Activision Has 'Existing Agreements' To Release Next Three Call Of Duty Games On PlayStation

Good, it can be a long transition to limit outcry. Get the games out the way then be done with it.

I mean this won't matter to Microsoft anyway since the acquisition won't be finalised until June 2023 at the earliest, so a lot of these agreements will be already fulfilled by that point.

@LtSarge I think it is June 2023 at the latest, as that's when the target fiscal year ends...the timing is vague, as it could be anytime between July 1st, 2022 and June 30th, 2023

@Casco I thought it was the fiscal year July 2023 and June 2024? Could be wrong though.

It's ok a Sony fan has asked the us president to step in and stop the takeover lol I kid you not

@LtSarge I think the announcement said "expected to complete in the Fiscal Year ENDING in June 2023" or something along those lines.

@Casco Ah okay, got it. Well, I do expect the deal to take longer to finalise than the ZeniMax one (which took roughly six months I think) considering it's a much bigger purchase. So maybe we'll see it done by the end of 2022/early 2023.

Supposedly this year’s COD is coming early, then 1 more plus an update to war zone (which historically speaking happens every year). Could be a year and a half until exclusivity.

@Phantasystar77 Agreed.

@Martsmall Yeah I'm sure the US President wants to obstruct an American company for the benefit of a Japanese company lol.

Yea. But it's call of duty. They release like 3 games a year.

Sony fanboys cry about everything. Didn't their president cry over to the phone last week to Microsoft saying they must honor commitments or something?

@JayJ don't break Thier heart lol

June 2023 until deal is most likely done by so the biggest games like overwatch 2 and diablo 4 will be still on playstation and those franchises get releases like 7-8 years apart, also next three call of duty's which two aren't even in development yet and Microsoft want to stop it from yearly releases, so basically playstation won't feel the impact really of losing Activision until the end of this gen or start of next gen.

Also why do they need to make another warzone? Just make it like fortnite and stay one game with yearly update's for life

I'm assuming all call of duty games will be on PS until I hear otherwise. Phil will get his "desire" and continue to sell COD to the millions of PS users every year.

Notice how every xbox employee talking about this deal mentions gamepass and not the series x? It's almost like the deal wasnt about exclusivity.

I am still betting once these two years worth of agreements are done, the only new Call of Duty content PlayStation will see is Warzone iterations.

I personally don’t feel like the Call of Duty exclusive question matters as much with Xbox and exclusives as other aspects of this deal. I don’t mean that Call of duty is a small thing… it’s huge! But what’s more valuable to MS early on (before they sort out this contract stuff) is getting control of the studios and taking off all of the support studios from COD. Letting Toys for Bob, Raven, and others create new IPs or work on sequels to long lost franchises is going to be the more immediate boost to Xbox exclusives (within a few years) as they sort out the Call of Duty stuff over the course of this generation. Kinda like how Arkane released Deathloop and now is already creating new games in Redfall and whatever the Deathloop studio is starting.

Personally I want more Tony Hawk and for Toys for Bob to do some sort of platformer (classic mascot or new ip idc)

Sounds about right to me.
The only thing that will suck is that COD 2022 and 2023 probably won't be on Game Pass day one as Sony sneak that "No Game Pass small print" into all their marketing deals, as leaked with Resident Evil Village.

So overall, I think we'll be looking at COD 2023 as the last mainline on PlayStation consoles, and Warzone 2 will be fully supported on PS5 for the full generation.

@UltimateOtaku91
COD has 3 teams, each on a 3 year development cycle.
Vanguard was by Sledgehammer Games.
Infinity Ward are on COD 2022.
Treyarch are on COD 2023.

They want a new Warzone because they want to move on to next-gen only, so they aren't forced to develop for a silly amount of systems, unlike Fortnite which is scaled from mobile up to consoles/PC.

Not really excited to find out when we can, at the earliest, stop half the fan base from enjoying these yearly games. All I want to know is when are they all coming to my gamepass?

@Phantasystar77 what gets me is the amount of crying they do over games they don't play (allegedly).

I'm betting the 'last' CoD to release gets either supported indefinitely as a Live service MP game that eventually goes F2P or they release a dedicated F2P MP - like Halo.

Either way, when MS take-over, the MP will end up F2P.

Sales are not MS's biggest interest, Subscriptions are. CoD isn't going to be the 'biggest' seller when the majority are playing 'free' on Game Pass. Free to play fits MS better too...

@JayJ @Martsmall you never know with sleepy Joe he doesn’t know what’s going on at the best of times 🤣

It makes sense, Activision makes these things in batches, the legal parts are bound to be the same

Aslong as we get them day 1 on gamepass...don't care

I hope the next call of duty game, brings justice to the genre. Still having doubts about wich call of duty game i should buy, cold war or vanguard.

With how popular the franchise is on all platforms if MS did just make them exclusive then I doubt any increased sales on Xbox would counteract the loss of Playstation sales.

Activision has been a successful multi-platform publisher, and it makes sense to keep it that way. That way if Playstation continues to be the dominant platform this generation they can still sell their games.

After the next 3 though then it may be Xbox exclusive.