Agreed. The Switch should be capable of running it too.

Still. Anyone who hopes for 3rd party games on Switch was fooling themselves. Buy a different platform if you care about such things.

I still think they should try to port the multiplayer component to Switch, they did the same thing with BO3 on PS3 and X360. But maybe Splatoon 2 success will change their mind.

Sad, but not unexpected.

Previous CoD games launched on Wii (compared to the other versions) and Wii U failed to sell well, and the Call of Duty games launched on handhelds also performed very poorly.

COD on Wii still sold enough to be profitable. If it didn't, they wouldn't have made 5 of them.

Maybe that's why I've put that "compared to the other versions"

COD on Wii does demonstrate though that it doesn't need to sell as much as other versions to be worthwhile.

It's a bummer as I was looking forward for COD on the go, but realistically speaking, it shouldn't come as surprise. They've been burnt by the sales on the Nintendo systems in the past, so they're taking wait and see approach. If the Switch's sales will stay on the current level and there's money to make on that system, those big franchises will come, regardless the technological disadvantage. All Nintendo needs to do now, is to keep pumping those big in house titles, to keep the momentum going and by the looks of it, this is what they're doing.

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The big testimony of how well the 3rd party games can potentially sell on the Switch, will come with the Skyrim and FIFA. I'm convinced that Skyrim will perform well, but despite what people think, FIFA sales will be the best indicator of things to come. It's insanely popular in Europe, where for Nintendo, European market is nowhere near as big as American and FIFA/sports gamers in general, are the target audience for FPS developers. If it can perform well on such niche, like for Nintendo, market, it will perform great with other, even more popular, titles. 

Wii was 2 gens ago and things have changed.

Also, with Switch they have to develop a game to run on both handheld and docked mode, and while Epic says that is very simple with their EU4 engine, Activision doesn't use it for their CoD games, so it could be like developing 1.5 games at once for just one platform where good sales aren't guaranteed.

It's a pitty, and it's sad that they aren't even going to try it, but I don't blame them.

I understand why they're wary, I simply took issue with the implication that COD on Wii is an example of unviability. They made 5 of them, they wouldn't have kept making them if they're weren't paying off.

Yep... the less games the better right....