For several Activision employees, the annual releases of Call of Duty have led to a certain weariness of the players, and the takeover by Microsoft would be the right opportunity to stop the hype.
With the acquisition of Activision by Microsoft, many questions have arisen, and some have already been answered. The main: Call of Duty is still expected to release on PlayStation consoles. Every year? There, that’s me for sure.
While all of Activision’s internal studios had been focused on just this franchise for some time, the takeover could see some IPs within the studio return. And also ease the tight flow of CoD production. In a new article from Bloomberg, Jason Schreier explains that an annual release would be called into question.
According to him, “very high-ranking employees” spoke the end of the current release schedule each year, thanks to the rotation between Infinity Ward, Treyarch and Sledgehammer. If the game is still a great success with each release, the last opus did not break bricks, and was even the worst launch of the license in Great Britain since 2008, and not in its best shape on the others markets.
This radical change for the franchise could happen as soon as next year, after the Call of Duty 2022 opus which is already well advanced. Obviously, this wouldn’t take Warzone into account, the Battle Royale which will continue to update. As a reminder, the next season has been postponed for a few days.
Source: www.vg247.com
