Infinity Ward: "Switch 2 är ganska jämförbar med att utveckla till Playstation och Xbox"

I ett decennium har Call of Duty-spelen lyst med sin frånvaro till Nintendos plattformar, medan de senaste delarna istället enbart släppts till PC, Playstation och Xbox. Men precis som det utlovades när Microsoft köpte Activision Blizzard King för hisnande 68,7 miljarder dollar för några år sedan återvänder Call of Duty äntligen till Nintendos konsoler i år, när Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 släpps den 23 oktober.

Under vår tid på Gamescom nyligen fick vi möjlighet att prata med några av personerna bakom projektet för att ta reda på vad som krävts för att få ett sådant spel att fungera med Nintendos hybrida efterföljare.

I en intervju frågade vi Jack Hoppus, Infinity Wards tekniske chef för multiplayer-läget, och Beatriz Gonzalez, biträdande produktionschef hos Digital Legends, studion som ansvarar för Switch 2-versionen, om den kommande delen. Hoppus började med att förklara:

"I mean, we've actually found it to be really comparable to consoles, like PlayStation and Xbox. Like, it's something that we didn't really have to design around in limitations. If anything, and probably Beatriz can speak to this more, but it opened up the door to more ways to play, to more, you know, unique controls. And if anything, it was something additive more than what do we have to take away from this?"

Gonzalez fortsatte:

"Yes. For us on Switch 2, it was super important to be true to Call of Duty... the same Call of Duty experience that you have in other consoles. So, that was always our key priority and our guiding light through all of the development. We have to offer the same Call of Duty, you know, that fluid movement that Jack was talking about before. We have to have it the same. So, we've optimised a lot for the platform, for the different ways you have also to play on the Switch 2.

You have the handheld experience is quite different from the dock experience. So, that opens the door, as Jack was saying, to other ways to play, right? To play on the go, or play on the plane, or on the beach, or on your bed, or whatever it is that you like. And also, the different controls that we have on the Switch 2. So, playing with the gyro, for me, is quite special. Like, being able to break the controllers and go pointy-pointy. That's not the technical terms, sorry! But also, you know, the mouse controls, playing with the Joy-Cons if you want, playing with the Pro Controller. We have every single control that we can have. We've done a particular tuning pass to make sure that it's the right and exact, precise way that you can control this game how you like it."

Vi frågade även hur utvecklarna hanterar matchmaking i multiplayer-läget, särskilt med tanke på att en Switch 2-spelare som använder gyro kan ha en nackdel mot en PC-spelare med mus och tangentbord när det gäller rörlighet och precision. Gonzalez berättade:

"Well, the Switch 2 is connected to everybody else on the platform. Like, you have keyboard players and you have controller players in the same lobbies. So we want the Switch 2 to be the same as any other platform. So we have the connected matchmaking, Switch 2 users, like any other user, can choose only to matchmake with their platform if that's what they prefer, but otherwise it's connected to the whole ecosystem."

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