Kotaku Report: Call of Duty 2020 Now Black Ops 5, Sledgehammer Project Ceased - News
by Adam Cartwright , posted on 18 May 2019 / 3,549 Views
According to a report published by Jason Schreier on Kotaku, Activision's plans for Call of Duty heading forward over the next few years have been upheaved due to issues with the title being worked on by Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software which was due for release in 2020.
Call of Duty is currently on a three-yearly rotation between studios Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games and Treyarch. This meant we received WWII in 2017 (from Sledgehammer), Black Ops IIII in 2018 (from Treyarch) and are due an Infinity Ward title this year (heavily rumoured to be Modern Warfare 4). As such, the next game is due to come from Sledgehammer in 2020, but Kotaku reports that development on this title has ceased and the team have been assigned to help Treyarch accelerate production on Black Ops 5.
Apparently, Sledgehammer and Raven Software were co-developing a Call of Duty game based on the Cold War for release in 2020, but tensions between the two studios led the project into difficulties which in turn led to its ultimate cancellation. The single-player content is currently being re-purposed into a campaign for Black Ops 5 (fixing one of the largest criticisms from Black Ops IIII), although reportedly the two-year development cycle is already causing issues at Treyarch due to the already-heavy overtime needed to ship Black Ops IIII in time.
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Wow. That's horrible new for CoD 2020 and anything there after. Black ops 4 already felt rushed as is, and has had the worst schedule for releasing post release content.
Rushing CoD and having a shorter development window as you get ready for next gen systems? Not a good sign.
They used to only spend a little over a year on a COD game since they were focusing on DLC and research for the next game. I don't understand what the problem is with two years. I think a lot of people in general work better under pressure so maybe this is a change that will motivate Vonderhaar and others to really deliver next time. I don't know if we will ever get a real COD game in atmosphere anymore because it seems no one is interested in making a serious war game anymore (looking at BF5 and that revisionist history crap that is taking place in the industry). I still hope they remaster BO1 and/or BO2 before Vonderhaar calls it quits. I did not like what they did in BO3 or BO4 with campaign or multiplayer. Zombies has been hit or miss in its many changes, and there's no excuse that the game doesn't have leaderboards yet.
Didn't know they still made COD.
And having trouble making this copy/paste garbage for lil kiddys. Hahahah f pathetic.
I say year because from what I understand the first year they would release DLC for their past COD and mostly just did research for the campaign/storyline universe and spent the second year in actual development.
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