In February last year, there was a rumour floating about Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 would be released on the Nintendo Switch. In the end, Treyarch’s design director David Vonderhaar ended up laughing off a question about the title possibly coming to the hybrid video game system.
Although Activision doesn’t appear to be bringing the popular first-person shooter across to the Switch anytime soon, the third-party industry giant has seemingly gone to the extent of paying respects to Nintendo’s latest hardware. In the latest entry, players can use real money and in-game currency to purchase unique gestures. One of these emote-like actions is called “Mobile Ops”. Using this action during a match will have your character pull out a portable game system and start playing it.
According to a post on ResetEra, this portable device is apparently a tribute to the Nintendo Switch. As you can see in the first image, it’s matte black, has two analogue sticks, a control pad, shoulder buttons and four circular buttons. We would go to the extent of saying it even looks somewhat similar to an earlier Wii U GamePad prototype.
The game featured on the device is Dead Ops Arcade 2: Cyber's Avengening, a playable retro-style game from past Call of Duty entries. Disappointingly, it’s not directly playable on this device. It’s sad to say, but at this rate, this might be the closest we ever get to seeing Call of Duty on the Nintendo Switch.
Do you agree think this is a subtle reference to the Switch? Would you like to see a Call of Duty game eventually released on Nintendo’s new device? Tell us below.
[source resetera.com, via youtube.com]
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These are not the droids you’ve been looking for...
They should have called it “Switch Ops”
A Virtual Console-esque game on the Switch? That really is fiction!
Don't know whether or not this is a compliment or an insult.
Are you preparing for the olympic games with all that stretching?😐
@KingBowser86 Virtual Console-esque? Those we have plenty of. The entire NeoGeo line of hundreds of retro titles, Like 20 retro Megaman games, old NIntendo Arcade games getting rereleased, the NES games on Nintendo online, retro styled indies... heck, there's probably more things on Switch that resemble that than doesn't.
Soulja Boy now sells his crap in Call of Duty?
@link3710 And yet no VC!
Look at that a d-pad and Genesis/Saturn style one at that.
The headline of the article doesn't match the actual content. That could be any portable device. Sigh...
There’s nothing there that even remotely implies that it is referring to the Switch... It’s just a generic handheld and nothing more.
Where’s the point in stubbornly looking for things that aren’t there?
" It’s sad to say, but at this rate this might be the closet thing we ever get to seeing Call of Duty on the Nintendo Switch."
I don't know how that's a bad thing...
@link3710
Honestly, Switch has a more robust selection of classic content than the Wii/Wii U ever had. At last count, I think that I came up with about 450 games!
-SNK Collection (32)
-Sega Genesis Classics (51)
-Atari Flashback (150)
-Capcom Beat Em Up Bundle (7)
-ACA Neo Geo (100+)
-ACA (27)
-Sega Ages (11)
-Johnny Turbo (5+)
-Namco Museum (7)
-Sega CD rereleases (2)
-Mega Man Legacy 1+2 (10)
-Mega Man X Legacy 1+2 (8)
-Street Fighter Anniversary (12)
-29 NES Games
-Flashback
-Another World
Not too shabby for a console that has been available for less than two years!
how can nintendo return the favour. Link gets an m16?
Maybe it's a hint at Dead Ops coming to the Switch. If that's the case I could go for a twin stick shooter.
Its nothing like the switch – just a generic Chinese android fare – like the early GPD units.
Trust me. You don't want it. Brought it for ps4 and really regret it. Enjoyed it for a few weeks but its now, just months after release, so full of microtransactions and passes I actually view it as disgustingly greedy.
Only cod I’d like on switch would be a remastered cod 1. But even then I’m actually not that bothered
@sandman89 if they remastered the original cod they would probably fill it full of microtransactions and other bs
@BanjoPickles That's quite the list...
It won’t be missed
That's a stretch calling that a Nintendo Switch? It's ugly and the placement of the right side looks nothing like a Switch. You can argue they can't make it look too similar or they will get in trouble but it looks more like a simple handheld.
Symmetrical placement of the thumb sticks, if only....
That's the kind of game I'd never buy for my Switch, and I don't have a PS4 or an Xbox or a good gamer PC...
When the Switch Mini (Switch Advance, Switch Go, Switch Portable) does finally release w/ non-removable joycon and a proper D-pad all those people saying "it isn't a Switch if it doesn't switch therefore Nitnedo will never make one" will be dieing to pick one up just for the proper D-pad.
