It’s an annual staple now, so we doubt there’ll be many surprised faces reading this article, but Activision has confirmed that a new Call of Duty will release later this year. Obviously, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has cast some doubt on the viability of a new title, but it seems the publisher is confident it’ll be able to hit its usual holiday launch window.
As part of a dreadfully stuffy financial presentation, bigwig Dennis Durkin (great name!) offered the following insight: “We will benefit from a full year of Warzone driving upgrades to our premium content and incremental in-game player investment, and we have a substantial opportunity to continue migrating the community to Black Ops Cold War as well as another strong premium release planned for Q4 in 2021.”
Durkin went on to admit that the company is “conservatively assuming Call of Duty premium units are lower year-over-year”, which means it expects to sell fewer copies of both Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and its new title this year. “However, with opportunities in-game across all platforms, including the ramp up of Call of Duty Mobile in China, we do expect growth in net bookings overall for the Call of Duty franchise,” he concluded.
Call of Duty: WWII developer Sledgehammer Games is expected to take the lead on this year’s Call of Duty game, although the publisher’s yet to officially confirm that. For now, it’s fully focused on Warzone and Black Ops Cold War – a double-pronged strategy that seems to be working well for the publisher, as it enjoyed a sharp-rise in sales during December and January following the launch of Season One content.
[source eurogamer.net]
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Wow, I'm so surprised
In other news, the Pope is reportedly preparing to pray on Sunday, and some bears have been spotted carrying light reading material into the woods.
More at eleven.
Modern Warfare 2019 was my first CoD in 8 years and I loved it; Cold War has been a pretty big disappointment however and has renewed my skepticism in the franchise.
I think it was confirmed Battlefield is coming this year so at least we’ll have some options to choose from (in addition to Halo on PC).
You can't not have a new CoD every year. There's more chance of Christmas being cancelled than a new CoD not coming out.
And it’ll be a broken half assed buggy mess of a game at launch. Really wish Activision would actually give their developers time to make a great game instead of pumping one out yearly. By the time the current cod is patched and all the cut content added back in it’s time for a new instalment.
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It's a shame that, despite Warzone's success and its re-shaping of CoD's future, Activision is still adamant about pumping yearly releases. Even if it means replacing a universally beloved instalment (MW reboot) with a half-baked turd in Cold War, and forcing it down our throats whether we accept it or not.
I think we all would have preferred it if they ditched Cold War and focused on supporting MW instead
With how these companies continue to add content these games need only a version every 2 years or so and they should look into making new IPs.
Say what you want about activision, but they are the only developer to nail haptics/triggers and 3d audio so far from what i've played. The only thing missing from zombies is Dr Rich!
Think I'll skip this years one tbh especially since it's "rumoured" to be SHG's...bought cold War on launch played it for few weeks and haven't played it since Nov 29th lol bugs galore still to this day.
@ScottyG I get COD every year, and you definitely jumped back in at the right time with Modern Warfare (2019)...best game in the ENTIRE series, IMHO!
Like the article says, Sledgehammer Games is making the next one (instead of Treyarch, who's dropped the ball twice in row now, IMHO, with BLOPS4 and Cold War), so I'm optimistic! At the same time, Cold War definitely is making me think twice about ever getting another Treyarch game...
I just started coldwar a mere few months ago. They need to just chill out lol ridiculous
Those poor kids wille have to wait an entire year to harass their parents to buy another iteration of the same game. Why do they bother naming those games? It would be easier to call it CoD 2021
Slow news day I guess.
They need to take cod back to the roots
@stinkyx the first treyarch game got me thinking twice about ever getting another treyarch game. It was the one between MW1 and 2 set in ww2. I got black ops but that was the last treyarch game I ever got
@ScottyG Same here and loved i think i will start buying it every 2/3 years.
Hopefully this means more older titles will reduce in price further for a cheap second hand “rental”. Although I still need yo play through BLOPS 2 & 3 but those Strike Force missions are a serious annoyance.
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