CMA: How Will New Call Of Duty Games Run On Nintendo Switch Exactly?
The UK CMA has raised questions on one of Microsoft’s great promises in their jockeying to get their deal with Activision approved.
Last month, Microsoft president Brad Smith revealed that they had signed a ten year contract for Call of Duty to come to Nintendo platforms. The language they used in this announcement promised full feature and content parity.
Today, the CMA revealed their thoughts on this commitment in their 3rd provisional findings report.
As reported by GamesRadar, this is what the CMA had to say:
“We have also seen evidence that large shooter games do not run as well on Nintendo’s consoles due to its technical differentiation. One third party submitted that graphically intensive shooters may often be targeted originally at PlayStation and Xbox due to the specific characteristics of their console performance and that porting to the Nintendo Switch may require financial investment and compromises on graphical quality or the use of cloud-gaming solutions.”
The CMA also had something to say about the Switch’s potential as a cloud streaming device, when it came to the possibility that Call of Duty games would be streamed on the Switch instead of being fully ported:
“We consider that there are currently significant differences between cloud gaming and gaming on consoles (e.g., the need for an internet connection to stream games from cloud gaming services). Also, the ability of the Switch to connect to a third-party cloud gaming service provider would not make it a closer competitor to Xbox and PlayStation in the console gaming market.”
Among other things, this line of thinking from the CMA supports Microsoft’s and Activision’s assertion that these regulators still don’t fully completely understand the video
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