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[Kikorin]

Microsoft archive to destroy CoD in just a couple of years, an achievement that seemed impossible before. Congratulations!

 

[Filben]

we will deliver, and overdeliver, on those expectations as we move forward.

 

[clarky]

More curious to see how they plan to go back to 3 year dev cycles. Unless they have a forth studio making an entry?

People don't seem to understand that MWIII and BLOPS7 only exist because they couldn't pump out proper mainline games within that timeframe post covid. Its was a sticking plaster solution created by Activision not MS.

Also MWIII was the best COD in a very long time.

 

[Hudo]

Make Infinite Warfare 2, please.

 

[vodka-bull]

 

[Tarnpanzer]

I will say that I never buy the "second" game when they do back to back in the same subseries. I skipped MW3 just like how I skipped BO7.

If your main focus is the campaign, you made the right moves there.

If your main focus is multiplayer, you missed the better games both times.

 

[clarky]

If your main focus is the campaign, you made the right moves there.

If your main focus is multiplayer, you missed the better games both times.

Yup, MWIII righted all the wrongs of II and turn out great. Not put enough time into 7 to form an opinion but seems like a similar situation.

 

[Ellis]

A few years ago it felt like Warzone basically replaced main COD in popularity and users, and now that Warzone is dying off, they can't get mainline MP back on track. I can't see the franchise dying a sudden death like Guitar Hero, but under MS management, they'll be struggling to get it back to its peak.

It also doesn't help that the past few have been utter shit games.

Nice to see Battlefield bouncing back though.

 

[Mattyp]

BF6 still didn't knock CoD off on consoles, a poor sale year for CoD is still a top selling game of the year. It's fluctuated its entire life, like people haven't heard CoD is dead before on a prior bad release..

They'll be completely fine, we need to ditch last gen, and back to back launches was always a terrible idea.

 

[Cyborg]

Holy shit! But its needed, push the change. This is what happens when there is competition and gamers let their wallet speak instead bitching here.

 

[Chittagong]

Complete bollocks.

The statement is made to sound like the thing people want to hear, which is "we'll pace out these games so that each release is meaningfully different and exciting" whereas if you actually read it, they are really only saying "we are not going to release two Black Ops games in a row or two Warfare games in a row again" which is totally moot since they have done it only once in 20 years.

 

[Calverz]

BF6 still didn't knock CoD off on consoles, a poor sale year for CoD is still a top selling game of the year. It's fluctuated its entire life, like people haven't heard CoD is dead before on a prior bad release..

They'll be completely fine, we need to ditch last gen, and back to back launches was always a terrible idea.

It's still in the top 3 on the ps5 store from what I can tell.

 

[Oixte]

Steve Jobs knew the truth. Microsoft lacks creativity.

It took them 2 years to ruin activi$ion.

 

[Paasei]

50k people used to play this.... Now, it's a ghost game.

 

[Mephisto40]

Make Infinite Warfare 2, please.

TBF black ops 7 is basically infinite warfare without the jet packs

 

[Branded]

How about you don't release CoD games back-to-back, period!

Yeah was hoping it was going to be this but unfortunately it's just the most "well duh" idea/dev cycle ever with CoD as a whole...

 

[Hudo]

TBF black ops 7 is basically infinite warfare without the jet packs

Does it have spaceship sections and the spaceship hub?

 

[Breakfast at Noon]

Call of Duty: BO7 - 2025
Call of Duty: To Big To Fail - 2026
Call of Duty: MW47 - 2027
Call of Duty: BO8 - 2028
Call of Duty: To Big To Fail 2 - 2029
Call of Duty: MW48 - 2030

So this is what they mean?

 

[Gubaldo]

Do something new man!!
They are just Bouncing back and forth. Meh

 

[Ben87fr]

Reading the word innovation when they are talking about fucking call of duty makes me laugh...

 

[Branded]

Do something new man!!
They are just Bouncing back and forth. Meh

Maybe drop a proper full on remake of the original CoD? In between BLOPS and MW releases... I know I would certainly lap that up. Multiplayer would have all of the modern day QoL features, unlocks, challenges and what not but everything else would be as close to the original as possible.

Ironsight Kar98k let's gooooo!

 

[StueyDuck]

Weren't the calls for both back-to-back Cod Titles a Microsoft decision, or at least heavily implied to be.

like MW3 was rushed out because they still had a marketing deal for Sony so they turned DLC into a full game just to fart it out and keep the "real" next call of duty for themselves.

 

[Darkkahn]

OH, NO!
Anyways...

 

[SantaC]

Does that mean it still sold better than BF6?

 

[SHAKEZ]

They should stop releasing these games altogether.