabbids, and they also added Fox McCloud to the Switch version of Starlink. Otherwise yes, they were all (Activision and EA especially) just gonna skip the Switch totally and now they are crying back to Nintendo.

Stecker8 · Jan 7, 2019

aykay55 said:
Quick question, if Activision brought not one but two CoD games, one at launch and one much later on (when literally everyone abandoned the system), to the Wii U, which was a disappointment in terms of hardware, and a failure in terms of third party support, then why would they skip out on the Switch? The Switch is much more powerful by comparison, with double the RAM and clock speeds only slightly less than its competitors, yet the director from Activision laughed off the question of it ever coming to Switch. The Switch has relatively huge third party support, at least on a Nintendo console in the recent. The system is also much easier to port to, so why would Activision support the failure that was the Wii U but pretend the Switch doesn't exist?

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Some 'leakers' like Marcus Sellars said that Black OPS IV was coming to switch however as you can see there is no Call Of Duty for Switch

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