Inden engelske CMA valgte at blokere Microsofts planlagte køb af Activision Blizzard forsøgte Microsoft at overbevise om deres intention er at tilbyde Call of Duty på flere platforme ved blandt andet at underskrive en juridisk bindende aftale med Nintendo, der skal sikre at Call of Duty udkommer på deres hardware de næste 10 år.
Men noget tyder på at CMA ikke rigtig har været imponerede over denne aftale, eftersom de ikke mener at Call of Duty kan køre på Nintendo-hardware på en måde der er konkurrencedygtig. I deres dom skriver de dette:
"CoD is currently available on two gaming consoles - Xbox and PlayStation. We found that these consoles compete closely with each other in terms of content, target audience, and console technology. We found that Nintendo's consoles compete less closely with either of Xbox or PlayStation, generally offering consoles with different technical specifications, and with its most popular titles tending to be more family- and child-friendly.
Nintendo does not currently offer CoD, and we have seen no evidence to suggest that its consoles would be technically capable of running a version of CoD that is similar to those in Xbox and PlayStation in terms of quality of gameplay and content."
Det er naturligvis rigtigt at der ville skulle en masse arbejde til for at sikre en konkurrencedygtig Call of Duty-oplevelse på Switch, eller Switch 2, men er den direkte "not technically capable".