Rumour: Microsoft Is Apparently Still Bringing Call Of Duty 2025 To Xbox One

I think call of duty is one of the 3 gen releases we will see in '26 or '27.

Wouldn't surprise me in the least. Not only that but we don't have the gen-barriers we once had, so, why not?

I personally embrace it myself as long as current gen doesn't suffer as a result - but given the landscape, I don't see that as an issue these days. I think most devs are in tune with the way it works.

Not surprising really! They released BO3 on XB360/PS3 hardware without a Campaign, only one DLC map pack (although now 'everyone' gets free Maps, weapons etc but more 'Cosmetics' are sold) and was really stripped back to work.

With BO6, they introduced Omni-movement and that released on Last Gen hardware. That would tell me they can scale their latest game to last gen and the next release is likely to use the same engine/movement so why not scale it down for Last Gen and make it available for 'more' to play - not just those with High End PC's and Current gen consoles - there are still a LOT of gamers using older/weaker spec hardware inc Last gen consoles.

It's obviously not going to provide the quality visual or even frame rate performance as current gen Consoles that can offer 'up to' 120fps and VRR too along with hardware advances like SSDs for faster Data transfer. CoD also relies on streaming data too so maybe that 'helps' with running the game on Older hardware with HDD's...

Just imagine a current generation COD with new current generation engine.
Oh well never mind, still stuck in last generation.

Cost and return on investment really showing this generation.

I’m glad I my Xbox One is still supported in this day and age, although I’m starting to regret getting Series X upgrade seeing as how few games use it. It’s a bold strategy not making a 9th gen console with Nintendo and Sony moving into the 10th gen soon. But obviously MS know best.

It’s getting a little long in the tooth. I mean there is only so much they can do new with the last gen still involved. At some point we need a new engine with new ideas and such. I will be playing Battlefield when it comes out next year just to see what it is capable of running on PS5 and Series only.

@themightyant I don't think that's what they are doing. They probably are just building the game with last gen as a target and then they scale it up for current gen as far as the last gen consoles support it.

I don't mind keeping the game in last gen, I don't play it that often. But I do think they are robbing the devs opportunities to try something else, and once again, that's making the series stagnant.

There's obviously still a market for last gen with these types of games sure the latest jedi survivor game released on last gen aswell and they wouldn't of bothered if nobody is still playing there!

Glad to hear since I still play on a One X. It also makes sense to do last gen too if they're supposedly bringing the cod franchise to Switch 2 and developing the game with its power in mind.

Interesting in the UK Xbox all access that got you a series s or x console and 24 months GPU paid over 24 months interest free has now been stopped.
They really trying hard not to sell consoles or GPU with a console.
Was an amazing option and deal for people being interest free paying monthly and always worked out cheaper than buying separately.

Time to move on Xbox why would they want a new console now

That’s interesting, I still have and use an Xbox One pretty much every single day but COD isn’t what it used to be so don’t know if I care that much. They should probably move on to be honest.

I wonder how much of this is driven by the Series console apparently having sold fewer than 30 million units? Some analysts are estimating it could be as low as 27 million, with the majority sold being the Series S, which is not hugely more powerful than the Xbox One X. Thus, if you are developing a game with the Series S as your target console, then developing it for last generation as well makes a great deal more sense as you will find a lot more sales there, and of course, if you are making it playable on the S, and the One, it will also be playable on the PS4, where apparently around 50% of PlayStation gamers are still playing. It all does make sense in reality, but I think that if the Series had sold as well as the PS5, and the S did not exist, then Microsoft would only have targeted current generation consoles...

Not surprising at all if so considering COD is a cog machine. COD 2025 would have been in development for a good bit and planned out even before that. IIRC the court case revealed that ABK plans out marketing and makes marketing deals for COD games years in advance. COD is also the type of game that would benefit from as many gamers as possible and wants to be available to as many as possible. With last gen being as sticky as it is, why abandon it? With COD in particular it's been revealed that there were plans even before Microsoft bought ABK for it to support the Switch 2 and that device is most likely going to be close to the PS4 in power not the Series X and PS5. Probably not even like the Series S and I'd expect the Switch 2 to be about the Steam Deck in terms of power. In which case COD will continue supporting last gen for a while. A lot of games will. Technically speaking we kinda peaked and we're seeing much smaller realistic gains. Like on paper the Series X dwarfs the Xbox One, but in reality technically speaking how much different are games looking and playing? I mean I genuinely can't tell a huge difference between Batman Arkham Knight and a lot of current gen games. Not all, but a lot.

@Fiendish-Beaver I think there's a slight misconception at the end where this is a Microsoft decision. Microsoft already decided for first party to only support current gen with Redfall and Starfield. But that was before they bought ABK. COD 2025 (like COD 2024) would've been in development and planned quite a while before the purchase closed in October 2023 and Microsoft could legally get involved in these decisions. I wouldn't say the 27 million sales is making them keep supporting last gen, because those numbers aren't really that bad for four years in. Like all we have are estimations and estimations are estimating that Xbox Series is either selling a few million less than Xbox One consoles in the same time frame, the same amount, or a few million more. The Series S is maybe influencing it but development wise it's not just a raw power thing. Architecture wise the S is in line with the series X and the one X isn't. Also developers wouldn't develop for the One X solely, they'd develop for the launch Xbox One which was so underpowered the One S replaced it in most people's minds as the base model. The Xbox One and the Series S have a far larger gap between them technically (in raw power and architecture and general design). An Xbox One game is an Xbox One game. The Xbox One X just takes advantage of it's power to play them better. If anything, I think ABK's apparent talks with Nintendo about the switch 2 plays more influence or that the Xbox One is as fine for COD still as it is fornite. In general it COD can sell to more people it just will. I don't think it has to do with current gen sales beyond the fact that current gen just isn't gonna sell twice as fast. And I don't think current gen hardware is to blame, but rather last gen hardware is. It's still plenty powerful.

Will Xbox One be supported longer than Xbox Series S and X?

Honestly happy to see that level of support. There's not many all new next gen games so for those getting as much out of their xbones as possible, all the power to them!