Microsoft claims it can get Call of Duty Warzone and MW2 running natively on Switch
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I’m skeptical too. But we all know this move is only to manipulate regulators into allowing MS to eventually pull CoD away from PS.
I mean, sure, Activision could do it rn if they wanted to, thing is, it's not going be near to current gen standard or even last gen versions because the hardware differences are big enough, so by that point why would anyone would want to play such an awful version?
No, Activision said it didn't port due to lack of financial justification (it would take a top of the line port-house to do, didn't seem to fit the profile of other successful Switch games and by the time it was coming out there would be a new CoD on the way and no interest in the old one.) Microsoft isn't doing it to be profitable, but instead in order to get the deal through. Thus they will do it regardless of whether it actually pays for itself or not.So... The Activision development team has said they can't port to the switch due to hardware limitations, but Microsoft, whose studios can't release a marquee franchise with substantial improvements over last-gen efforts (Halo Infinite) says they can?
Other than the name the Wii U shared little with the Wii. BC was done through emulation, IIRC with the system being much more similar to a suped-up 360. It also wasn't portable.
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The switch GPU is the equivalent of a 9800GT. That's a desktop card from 2008.
Damn I knew it was disgustingly dated, but I didn't know it was that underpowered.
That's because it isn't.
NVIDIA Switch GPU 20nm Specs
NVIDIA GM20B, 768 MHz, 256 Cores, 16 TMUs, 16 ROPs, 4096 MB DDR4, 1600 MHz, 64 bit
The Switch is way more powerful than a 9800GT.
We're also comparing completely different architectures, which makes this a mute point.
It is pretty close to GeForce 830M... they are the same Maxwell arch so share the same feature set.
900m is Klepler already.
But take in mind that while being similar config the Switch runs at way lower clocks... even docked it is more like 60-70% of 830M.
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It is even stronger that the 9800GTX+... they are not comparables.
It is a Maxwell with 256 shaders units like the cut down GM108 found in 830M.
Switch GPU due the lower clock will probably performance around 60-70% of 830M full clocked... it can go down to 25-35% undocked.
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They could get them running, but they’d be significantly downgraded from the rest of the versions and/or run like total garbage.
Again: ABK don't need MS for this. They can do it by themselves. This won't fly.
