CoD on Switch 2 is right around the corner, but don’t expect Mario killstreaks

Call of Duty is one of the biggest names in gaming, but it generally avoided Nintendo’s latest flagship platforms over the years. While it continues to drop even on the likes of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, it still isn’t on the Switch, but that could be about to change.

CoD was originally promised to launch on the Switch before its acquisition by Microsoft, with the plan to come to fruition once the acquisition process had been completed. That took a little longer than anticipated, with regulators weighingthe market implications of such a massive buyout, but it did happen eventually.

Now, a couple of years later, there is still no CoD on the Switch, but new datamining has confirmed that progress is being made as Nintendo has appeared as a platform in CoD HQ‘s files.

New lines of code have appeared in the files called “PlatformFamily.Nintendo,” listed several times. It implies that CoD HQ is being primed for new platforms, which is most likely going to be the Switch 2, where many other AAA publishers have started porting their games.

With these engine-level changes now showing up, it’s likely that we’ll be seeing CoD on Nintendo’s platform in the coming months, or maybe see the first multi-platform CoD drop in late 2026 that’ll include the Switch 2 together with the franchise’s traditional platforms.

Jez Corden of Microsoft Central previously also said that CoD on Nintendo was imminent, even before these new lines of code had been discovered, while Activision itself made a deal with the company back in 2023 (per Engadget) that solidified the prospects of seeing CoD on Switch.

How this will look is anyone’s guess, but I wager it’ll be the same old CoD as it is every year, with few improvements and fewer innovations, chock full of microtransactions, weird collaborations, pop culture references, and everything else we’ve become accustomed to.

Hell, we might even see Mario and Luigi carrying laser weapons while slide-cancelling across Nuketown to the tune of Nicki Minaj’s songs. Grim.

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