The upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will not be available on Switch 2 at launch, an insider says.
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This doesn’t necessarily mean that the game will never receive a Switch 2 port in the future, simply that it won’t be ready on day one.
Billbil-kun believes the game will be released on other formats on November 14, stating that this date had already been reported by a previous leaker and that their information corroborates this.
Should Black Ops 7 not be released on Switch 2 on day one, it’s likely to be due to to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo platforms in 2023, promising to release future Call of Duty games “with full feature and content parity” on Nintendo platforms on the same day as Activision Blizzard [1,873 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/companies/activision-blizzard/”>Activision Blizzard be approved (which it later was).
Given this legal commitment, then, it appears that any decision not to release Black Ops 7 on Switch 2 on day may simply be down to a lack of time to get the game ported and optimised for the console, given that it only launched two months ago.
The last Call of Duty game released on a Nintendo system was the Phil Spencer [737 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/people/phil-spencer/”>Phil Spencer reiterated his intention to support Nintendo Switch 2 with Xbox game franchises, saying he was “a big believer in what Nintendo means for this industry”.
