Activision Officially Announces Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6

In any case, Activision will undoubtedly use the smallest available cartridge and impose an 80GB(ish) download upon the user.

Not a win in my eyes, but different strokes…

We had it so much better in the DS/Wii days.

I won't buy this game or any other future title on Nintendo platforms. But I'll believe it when I see it. I don't trust Activision or Microsoft to release a decent COD port on Switch or Switch 2.

In my opinion. MS or Activision should have started releasing ports of the older games to the Switch. So they could've started to gain some trust from the Nintendo fan base or show everyone they're serious about supporting Nintendo. That's just me.

SNORES

Boring.

Either it will be a cloud version or an extremely dumbed down version. I would let them wait for the Switch 2. Though I’m curious about what they could do with the outdated Switch.

@anoyonmus MS made a 10 year commitment with Nintendo to bring CoD games on Switch.

@Savage_Joe They said they will bring it to Nintendo consoles. Doesn't mean they will bring it to the Switch.

@anoyonmus it will come to switch 2. Why wouldn't they post this? It's Nintendo related.

At this rate, we can look forward to their inevitable 2032 Nintendo COD release. Hurrah.

@anoyonmus The inverse is true. Switch is a Nintendo console

I had no idea there was a Black Ops 5.

Will probably be a launch title for Switch 2, with next year's entry onwards launching day and date with other platforms.

Probably more likely we get that Warzone game then get the annual entries on Switch 2 next year. Unless they just give us an older one. Hell, maybe this entry will be a launch day title.

Just give us the original Modern Warfare trilogy and the first Black Ops and I’m good.

Fingers crossed for Modern Warfare...

The heck with COD..... EA need to pull their head out of their @$$3$ and port BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY to Switch with full multiplayer support. That game was the last realistic war-shooter I had a lot of fun with.

Not interested in this at all. Never been at all in any of the Call of Duty games, which is why I always buy Nintendo consoles, because they focus more on fun and less on extreme violence.

wait, when did 5 happen?

Just checking we all realise that when Microsoft say they can optimise the Call of Duty experience for Switch... they mean make a poor version.

Yes, there's a Switch successor on the horizon... but it's severely unlikely to be anywhere near PS5/Xbox COD levels.

@Sisilly_G
Activision already does this on other platforms: the PlayStation and Xbox retail disc version of the last 2 CODs each shipped with a mere 70-100MB of data and you have to install the rest of the game via an internet download.

This is done because all Call of Duty games (Warzone, MWII, MWIII, soon BO6) are played from the same launcher named "Call of Duty HQ", and therefore each game is treated like a giant "expansion" to this single Call of Duty HQ "game".

@Solomon_Rambling I don't even remember 5! 👺

The sizes of these games are ridiculous, every switch hard drive would be full with only call of duty on it.

@Sisilly_G it is highly unlikely a Call of Duty title would fit completely even on bigger storage cartridges, so it would make sense not add a higher cost for a bigger cartridge if the full game wouldn't fit anyway.

@Aurumonado Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War was 5.

Theres going to be 6 of them?! I only really remember 1
Oh, and Declasified on Vita

Why was Sony so flabbergasted about “losing” CoD when they have a whole 10 years to just make their own FPS again?

Anyway NL users as usual whenever CoD is ever brought up acting like it’s gonna blow up your Nintendo console if a single game dares to get added for Nintendo again lol.

@anoyonmus because NL doesn’t cater to your ass?

@Aurumonado @Samalik @_Figo_ They're counting that Cold War entry as BO5. I was initially confused too. I remember 4 getting a lot of criticism since it didn't have a campaign, then completely forgot about Cold War.

@Arawn93 Because despite having their own CoD clones during the PS3 era in both Killzone and Resistance, the brand recognition wasn't as strong as CoD. So they tried getting Activision to sign exclusivity contracts with them to better get Playstation better associated as "the CoD machine".

Will there be CrossLoose-Support?

If COD is an Unreal-Engine game it get probably scaled down to just be playable. The download size will probably gigantic and the module size minimal to optimize earnings.

No thanks!

Wait, you actually believed them 🤦.

These games tend to have ridiculous file sizes - if it did come it would dwarf the NBA games in file size, unless they do some downsizing and compression on the assets (which I doubt they did before). Still, nice to get a comment in before the inevitable "urgh, at 320p and 12fps??!???!??! No thanks!!!" comments.

@MsJubilee I agree, re-releases of older COD would have been a great way to gain the Nintendo audience.

Problem for Activision is that some of the older games are so much better it would just shine a light on the decline of quality over the years. No need to remind everyone the old games were just as good (or better) while also featuring actual campaigns and sane file sizes.

Man I remember when the first Black Ops and Black Ops 2 were released. Had so much fun with them on the Wii and WiiU.

@Arkay I was actually stunned at how awful Blops 2 was on my WiiU. I heard so many great things about it, then just mowed down enemies that stood at site level and walked forward until another cutscene happened. I only played SP though, so probably my fault.

