{"id":375661,"date":"2026-08-22T04:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=375661"},"modified":"2026-08-22T04:12:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:12:05","slug":"call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-returns-to-nintendo-on-switch-2-early-tests-raise-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-returns-to-nintendo-on-switch-2-early-tests-raise-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 returns to Nintendo on Switch 2: early tests raise concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/call-of-duty-mobile-for-pc.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Call of Duty<\/a> is coming back to Nintendo. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has been confirmed for <strong>Nintendo Switch 2<\/strong>, and it launches on October 23, 2026. That makes it the first Call of Duty release on a Nintendo system since <a href=\"https:\/\/call-of-duty-ghosts.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Call of Duty: Ghosts<\/a> showed up on Wii U back in 2013.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Modern Warfare 4 is also the first game released under Microsoft\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/nintendo-switch-2-will-receive-support-from-microsoft-according-to-phil-spencer-himself\" rel=\"noopener\">10-year deal<\/a><\/strong> with Nintendo, the one that promised same-day launches with Xbox and the same features across both versions. Early beta previews back that up pretty well: near-steady 60fps in both docked and handheld play, plus cross-play, DLSS, and Joy-Con 2 mouse support.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a catch, and it sounds pretty obvious once people put it on a TV. Testers have pointed to soft image quality, short draw distance, muddy textures, and noticeable <strong>pop-in<\/strong>. Even so, some of those same early impressions say it looks better in handheld and is a pretty impressive technical result for the hardware.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Multiplayer seems to be where the Switch 2 version holds up best. The campaign, maybe less so. One early test mentioned regular <strong>stutters<\/strong>, which means the open beta running from August 28 to September 1, 2026 might not tell you everything.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019ve been waiting to play Call of Duty on Nintendo again, Modern Warfare 4 looks like a real option. Still, the beta is probably the smart place to start.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So yes, you\u2019ll be able to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on Nintendo Switch 2, and you won\u2019t have to wait until <strong>October 23, 2026<\/strong> to get a feel for it. The beta lands first.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call of Duty is coming back to Nintendo. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has been confirmed for Nintendo Switch 2, and it launches on October 23, 2026. That makes it the first Call of Duty release on a Nintendo system since Call of Duty: Ghosts showed up on Wii U back in 2013. Modern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-returns-to-nintendo-on-switch-2-early-tests-raise-concerns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 returns to Nintendo on Switch 2: early tests raise concerns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":375660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-375661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375662,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375661\/revisions\/375662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375661"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=375661"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=375661"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=375661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}