Activision says not releasing Call of Duty on Switch was a \u201cbad decision\u201d ActivisionActivision regrets not bringing the Call of Duty franchise to the Nintendo Switch after thinking the console wouldn\u2019t be successful. The FTC v. Microsoft hearing has unearthed loads of information \u2013 including internal emails from Xbox chief Phil Spencer. Based on the documents, Microsoft expressed interest in purchasing SEGA and Destiny developer Bungie. With the purchase, Microsoft hoped to improve Xbox Game Pass to attract new audience members, particularly in Asia. Additionally, the studio identified Destiny 2 as one of the most popular games on the Game Pass service. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Activision still haven\u2019t sealed their deal before the July 18 deadline due to the UK blocking its proceedings. Now, Activision has given evidence at the Microsoft hearing that may surprise Switch owners. Activision blames \u201cbad judgment\u201d on not bringing CoD to Switch As first reported by Video Games Chronicle, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick discussed how the company also brought the Call of Duty franchise to the Nintendo Switch. Previously, the popular shooter games were launched on Nintendo consoles like the Wii and the DS. However, Kotick has blamed \u201cbad judgment\u201d as to why Call of Duty didn\u2019t release on the Switch. \u201cI made a bad judgment,\u201d Kotick said. \u201cWhen I had seen the prototype of the Switch, it was different than when I saw the prototype of the Wii [and] I thought it was the most extraordinary video game system ever created.\u201d Kotick continued by explaining how he was \u201cconcerned\u201d after seeing the Switch\u2019s prototypes and didn\u2019t think the console would become a huge success. \u201cIt\u2019s probably the second most successful video game system of all time, so it was a bad decision on my part,\u201d he concluded. Kotick also revealed they would consider bringing Call of Duty to the next-generation Switch once they learned the specs. In the meantime, check out our article to see everything we know about the Nintendo Switch 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Activision says not releasing Call of Duty on Switch was a \u201cbad decision\u201d ActivisionActivision regrets not bringing the Call of Duty franchise to the Nintendo Switch after thinking the console wouldn\u2019t be successful. The FTC v. Microsoft hearing has unearthed loads of information \u2013 including internal emails from Xbox chief Phil Spencer. Based on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}