@Aurumonado
I think that’s how they prefer it, these are yearly churned out slop designed to cater to lowest common denominator, they aren’t made to be memorable or definitive they’re made to be expendable so the customer base buys next year’s release. The number of bright studios that have been sacrificed to keep this going is appalling, to quote Civie11 “ If you have a history of making good games that people enjoy, you go to the COD mines. If your game underperforms you go to the COD mines. All roads at Activision lead to the COD mines.”

@LikelySatan Other than Modern Warfare multiplayer with mates on 360, BO2 on Wii U is the only CoD I've ever played. I played though the whole campaign but found it all very average. I really don't understand the hype around the series, if BO2 is regarded as one of the best.

@LikelySatan that's funny you say that as I mostly played MP for Black Ops 2 and avoided the SP as it was very average compared to the amazing MP.
Singleplayer and MP for the original Black Ops was great however.

@Arkay Makes sense then, lol. I had a great time when MW 360 came out, playing MP with my buds that worked at GameCrazy. That was a lot of fun. It was also on my couch, so much more my speed (am an Old).

@westman98 : I was aware of the situation with the other consoles' "physical" releases, but not of what you've mentioned about the games essentially being consolidated into a single launcher, which is a rather ridiculous course of action for games of such large size(s). o.O

I had a blast playing the COD games on the 360. I welcome this to any and all systems.

Given the expansion of gaming and the popularity of other genres such as battle royales in recent years, is the Call of Duty series really relevant anymore, even among 'casual' players?

@LikelySatan well I wouldn't say I'm old but I am in the third decade of life lmao.
Couch gaming was and still is great btw.

i like call of duty , simple , fast , enjoy epic show , easy play

As far as I'm concerned, this will be on the successor system. Nothing is impossible, but I also think it would be the smartest move.

Im honestly not expecting this one to come to switch, primarily because it was pretty far in development when the agreement went into place.

I imagine its far more likely the next CoD game will come out and it will be on switch 2 vs switch.

Im honestly not sure what to expect though. I own all the consoles and a gaming rig, but only like CoD campaigns. Cold War was ok, but way too short. The recent MW3 I refuse to even count as a campaign. Black Ops 4 didnt even bother with one, so my hopes are not all that high unless MS was able to make some significant changes to the content.

Activision most likely has CoD working on Switch for a good number of years now, I'm calling that it's coming this year to Switch, whether it is this particular entry or not. I'd buy it.

Now?
Nintendo signed it months/years ago...

College me would have been excited, but the franchise has transformed since those days, and now it's barely even a shell of its former self.

They could probably bend the rules and put only legacy CoD on Nintendo if the hardware isn't advanced enough

I wonder if people think if the 10 year deal means anything? Because it doesn't.

While I didn’t think CoD was ever coming to Switch anyway I was much more surprised they haven’t announced it for last gen Xbox and PS yet. I could see MS, the new owners, not wanting to make a Billion dollars by selling it to the PS4 install base, but Xbox Series is barely beating out Wii U numbers last I read, they’d be hurting themselves not having it on last gen Xbox One.

But if it is only PS5 and Series S/X even a cloud version would pale in comparison on Switch. I have read enough rumors about Switch 2 that it could be close to on par w/ Series S so a port of that version should run ok natively.

Nobody I know plays them but it’s too big to ignore.

Probably find out that as part of the deal Nintendo won’t get the mainline games but spin offs like a sort of RE mercenaries

people still play call of dooty?

While I would look forward to a Blops6 on the Switch, I actually would rather see a different collection released on it so it has its own playerbase. Something like a re-master of multiplayer Blops 1 & 2 or even just the zombie maps from them would be great! Or my dream: a re-master of the online Spec Ops co-op modes from the og Modern Warfares (ALL of them)! To be honest, there are going to be much better options (for many of us that own multiple consoles) to play Blops6 on rather than Switch, but a unique collection just for Switch (or Switch 2) would incentivize players to play on it rather than the other more powerful consoles/pc.

@Samalik That says more that Sony is over reliant on third parties if anything. Your game console can function without CoD. Look at Nintendo. They can just make Splatoon popular as their “shooter”. Sony is just being lazy because they want the easier money instead of going back to their own shooters.

The last Call of Duty I cared about was World at War lol

@Arawn93 And yet, they overspend on their own projects to the point of unsustainability instead of funding smaller titles to help fund the bigger ones.

Playstation needs a reality check

I seriously can't believe they have so few subtitles they're already up to Black Ops 6. That's entertaining af

@Pillowpants COD has been on DS, Wii, WiiU...

@conditionals yeah, bad ports of the games. Care.

Please keep it for the switch 2 lol.

I hope this comes to Switch or Switch 2. Had a blast playing Black Ops 2 on Wii U up until the servers died. I don't care about visuals, I just want a smooth framerate.