{"id":652080,"date":"2025-12-24T07:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/652080\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:54:14","slug":"rumour-call-of-dutys-nintendo-release-is-apparently-on-target-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/652080\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Call Of Duty&#8217;s Nintendo Release Is Apparently On Target For 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Call of Duty Warzone\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8b372b96a42be\/call-of-duty-warzone.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/call-of-duty-warzone.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"562\" alt=\"Call of Duty Warzone\"\/><\/a> Image: Activision<\/p>\n<p>Following a rumour last week about Bethesda&#8217;s <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/starfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starfield<\/a> coming to the Switch 2 next year, there&#8217;s now been a supposed update about the Nintendo version of <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/call_of_duty_ghosts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Call of Duty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Windows Central executive editor Jez Corden, the &#8220;first&#8221; Call of Duty Switch release is &#8220;nearly done&#8221; and could be launching in just a matter of months. He goes on to mention how it&#8217;s definitely &#8220;on the way&#8221; and has <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JezCorden\/status\/2003179459936145530\">apparently been &#8220;hitting milestones&#8221;<\/a>, so a 2026 release window looks like a possibility.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p>The first CoD Switch version is nearly done and launching in a few months\u2014 Jez (@JezCorden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JezCorden\/status\/2003171421879460027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our colleagues at <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2025\/12\/rumour-xbox-nearly-done-with-first-version-of-call-of-duty-for-nintendo-switch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Pure Xbox<\/strong><\/a> have shared their thoughts about what this release might even be:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to guess this probably relates to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/call_of_duty_warzone_2_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Call of Duty: Warzone<\/a> \u2014 the ever-evolving free-to-play experience \u2014 rather than a port of Black Ops 7 that may get in the way of a potential Call of Duty mainline release in late 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2022\/12\/microsoft-enters-10-year-commitment-to-bring-call-of-duty-to-nintendo-platforms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original 10-year deal<\/a> was made to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo platforms, there have been multiple reports about how it&#8217;s still on the way. Most recently, in November, some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/11\/call-of-duty-dev-sledgehammer-games-seeking-talent-with-switch-experience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Call of Duty job applications<\/a> seeking &#8220;Switch experience&#8221; were discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Activision also shared an update earlier this month about the Call of Duty series &#8220;going forward&#8221;, mentioning how its development and release strategy was changing. This followed on from a negative fan reception to the latest outing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/call_of_duty_black_ops_7\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Call of Duty: Black Ops 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, this follows the news last week from the same source, claiming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/12\/rumour-bethesdas-newest-ip-is-still-reportedly-on-course-for-switch-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starfield will land on the Switch 2<\/a> at some point next year.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll see Call of Duty on Nintendo&#8217;s platforms in 2026? Will you play it if it does happen? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2025\/12\/rumour-xbox-nearly-done-with-first-version-of-call-of-duty-for-nintendo-switch\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2025\/12\/rumour-xbox-nearly-done-with-first-version-of-call-of-duty-for-nintendo-switch\" target=\"_blank\">purexbox.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753583769_175_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Activision Following a rumour last week about Bethesda&#8217;s Starfield coming to the Switch 2 next year, there&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[513,1207,123,270,273,53,16,15,289],"class_list":{"0":"post-652080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-activision","9":"tag-call-of-duty","10":"tag-nintendo-switch","11":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","12":"tag-rumours","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-xbox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115773470596934958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}