Officials from Microsoft have assured fans that theCall of Dutygames that come to Nintendo Switch will run with a high degree of technical performance and they should not be worried about poor visuals or frame rates due to the console’s hardware limitations. Nintendo Switch players are sure to be excited to be able to playCall of Dutygames on their handheld consoles on the go without any major issues.
“Impossible Ports” are games that are brought over to a previous generation console or to a system with more limited hardware in terms of graphical processing. For example, many fans dubThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunton Nintendo Switchan “Impossible Port” because the game runs well on the system, despite the Switch’s less powerful graphics processor. In the same vein, theCall of Dutygames are quite demanding of GPUs, which means that the developers will have to work some sort of technical magic in order for the games to run well on Nintendo Switch.
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Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft, answered some questions relating to the performance ofCall of Dutygames on Nintendo Switch, saying that the games will run as people expect — to a high technical standard. Microsoft has entered into a 10-year agreement with Nintendo to bring theCall of Dutygames to the console, and Switch players are wondering if this means that the games will be dialed down quite a bit to run on the Switch or if Nintendo is planning on releasing a next-gen console soon. With therumor ofCall of Duty 2024coming to previous gen consoles, though, it seems like it might be the former rather than the latter.
There is a lot of movement going on in the corporate world surroundingCall of Duty, of course.Activision’sCall of Dutydeal with Sony is coming to an end, which has many ramifications due to the success that theCall of Dutyfranchise has had on PlayStation consoles. Also, Microsoft is still pushing to buy Activision Blizzard for a whopping $68.7 billion, which would be the biggest gaming deal in history.
AsModern Warfare 2andWarzone 2jump into their second seasons of multiplayer, more and more players are getting their hands on these games. TheCall of Dutyfanbase continues to grow, and once the franchise comes to the Nintendo Switch, it will increase in size exponentially.
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