NGL, kind of shocked how even this is.
I guess come June 2024 half of you will wander off for CoD 2024 and the other half will stay.
Activision typically only published 1 game a year which was CoD but that was also the highest selling game of the year.
2019/2020 were odd years because they put out THPS and Crash as well which sold REALLY well.
Oh my bad, I meant the 3rd party publishing like they did with Sekiro and Destiny.
Curious what this all looks like with Bethesda Softworks Publishing, Activision Publishing and Xbox Global Publishing.
Activision publishes Activision games, Bethesda publishes Bethesda games and XGS/XGSP publishes Xbox games.
There’s a bit of a overlap, but I guess it’s there because contracts still exist and stuff and maybe legal stuff IDk 
Agree. 
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“Do you guys not have phones?” takes on a whole new meaning now after this acquisition.
Them: I can’t play Diablo 4 on PS5!
Us: Do you guys not have phones?
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And for someone like me who doesn’t stay subscribed, why wouldn’t I choose a $10 monthly rental over $60/$70 games which would still cost me $30/$35 after trading in the game?
Some of these people out there are just delusional. Stapleton is from IGN so they get review codes for free so why are any of them bitching to begin with?
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They aint going to force 3 AAA studios to make the same IP
I’d like to think that focusing all-in on CoD every year was the old $70 way of thinking.
Under the GamePass logic, you would want one CoD spaced out nicely as to not cannibalize each other from a subscriber stand point.
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Exaaaaaactly.
Someone sees what im seeing at last.
I wonder when the yearly CoD train stops.
MW2 is locked for this year, and I imagine that Treyarch is deep in dev on CoD 2023.
Sledgehammer just shipped a game, so they would be first to be told by Xbox to ease up on the throttle for CoD 2024 unless 2024 is too deep in dev to stop at that point.
With a project 18 month window, that’s basically CoD 2024 starting mid dev, and CoD 2023 finishing up Dev.
The Unholy Hindle-Prog Pact of 2022.
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When MS have full control, which is 2023. I think Phil sits down then.
CoD Timeline:
Xbox can’t start telling studios what to do until Acti-Blizz closes which could be any time between H2 2022 and June 2023. Let’s pretend it’s March 2023.
2022: MW2 already released. $70 game, no GamePass, PS5 marketing. Nothing changes.
2023: Treyarch BLOPS nearly finished. Acti-Blizz closes, Xbox assumes control. Not sure on Marketing contract for PS5, but Day 1 on GamePass is a lock. Unsure about multi-plat status of game so deep in development and possibly already announced by this timeframe.
2024: Under old Acti-Blizz schedule, Sledgehammer CoD would ship. However, Xbox is now in full control. Strong possibility of no CoD this year unless control is assumed too-deep in production. Might be last yearly release, but strong possibilty of Xbox/PC only release. Day 1 GamePass.
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The last CoD announcements were as follows:
- Modern Warfare 3 reveal trailer: May 27th
- Black Ops 2 reveal trailer: May 1st
- Ghosts reveal trailer: May 21st
- May 1st
- Black Ops 3 reveal trailer: April 27th
So depending on when Acti-Blizz closes, CoD 2023 may already be announced for PS5.
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IW are the best COD studio, the series equivalent of 343. The other two always seemed they wanted to make other IP.
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Treyarch made awesome Spider-Man games I say give them a licensed IP, they’re used to it.
More interesting to me is the marketing rights for CoD.
MW2 is projected to be the last Sony marketed CoD.
Barring more supply chain issues, we could see a possible $249 CoD 2023 branded Series S for Christmas.
Black Ops 1 and 2 are just as good as any call of duty
Raven Software, High Moon, Vicarious, all back to making games
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