Warzone lands free on Switch 2 and leaves PS4 and Xbox One behind with Season 1

Call of Duty: Warzone gets a new skin this Friday, November 6, with the launch of its Season 1. As reported by Vandal, Activision has revealed all the details of an update that fully integrates the battle royale with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, debuts a new large map and, for the first time, brings the game to Nintendo Switch 2 completely free of charge.

The flip side is that this season marks the end of support for PS4 and Xbox One. Warzone will stop working on both consoles, although anyone who moves to a supported platform will be able to keep their progress through their Activision account. For a community as spread out as ours, across the Americas and Europe, with plenty of people still playing on last-gen hardware, the news carries far more weight than it might seem at first glance.

What you need to know

• Date: Season 1 goes live on Friday, November 6.
• Full integration: Warzone now runs on Modern Warfare 4, with everything that implies for movement, weapons and shared progression.
• New platform: the battle royale arrives free on Nintendo Switch 2, its first ever appearance on a Nintendo console.
• End of the previous generation: PS4 and Xbox One are left out; progress can be carried over with an Activision account.
• New maps: two main battlegrounds, with Hajin taking center stage on the Korean Peninsula.

Hajin and Warzone's new cycle

The main gameplay highlight is Hajin, a large battle royale map set on the Korean Peninsula. According to the details gathered by Vandal, it features 13 points of interest that blend urban districts, rural areas, military installations and even a political prison. That variety of environments is exactly what a full-size map calls for: dense zones for close-quarters fights, open fields where lack of cover gets punished, and enclosed complexes that force squads to coordinate entries and clears.

The integration with Modern Warfare 4 is, at its core, the real structural change. Every time Warzone has synced up with a mainline entry, the meta has reset almost from scratch: new weapons, a new feel to the movement and a learning curve that puts veterans and newcomers back on equal footing for the first few weeks. For us, that opening window is the most interesting part of any season, because that is when the setups that end up dominating the server get discovered.

Switch 2 comes in, PS4 and Xbox One go out

The arrival on Nintendo Switch 2 opens the door to an audience that until now could not touch Warzone on a Nintendo console. Being free removes the barrier to entry and, along the way, expands the potential market for content creators looking for new audiences. It remains to be seen how the version performs on a hybrid machine, but the simple fact that it exists is already a significant move for Activision.

The farewell to PS4 and Xbox One was an expected decision, but that does not make it painless. These consoles are still very present in many homes across Latin America and Spain, and not everyone has the means to jump to the new generation or to PC. At least the progress transfer via Activision account keeps those who migrate from losing what they have built up, which is the bare minimum you can ask for in a change like this.

Our take

Here at the Underworld Lordz newsroom we see this Season 1 as a necessary reset. Warzone had been dragging the weight of having to support decade-old hardware for a long time, and that limits both the scale of the maps and the technical freshness of the game. Hajin, with its 13 points of interest and its variety of environments, looks like the kind of battleground that can give Warzone back that feeling of a map you have to learn zone by zone, something competitive players appreciate because it rewards map knowledge over raw aim.

That said, we are not going to applaud without reservations. Cutting support for PS4 and Xbox One leaves out a real part of our community, and the Activision account solution is little help to anyone who cannot buy a new console. We would like the arrival on Switch 2 to be more than a nice headline: if the version runs well and keeps crossplay with the rest of the platforms, it could be a fantastic entry point; if it arrives stripped down, it will just be one more port for the list.

For creators, the takeaway is clear: the first weeks of an integration with a new Call of Duty are pure gold in terms of content. Hajin guides, rotations, Modern Warfare 4 loadouts and performance comparisons between platforms are all going to be in demand. Whoever moves fast wins.

What do you think?

Season 1 brings a new map, a new console and a goodbye that will not sit well with everyone. Tell us in the team chat or on our Discord: do you think Warzone is right to leave PS4 and Xbox One behind to make the leap with Modern Warfare 4 and Switch 2, or do you think Activision has left too many people stranded along the way?