Hardly... Each COD game as an entirely new world, new characters, and a new story and all new Maps. That's not what we got with Splatoon II.
Splatoon 2 has new maps, weapons, new single player levels and a new mode. Some of the characters and weapons and maps are returning but back when I played Call of Duty there was plenty of content that was carried over between games, especially the numbered sequels.
But back to the main point. What In-House games are coming from NCL over the next year till Aug 2019? Its Mario and that's about it, no better than Microsoft. Both NCL and MS suck in that dept and SONY is way out in front.
At least the Xbox One can count on wide spread 3rd party support, not so for NCL. Hit back with insults call me names Even with the data and number of 3rd party titles planned for each system this year, are there for us all to see.
Just since launch in March Nintendo has published Breath of the Wild, 1, 2 Switch, Arms, Splatoon 2 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
Nintendo has announced they're publishing Mario Odyssey, Xenoblade Chronices 2, Fire Emblem, Fire Emblem Warriors, Yoshi, Kirby, Pokken Tournament DX, Metroid Prime 4 and mainline Pokemon for the Switch. Ubisoft is releasing Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, which of course will always be a Switch exclusive and likely had a lot of input from Nintendo.
We also don't have any idea what Retro is doing and it wouldn't be surprising if Nintendo is working with some of their third party partners like Next Level Games and Monster Games on unannounced Switch games.
I'm not saying the third party situation is great on the Switch because it's certainly not. The Xbox One pretty easily beats it for third party games, both with new releases and the back catalog. There's a huge difference in upcoming first party software and software the two companies are funding/publishing. Maybe Microsoft has a lot of unannounced games in development but we're not seeing the signs of that, everything they're doing seems to be indicating they're pulling back from game development and publishing in a pretty major way.