But this isn't a Switch b/c not only DOES it have a proper D-pad but the face buttons and thumbstick on the right are upside down for a Swtich. When Nintnedo does make a portable Switch the face buttons will be on top where they belong, the C-stick will be on the bottom where it belongs.
@KingBowser86 The VC is dead. The Wii U probably killed it. I cant imagine it is cheap to get third party vc titles. With the Wii U tanking I'd go as far as thinking most of those didn't sell too well. So I'm sure they are in no hurry to go there again. Before you start talking about first party titles I'm not sure about those either. No fees for third parties but I'm sure they still have to pay someone to port them. So no VC and Nintendo gets to save some cash.
@BanjoPickles What are the Mega/Sega CD re-releases? I'd imagine Night Trap is one of them.
To be honest, don’t care for Call of Duty. Would rather it never came to switch. The “console” shown looks more like one of the Chinese rip-off consoles than a switch, to me it’s more of an insult. Seeming like the only things you can play on these consoles are retro games
As a hardcore Nintendo COD player, I find this to be very offensive & insulting! especially if COD doesn't come to switch!
You think I want to be stuck playing Black ops 1 & 2 on my wii u!! Well I have & Im getting tired of it! Bring COd to switch Activision, So I can sell my wii u!
I'd definitely get a collection of the MW games on Switch day one!
@Liam_Doolan Yeah... "closet things" are always sad and unfortunate...
@ThanosReXXX Haha, my bad. Cheers
@Liam_Doolan It's a lazy Sunday, so you're forgiven...
So many wasteful ... journalistic... words for just one picture and what an X person thinks it represents.
@rjejr “When Nintnedo does make a portable Switch...” I guess the Switch I’m holding right now is a figment of my imagination. (I know what you’re saying, but I couldn’t help teasing you for it)
I hate to say that Call of Duty sucks and sound like everyone else, but it really does. Activision is so bad that they took Modern Warfare 1, remastered it and retroactively added microtransactions to a game that didn't have any originally. Who cares,, the Switch is getting better first person shooters anyway (Metroid Prime 4 and Doom Eternal)
@antster1983
Night Trap, and Double Switch is on the way.
@BanjoPickles Yeah, I knew I'd missed a bunch, thanks! It's starting to get annoying hearing people complain about no VC. There were only 311 titles on the Wii U, we've already far surpassed that on the Switch, and without the complaint from the Wii U about then releasing the same games over and over. Almost all the retro games released this time are ones that haven't had recent rereleases on Nintendo systems.
If only Nintendo put the buttons and sticks in this format
@link3710
Exactly! We still have Virtual Console in all but name! You want Super Metroid? Download it on your 3DS, or play it on your SNES Classic, etc. I love that we’re getting all of these long-forgotten arcade games (Sly Spy? Hello??)! Punch Out Arcade? Before Switch, you had to hunt down the arcade!
@BanjoPickles
Thanks for this list! This really helps put things in perspective. This actually is a lot of classic games so far. I'm surprised Nintendolife hasn't had an article showing this off. They should have a master list of all the Legacy games on the switch, that would be cool.
@BanjoPickles Oh of course! https://youtu.be/PNlURqgNdjg?t=8005
BLOPS4 blackout mode is so dang good. Cannot stop playing it. It's way better than pubg and fortnite.
If the Switch won’t play COD, COD will play the Switch lol
Can we stop mentioning that comment by David Vonderhaar?
He was laughing off the idea that he should be able to sit around and answer marketing questions that close to release. Not the idea of whether it was possible to run or sell the game on Switch.
Many of the guys at Treyarch are known to be huge Nintendo nerds.
If Doom, Wolfenstein II, & Doom Eternal are doable on the Switch, then I don't see why Call of Duty can't come over, too.
@Anri02 Good point. I think there's suppose to be an "only" in there somewhere. But typing this now, should Nintendo decide to make a truly portable only Switch, not just the same Switch sold w/o a dock, I think 90% of people will still just refer to it as a "portable Switch" so you better keep a copy and paste of that reply handy. If they make one. I've given up predicting what they will do, they do what they want, and just look at the possibilities. And with Switch there are a ton of possibilities. You name it, a new Switch can do it. Who knows, maybe they'll even make a Switch DS so it can play 3DS and 2DS games. No 3D though, that fad is done.
cod is trash its just filled with so many trash talking kids and even immature adults as well i mean ive seen videos of people raging over a death or being knifed it and ive used to play cod but all it does it brings the worst out of people including myself at times not as bad.
"It’s sad to say, but at this rate, this might be the closest we ever get to seeing Call of Duty on the Nintendo Switch."
