Activision Says All Core Studios Now Working on Call of Duty - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 November 2021 / 1,742 Views
Activision has said all of its core studios are now working on the Call of Duty franchise. However, this doesn't mean the studios are only working on Call of Duty as it is possible they can be working on other IPs.
The publisher said eight of its 10 core studios are working on Call of Duty: Vanguard or the free-to-play battle royale game, Call of Duty Warzone.
Infinity Ward is still working on new maps for 2019's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and earlier this month Activision announced a new mobile studio, that is working on a new entry in the Call of Duty series.
Toys For Bob was confirmed earlier this year it would be supporting development on Call of Duty Warzone, while also supporting Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time.
Call of Duty: Vanguard will launch on Friday, November 5 for the Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Battle.net.
Thanks, VideoGamesChronicle.
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Capital naturally flows from investments with low returns to investments of high returns. Activision clearly believes that focusing on COD is more profitable than producing anything else. But this flies in the face in the principle of diversification. If you put all your eggs in one basket, you better keep a close eye on that basket. If COD ever collapses in popularity (which it hasn't in the last 15 years despite many predictions) then Activision will be shit out of luck.
Yep, the capitalist in me totally understand the reason while the gamer in me despise the result... but well instead of complaining of other gamers paying for this and not being true gamer, I just accept it as part of life.
So basically, Activision is now just the Call of Duty company?
More like Moneyvi$ion
That is what I needed, 100% CoD.
Ok Bobby.
They should sell their other IPs to developers that actually want to make new games in those series like Crash, Spyro and Tony Hawks Pro Skater.
I always wondered why Sony never bought Crash and Spyro outright. Sony could have had Crash as the face of the PlayStation brand as a whole, at least for parents and kids. It’s not like it would have been this massive expense.
So, they've given up? No creativity, just churn out Call of Duty forever, print money for the board of directors. Instead of trying to appeal and make games for the potential 250 million gamers spread across platforms, they'd rather appeal to the 10 million who just buy CoD every year?
And still no COD for the Switch. Not that I want one per se, but like, hello?
They don't want money apparently. They're a lot like rockstar.
So......they think this is a good idea....how? I mean if something goes wrong they'll have very little way of redirecting themselves.
If an A.C goes haywire Ubisoft has Far Cry.
If a Zelda hiccups Nintendo has Mario or Pokemon.
....It almost kind of reminds me of the Playstation going all in on the biggest blockbusters and how they cannot afford to screw any of them up....except I don't think Activision would ever skip a COD year like how Playstation can push back stuff like GoW and Horizon.
Well they still have WoW but who knows for how much longer that's going to last.
And I guess diablo. But if you're talking about 15-20 million sellers, yeah, they're putting all their eggs in one basket.
Next EA will have all teams working on fifa and a couple on madden
I'm being a bit cynical, but does it really matter which is worse? They're both pretty bad for a variety of reasons.
Even if EA is on an upswing, it's unlikely it will last. Just enough to gain back some good will before they milk the base some more.
Agreed. EA has promised to reform too many times, only to backslide.
I would argue that Activision Blizzard is worse based on the corporate culture that allowed sexual harassment to run rampant within the company. So far we haven't seen that from EA, and I hope it's because they do have a batter handle on their employees and managers and make it clear that sexual harassment will not be tolerated.
Hopefully they aren't the same on that front, but it's also entirely possible that it hasn't become public yet.
I'd be willing to bet that culture and behavior isn't exclusive to Activision.
Oh, I absolutely agree. that it isn't exclusive to Activision. Jim Sterling had a good video on the subject recently.
They're also a massive company with a lot of hungry shareholders and a CEO who likes bonuses for sales. Call of Duty is what sells, so Call of Duty is what they make. They apparently figure that just focusing on CoD and cutting out the fat (i.e. anything that doesn't sell 20-30 million guaranteed units like CoD) will supercharge their profits and result in bigger bonuses for Bobby.
The FF14 team was probably under a lot of pressure from to get something out the door so the investment would start paying for itself. It's a minor miracle that the game ended up becoming as good as it is.
In Activision's case, the cynical part of me says they're just committing all of their resources to milking the cash cow.
