During Microsoft's recent earnings call, the team touched on Black Ops 6 being the biggest launch in franchise history, and now some additional context from The Washington Post tells us that the Call of Duty series has sold over 500 million units to date.
Yep, Activision Blizzard provided the news to the outlet, making this one of the most successful gaming franchises in the history of the medium. The team's latest release, Black Ops 6, has pushed the series beyond this new, half a billion sales milestone.
This news comes despite the 2024 release being the first-ever Call of Duty game to launch on Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass subscription service. Game Pass access won't contribute to this new sales figure of course, but that doesn't seem to have slowed things down too much - especially given that Microsoft is still selling the game on PlayStation consoles.
As we've known for a while, then, Call of Duty is an absolute juggernaut of a series, and now Microsoft is the main beneficiary of that success. Said success isn't just commercial either, Black Ops 6 is the best Call of Duty in a while - it's earned an 'Excellent 9/10' score here in our Pure Xbox review.
Have you been playing and enjoying Black Ops 6 so far? Tell us what you think of this sales milestone down below.
[source washingtonpost.com]
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Amazing!! Still never played a single one
@hbkay LOL. Love this. The campaigns are usually a fun rollercoaster to be fair, in the same way a massive blockbuster action movie is fun and uber-popular, but unlikely to be winning many awards.
Last one I played was Advanced Warfare which came out in (checks notes) wow 2014. I have several others through PS+ etc. and will get around to them some day. For this one in particular i would have liked to play the previous Black Ops games, but they aren't on Game Pass yet.
I've bought probably 10 or so of them. The first two and then most of the Xbox One and up era. After CoD 2 all I played was campaign.
Microsoft acquiring Activision was a fantastic game plan that is already making it worthwhile and that's just with one franchise alone.
Great news! I'm really enjoying the game. Best fun I've had in a long while with multiplayer. Still prefer Battlefield though and looking forward to seeing what they do with that.
I’m happy for COD fans but I just hope the success of COD doesn’t persuade the higher ups at Xbox into forcing talented and beloved developers such as Double Fine into becoming soulless COD support studios, as was the fate that befell Toys For Bob before they managed to break free.
@Cakefish you'd hope that Activision already has enough Call of Duty support studios, but I wouldn't put it past them or Microsoft.
Does anybody else think it’s weird to say Xbox’s Call of Duty series? I know Microsoft own Activision now but most of those sales didn’t happen under their ownership.
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