Bloomberg: There will be no new Call of Duty in 2023

Previous rumors have already indicated a change in Activision’s strategy regarding the Call of Duty franchise. So they will Membership Form Consider the new Call of Duty arriving later this year and there will be too to speak It is discontinuing the annual release of new parts in the franchise.

The latter is now back, via a message on Bloomberg† There, Jason Schreyer wrote that Activision – even before the acquisition by Microsoft – decided to postpone the game that was planned from 2023 to 2024. This means that a year will be skipped for the first time since 2005.

According to Schreier, who spoke to various sources, Call of Duty: Vanguard was the cause. The game didn’t perform as well as expected, and Activision’s top executives have some concerns about the annual segments, which would undo each other.

To compensate, we can expect a new free game in 2023 and a lot of content will be released for both Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2. It’s not clear exactly what this free game is. Maybe this is a file New mobile game He goes.

None of this has been officially confirmed, but given that Schreier is quite reliable, this seems very reasonable.