Call of Duty would stay on PlayStation thru 2027 if Sony accepts offer

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Damn, look at how many studios work on that shit every year and thats just MW2, not Warzone.

They really expect us to think microsoft is gonna walk into Activision HQ and dismantle all those studios to sell more Spyro and Crash games?
 
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Remember_Spinal said:
There was an expectation that Microsoft would untether studios like Toys for Bob and Vicarious Visions etc from the Call of Duty assembly line and have them make more crash and tony hawk games etc. Phil Spencer even alluded to doing it himself

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Both Vicarious Visions and High Moon were destiny support studios. I’d honestly put them on Halo. They have experience with Bungie’s previous engine and some experience with live service content pipeline just by proxy of working with Bungie.

Rumor is that vicarious is taking that experience and attaching it to a pve CoD game.

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I don’t think we will see yearly CoD anymore. Warzone 2 will carry the IP indefinitely. I don’t see the want for it anymore. The players will be in Warzone.

Best case is that all these teams are spread to work on a diverse lineup of software and not just CoD. I’m leaning towards these studios being gut and shuttered tho.
 
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Remember_Spinal said:
There was an expectation that Microsoft would untether studios like Toys for Bob and Vicarious Visions etc from the Call of Duty assembly line and have them make more crash and tony hawk games etc. Phil Spencer even alluded to doing it himself

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Eh.. "we are excited about old IPs" is all he really said. And he implied they'd work on them by "adding resources".

Pretty tame comment... and Toys for Bob could make a Crash game.. and.. how would that be a change? For all we know they are working on one now. Having a bunch of studios on your credits doesn't mean everyone on that studio is supporting COD. They released a Crash game in 2020.

I do think those comments are red flags either way though.. same with using their fancy new studio for a Perfect Dark game.

Phil might play Destiny 2 all day but he's pretty out of touch with thinking these old IPs are worth a damn.
 
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Vertigo said:
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Both Vicarious Visions and High Moon were destiny support studios. I’d honestly put them on Halo. They have experience with Bungie’s previous engine and some experience with live service content pipeline just by proxy of working with Bungie.

Rumor is that vicarious is taking that experience and attaching it to a pve CoD game.

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I don’t think we will see yearly CoD anymore. Warzone 2 will carry the IP indefinitely. I don’t see the want for it anymore. The players will be in Warzone.

Best case is that all these teams are spread to work on a diverse lineup of software and not just CoD. I’m leaning towards these studios being gut and shuttered tho.
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I say theres still far too much money to be made in annual CoD titles for them to completely drop it. They are still selling them for 70 dollars for the unforeseeable future and they are the biggest sellers every year, similar to FIFA and 2k.

Too much money to be left on the table and i also think skipping years will give other big new FPS titles more room to grow when theres no CoD market saturation. A lot of CoD players live for new titles every year, once pattern stops who knows what might break. Mindshare is a fickle thing
 
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Wanting to see the other studios work on other games isn't an expectation but more of a hope because under Microsoft, COD can eventually be a platform where they just release content for COD instead of wasting so many studios on having to release a yearly product. This is my hope. For COD to be a platform with two or three studios working on it while the rest can go do other stuff.
 
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peter42O said:
Wanting to see the other studios work on other games isn't an expectation but more of a hope because under Microsoft, COD can eventually be a platform where they just release content for COD instead of wasting so many studios on having to release a yearly product. This is my hope. For COD to be a platform with two or three studios working on it while the rest can go do other stuff.
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Dude, CoD is moving away from annual releases, Microsoft or no Microsoft. Activision announced that themselves a while ago.

That said, you're not gonna see all these studios magically freed up and working on new and/or legacy IP. Some will stay, sure, but the rest will be gutted, and most of the talent will probably leave for studios making the shooters they specialize in.
 
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Dude, CoD is moving away from annual releases, Microsoft or no Microsoft. Activision announced that themselves a while ago.

That said, you're not gonna see all these studios magically freed up and working on new and/or legacy IP. Some will stay, sure, but the rest will be gutted, and most of the talent will probably leave for studios making the shooters they specialize in.
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I don't see them moving away from annual releases for a while. I know people believe they're skipping 2023 or adding to MW 2. I don't. I believe there will be a new COD game next Fall but smaller and thus cheaper. But not to where it's skipping a year. And even bi-annual is not what im hoping for. I want a platform like Sea of Thieves. Just release the base game and add to it for the rest of the generation and then build a new one for when the following generation starts.

I'm not expecting every studio to be freed up but I do believe that a few of them will be because having them all on COD is a waste in my opinion.
 
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So how many units has xbox series actually sold?
Didnt Xbox 1/X sell like 55million units?
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according to m$, they sold 57M Xbox One. according to other sources it sold around 51-55M. so SX and SS best case scenario sold 12M. it is already 2:1.
 
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peter42O said:
I don't see them moving away from annual releases for a while. I know people believe they're skipping 2023 or adding to MW 2. I don't. I believe there will be a new COD game next Fall but smaller and thus cheaper. But not to where it's skipping a year. And even bi-annual is not what im hoping for. I want a platform like Sea of Thieves. Just release the base game and add to it for the rest of the generation and then build a new one for when the following generation starts.

I'm not expecting every studio to be freed up but I do believe that a few of them will be because having them all on COD is a waste in my opinion.
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They could even release traditional CoD arena pvp as f2p and I want to say that’s probably the best option. However, that would also mean settling on a setting and era. It’s sorta exclusively a CoD conundrum.
 
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I love the sourcing of the PS4/PS5 sales.

Pulled right from MY ASS!
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BOOM! BOOM!
 
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Come on... SOCOM, MAG, Resistence and Killzone all sat in the wings. Not as "COD killers" anymore but they offer their own play styles and could cover single player and multiplayer online spaces which Sony need.

To say nothing of 3rd party revival attempts like MOH or Battlefield, or the likes of Apex/Fortnite these days.
 
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