The court proceedings surrounding Microsoft’s attempted acquisition of Activision Blizzard has yielded many interesting pieces of information beyond just those two companies. One such topic surrounding the Nintendo Switch and it’s future successor.

In court, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick remarked that the publisher initially planned on bringing their popular franchise, Call of Duty, to the hybrid console, but that they decided against that after seeing the prototype.

“I made a bad judgement,” CEO Bobby Kotick said (via VGC). “When I saw the prototypes for Switch, I was concerned because they were trying to accomplish a lot with a console that also had a portable capability. I didn’t think it was going to be wildly successful.”

Of course as hindsight would have it, the Switch has become one of the best selling consoles of all time with over 122 million in total sales since its launch in 2017.

While its graphical capabilities has been called into question since the start, chances are they would’ve tried to figure something out because of the install base.

The Switch has been available worldwide since March 2017, and the newer OLED Nintendo Switch has been available since October 2021.