Earlier this year, Microsoft's first Call of Duty addition to Xbox Game Pass was Sledgehammer Games' Modern Warfare 3 - and a new rumour gives us some insight into what the Activision team is working on next.
According to well-known COD leaker TheGhostOfHope, the MW3 developer is working on a full Call of Duty project for 2027. For those of you who aren't aware, 2023's Modern Warfare 3 was more of a stop-gap Call of Duty game that built on Modern Warfare 2; adding in loads of multiplayer content from the 2022 game.
If this is true, and the Sledgehammer title does follow a new Infinity Ward game in 2026, both of these Call of Duty titles will be getting four-year development cycles, similar to this year's Black Ops 6. Given how well BO6 turned out with that extra dev time, this could bode well for COD 2026 and COD 2027.
This is all rumour at present, and until we get more information from Xbox and Activision, we should take it with a pinch of salt. That being said, this apparent release timeline does leave a question mark over COD 2025, which could turn out to be another stop-gap Call of Duty game - much like MW3.
What do you think of this rumoured timeline for the future of COD? Tell us what you're thinkin' down below.
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Maybe these studios like being COD factories, but I am kind of sad that the Microsoft acquisition didn't open up opportunities for these studios to work on something new and different.
Wonder when they will drop the 4 year old last generation and give us some advances for this current generation.
Next years COD 2025 it will be 5 years old last generation.
They should spin up another CoD studio for 2029... Give them enough time to get running and produce a brilliant game. And for 2025, just make it a year that gets a bunch of DLC for Blops 6... Including plenty of Zombies DLC.
If the hardcore CoD fans knew that every Cod game would be getting 4 years instead of 3 years of development, especially after how great this years has turned out to be, I think fans would be fine with that.
A reasonable development cycle? In this day and age?
It would be funny if Xbox signed the contract to work with Toys for Bob, so they could put out CoD2025. I mean, they did turn into a Warzone support studio for a while. It’s certainly interesting how Activision is basically a CoD factory as @GamingFan4Lyf put it. Does Activision actually make other games at this point? (And I’m not talking about the “other half” in Blizzard, which basically operates like Blizzard, same as it ever was).
@somnambulance while that's quite funny, Toys for Bob were actually downsized quite a bit so are too small to work on a game with the production values of Call of Duty... Spyro, however...
@kevinm360 Unless we’re getting CoD Kidz. Lol.
That’s a joke, but I’m sort of surprised we haven’t gotten some goofy thing like that by now.
I would love Infinity Ward to make a sequel to Infinite Warfare. Such a great effort & highly enjoyable. Shame not everyone was on board. If it wasn't branded Call of Duty, I think it would've done alot better.
@somnambulance Call of Duty: LEGO Ops
@kevinm360 Yes! This is exactly it!
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