Call of Duty is reportedly launching on Nintendo Switch in “a few months” as Activision finally hands in its legally mandated Nintendo support

Published:

9 January 2026

Last Updated: 9 January 2026

By:

Nintendo gamers will finally get a version of Call of Duty after 13 years. Following the release of Call of Duty: Ghosts for the Nintendo Wii U, Nintendo Switch users are reportedly set to get a new game in the series in just “a few months”.

According to Windows Central editor Jez Corden, Nintendo’s first CoD title in over a decade is almost done. The upcoming CoD title is seemingly planned just for the new Nintendo Switch 2 console and not the original 2017 handheld.

“The first CoD Switch version is nearly done,” the journalist claimed on social media, “and launching in a few months”. Corden did not state whether this title is a port of the current annual title, Black Ops 7, or something like the constantly-updated Call of Duty: Warzone.

Corden doubled-down on his claims in a separate article on the Windows Central website, the journalist claimed that “Call of Duty will also drop on Nintendo Switch 2 this year as well, fulfilling Microsoft’s promises to regulators”.

While Xbox support has been surprisingly slim for the Nintendo Switch 2, the company is required to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo platforms. As part of the company’s juggernaut acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft and Nintendo founded a 10-year partnership that will result in a number of CoD titles coming to the Switch platform.

Additionally, as part of the agreement, these titles must have feature parity with their rival console versions. This means that if an Xbox version of the game has a campaign, zombies and multiplayer, the Nintendo Switch version must also have all of those features. Of course, graphical feature-set is not a guarantee.

At the time of writing, it is still unconfirmed which Call of Duty title will be first to land on Nintendo Switch 2. However, it does seem like the free-to-play battle royale spin-off Warzone would be the appropriate debut for the system.

With Black Ops 7 already partway through its annual release structure and proving to be fairly unpopular, it would make sense to bring their more evergreen free title to the system first. Additionally, prior reports have claimed that 2026’s annual CoD title will be the first mainline entry on Nintendo Switch systems with developer Sledgehammer Games hiring devs with handheld experience.

For more Nintendo Switch coverage, read about how Metroid Prime 4 devs realised an open-world simply doesn’t fit Metroid, but they “couldn’t bare” to restart development for a second time.

About The Author

Lewis White

Lewis White is a veteran games journalist with over a decade in the field. Starting with beloved Xbox website ICXM/XboxMAD, Lewis became the Gaming Editor at MSPoweruser before becoming the Editor in Chief of StealthOptional and Gfinityesports. Lewis later jumped to By Gamers For Gamers where he jumped to become EIC of VideoGamer and the host of the New VideoGamer Podcast prior to the website’s acquisition.

Over the years, Lewis has also seen long-form investigative pieces published in outlets such as Eurogamer, PCGamesN, Wireframe, Retro Gamer, Nintendo Life, and EDGE. Now, as the Editor in Chief of FRVR Blog, Lewis strives to bring the same level of quality journalism with interview-led content to the site in both written and audio form with the FRVR Podcast.

With a First Degree BA Hons in Games Journalism and Public Relations, Lewis has been a stable part of the British games press for over a decade, and has frequently displayed his love of Halo, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and other games pretty much everywhere he’s worked. And FRVR is no different.

See author's posts