Bobby Kotick Regrets Not Bringing Call of Duty to the Switch - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 28 June 2023 / 4,508 Views
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick during today's Microsoft vs FTC hearing while on the stand said he regretted not releasing Call of Duty on the Nintendo Switch.
"It was a bad decision", said Kotick on not releasing Call of Duty on the Switch and supporting the platform more.
Kotick thought the Switch wouldn't be the success that it was and the hybrid console is "probably the second biggest video game system of all time."
If Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition is approved Microsoft will be releasing Call of Duty games on Nintendo's platforms. Microsoft in February signed a "binding 10-year legal agreement" to bring Call of Duty games to Nintendo platforms.
The FTC argued that Activision wasn't able to make Call of Duty on mobile and says why would Microsoft be able to create a Switch version of Call of Duty.
"Literally from a high level they could evaluate what would be required or they could envision a game that they might make on Switch," replied Kotick.
Activision would consider releasing Call of Duty on the next-generation Nintendo console depending on the specs.
"We would consider it once we had the specs, but we don’t have them at present, "said Kotick. "We missed out on the opportunity for this past generation of Switch, but we’d have to wait until the specifications. We don’t have any present plans to do so."
He added, "I think we would consider it and if it was something where we could make a great game we’d likely consider it."
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It's been 6 years now. He's had plenty of chances to bring CoD to Switch. Still does lol. I honestly thought CoD Mobile at least would've been brought to Switch.
It's insane that with a 125+ million install base there isn't a single CoD on Switch.
Yup. Sony can exist just fine without CoD. Jim Ryan even admitted so. But a large chunk of their business would be lost. That being said, CoD was never in danger of leaving PS. Microsoft isn't dumb enough to miss out on CoD money.
But what they would do is have their cake and eat it too. By which they can profit from the revenue split with Sony (and even set a higher split in their favor) and put CoD on Gamepass which would condition some gamers to switch to Gamepass if they don't have to "pay" for the game.
Let's not taint the nintendo system with that garbage bobby.
For a man who loves money so much I think we can all say we are surprised he left so much money on the Nintendo table.
I'm still surprised the 3rd party support for the Switch is not much bigger than what it's now. All consoles that have +100m had much better support from other companies, even the Wii and the GameBoy, why is the Switch different?
Probably that they weren't in the mood to have PS/XB/PC version running on switch after the Wii U and going with a "wii/DS version" would need to put an actual effort with the development resources this time
