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The new game in the popular “Call of Duty” series, which was scheduled to be released in 2023, has been postponed. Financial news agency Bloomberg has learned this from anonymous sources.
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Source: BELGIAN
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It concerns the new video game that Treyarch – the studio behind subseries “Call of Duty: Black Ops” – is currently developing. Activision is holding it back for now because its latest issue, “Call of Duty: Vanguard,” released in September, is underperforming.
This created the idea within the publisher that the popular war games would follow each other too quickly. In particular, the success of “Call of Duty: Warzone”, a free-to-play online multiplayer launched in 2020, would play tricks on the paid games.
By scrapping its release in 2023, there would be no new “Call of Duty” game for the first time in nearly two decades. Since 2005, Activision has released a new title in the lucrative series every year. Since the series started in 2003, 400 million copies have been sold.
New version Warzone
The “Call of Duty” games are made in rotation by various Activision game studios. The new title, which will be released in the fall of this year, comes from the stable of Infinity Ward, who also created the very first “Call of Duty”. As compensation for the loss of the new game in 2023, additional content for the game later this year would be worked on. Next year there will also be a new version of “Warzone”.
Bloomberg’s sources emphasize that the changed plans have nothing to do with Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision. The American technology group pays nearly $69 billion for the computer game publisher, which still owns titles such as “World of Warcraft”, “Overwatch”, “Diablo” and “Candy Crush”.
For the time being, Activision will continue to work autonomously and its games will also appear on platforms other than Microsoft’s (Xbox, Windows), such as Sony’s Playstation and Nintendo’s Switch. Once the deal is finalized, expected by mid-2023, Microsoft could change that.
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