{"id":133038,"date":"2023-04-10T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-147218"},"modified":"2023-04-10T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T13:00:00","slug":"soapbox-can-we-stop-pretending-switch-cant-run-call-of-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/10\/soapbox-can-we-stop-pretending-switch-cant-run-call-of-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Soapbox: Can We Stop Pretending Switch Can’t Run Call Of Duty?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today<\/em>, Rory looks at all the doubters, then at all the ‘miracle’ Switch ports, then back at the doubters, then back again to the…<\/em><\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know who needs to hear this, but the Nintendo Switch is not an N64. It seems like a blatantly obvious statement on the surface, but with the way I\u2019ve seen some of y\u2019all talking about it on the internet recently, I feel like it needs to be said.<\/p>\n

It seems like the release of the admittedly-fairly-hideous Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet<\/a> at the end of last year has totally poisoned the discourse when it comes to what the Switch is capable of.<\/p>\n

Those aren’t a handsome pair, it\u2019s true, but cherry-picking ugly games that were likely rushed to a strict deadline, then holding them up as the pinnacle of a console\u2019s capabilities is a dumb, bad-faith argument. It\u2019s like saying the PS5 is weak because Balan Wonderworld<\/a> exists. Yes, sorry for the reminder \u2013 it does still exist.<\/p>\n

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Sure, the Switch\u2019s 2015 mobile SoC is showing its age as the 9th console generation thunders along, but in the right hands, it\u2019s still capable of pumping out some impressive results, and there\u2019s no reason why a Call of Duty title for Switch couldn\u2019t look fantastic. This thing can run Crysis Remastered<\/a>, for crying out loud!<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take that example and run with it \u2013 the game that famously brought the highest-of-high-end PCs mercilessly to their knees, now runs perfectly well on the pocket-sized Switch, retaining its fully-destructible environments while introducing a completely overhauled, voxel-based, real-time Global Illumination lighting engine.<\/p>\n

And how about Alien Isolation<\/a>, which our friends at Digital Foundry concluded looks even better than the PlayStation 4 version<\/a>? What about DOOM Eternal<\/a>, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus<\/a>, and Dying Light<\/a>, which, despite their concessions, are all incredibly impressive and playable ports in their own right?<\/p>\n