The closest thing to seeing COD on the Switch is seeing the Switch in COD, eh? 🤔😄
@Quarth Any portable device that looks JUST like a Nintendo Switch..
@Wanjia BLOPS 2, on WiiU was awesome.
From today onwards, especially after yesterday's clickbait, if I see Liam in the title, I'm bouncing. I'd like to hope others start doing the same, and maybe after his clickbait articles stop bringing in comments, they can boot him out of here and get a REAL journalist in here to restore some integrity to this site. Nintendoeverything.com in the mean time.
" Dead Ops (...), a playable (...). Disappointingly, it’s not directly playable on this device."
I am confused. Is it playable or not.
>No one pressed F to pay respects
Disappointing.
@PLAYwithGregg It doesn't look JUST like the Nintendo Switch. There might be some resemblance, but to boldly state in the headline, based ona a screenshot and some random forum user's post, that Call of Duty pays respect to Switch is straight up clickbait and that's what irritates me.
It could be a tribute, but it could also just be a generic design of a gaming tablet. The article itself is saying that it could be a tribute, while the headline SAYS IT IS. See the difference?
Though i don't see why Vonderhaar laughing about the Question for an "possible Switch Port". Well Breakout could be "theoretical" a problem, if there wouldn't be other BR Games on Switch, and from an Graphical Standpoint if they want to suggest any kind of "our Game is way to technical advanced for switch... look at the Graphics" than i'm sorry, in that Case i would be the one laughing at Vanderhaar, his Team and whole Activision.
It does looks polished and their Team are pretty good designers, and that's in my opinion the only thing which rescues every year CoD's ass because if we talk about the graphics / technical aspect alone, than it still feels like they stucked in the early 2007/2008(when was MW1 released?) and for that they can't blame it on the Console etc ... because as you see with BFV - there would be way way way more possible.
Though i have to admit, i want to have this Emote... need to look where to get that. Edit: Nevermind i already have the emote...
Looks more like some type of generic Android tablet + attachable controller accessory rather than a Switch.
Is this news? More text ok
I'm actually amused.
They're winking at us, knowing full well the dissing came waaaaaaaay before the current "the Switch can't be ignored" phase.
We'll get a port later (or something), I guess. I mean, Mortal Kombat 11 just got confirmed alongside other consoles in total equality, like it was not a special occasion but as if it was totally normal, as it was always supposed to be. Then we got confirmation that Joker - not his chibified 3DS self, but the real deal - from Persona 5, the same game that was rudely confirmed once not to ever be associated with Nintendo in any way, would come to Smash Bros. And then the Crash Team Racing remake (the game that - when it came out - easily beat Mario Kart at its own then-current, eh, game) was confirmed to come to Switch, sooner or later as it may be, again with the console listed among the others in a way that shows it belongs there, which - especially in the wake of Spyro Reignited Trilogy being still unconfirmed for whatever damned reason - is once again the way things used to be and were always supposed to.
Things have changed and whoever is still convinced on his or her naysaying on the Switch needs to change his or her mind. Because while in the Wii U era the utter lack of confidence on the thing eventually proved to be common sense, doing the same with Switch now isn't merely lack thereof, but outright idiocy at this point. The Switch is here to stay, folks. Get over it.
I don't understand their thinking here. You have no desire to support the system outside of 1 game (I can only think of Crash) but you admire it enough to model it (kind of) into one of you most popular games. It's weird to me.
I actually don't care if we get the newest COD but the one thing that I would buy immediately is the Modern Warfare Remastered if it came to the Switch.
Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Even your avatar character would rather be playing on Switch right now.
Call of Duty has ditched the single player and went full forced online anyways...
Honestly, I couldn't care less whether it came to Switch now...
@JaxonH I'm pretty sure "Call of Duty" actually refers to the daily work life of the studios making the game....
They should make one for saturn: Virtua cop, virtua cop 2, house of the dead,
Area 51...love these games
@SaturnHero
Of course! Actually, I forgot to add several:
-the remastered Grim Fandango
-Ikaruga
-the Psikyo games (Zero Gunner, Strikers 1945, Gunbarich, Strikers 1945 II, etc.)
-the upcoming rereleases of Final Fantasies VII, IX, X, and XII.
-the remastered port of Romancing Saga II
-Wild Guns Reloaded
When it comes to classic games, I think that I prefer Switch to Wii U because the releases are so wildly random, and we’re seeing releases that we never could have imagined at a greater rate than before. If it keeps up, we’ll end up with a selection of well over 700 classic titles! That’s more games than most consoles’ entire libraries!
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