Phil Spencer Would 'Love' to See Call of Duty on Switch
After a lot of back and forth between Xbox and Sony about Call of Duty's availability on other systems should the upcoming Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard go through, Xbox head Phil Spencer has just tossed another piece of hardware into the mix: the Nintendo Switch.
Per The Verge's Tom Warren, Spencer said today at WSJ Live that not only will Call of Duty be available on PlayStation, but he also wants to bring it to Nintendo's hybrid device.
"Call of Duty specifically will be available on PlayStation. I'd love to see it on the Switch, I'd love to see the game playable on many different screens. Our intent is to treat Call of Duty like Minecraft."
Minecraft, for context, is available on an absurd number of platforms spanning PC and Mac, iOS and Android and Windows Phone, multiple Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo systems, Apple TV, Raspberry Pi, and more. At the moment, Call of Duty has only made it to PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, and the planned acquisition has had multiple parties questioning whether PlayStation may eventually be shuffled out of the mix.
Last we heard, Sony's Jim Ryan was alleging that Microsoft had "only offered for Call of Duty to remain on PlayStation for three years after the current agreement between Activision and Sony ends," calling the proposal "inadequate on many levels."
On Spencer's end, he's repeated that while Call of Duty will come to Game Pass, he still intends for it to come to PlayStation on the same day - but he's stopped short of saying how long that will last, or whether Xbox owners might not get other special perks over other platforms.
Still, the throughline in Spencer's past statements has been that Xbox's goal is to bring games to as many people as possible on as many
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