Xbox games boss 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Phil Spencer finally gives us a clearer idea of how 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Call of Duty will perform on the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch, admitting that it won't compare to other platforms. This comes after 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Microsoft and Nintendo reacheܫd a deal to ensure Call of Duty releases on at leas🏅t one rival platform, albeit one far less powerful than Xbox's own hardware.
Spencer's comments come as part of his evidence to the FTC, speaking on the second day of the trial triggered by the regulatory body's objections to🔯 the Activision Bl🦹izzard acquisition. During the trial, almost every area of the acquisition and the gaming market as 𒐪a whole is being put under a microscope, compelling Spencer🧸 and other Xbox figures to shed more light on details that the FTC has found problematic - including the Switch's capacity to support Call of Duty.
Speaking about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Nintendo Call of Duty deal, the FTC asks Spencer whether the games will "look the same to the player" on Switch and Xbox. Spencer diplomatically answers that these Call of Duty ports will instead be of "equal or better quality" to other Switch games, not their Xbox counterparts (transcript courtesy of jou꧋rnalist Derek Strickland).
Spencer goes on to explain what he expects from these ports: "I think it will play as a great Switch game. I don't think it will look the same [as Xbox]." He also ♒says it will be compa🍒rable to other Switch games, not the releases on Xbox, PlayStation, or PC.
Of course, most of us in the gaming community had known this already, even if Xbox wasn't particularly forthcoming with this assessment. By virtue of it being a hybrid console that launched years before PS5 and Xb🦩ox Series X/S, the Switch is naturally the weakest of the bunch. Any multiplatform game that gets a Switch release has to compromise in many areas, t♚ypically through both the visuals and the framerate. That's if the game even gets a Switch port, as it's fairly commonplace for a multiplatform release to skip the Nintendo console altogether, instead targeting Xbox and PlayStation.
The FTC didn't go as far in its doubts as the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which doesn't believe that Cal𝄹l of Duty can run on the Switch at all. It has previously been reported that these ports will be playℱable via online cloud streaming, which♑ would help the games break through the Switch limitations.𓄧 It remains to be seen how these ports are actually pulled off through.