Activision: Call of Duty 2023 Development is 'Proceeding Well' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 August 2023 / 4,188 Views
Activision Blizzard in a quick update on Call of Duty 2023 said development on the game is "proceeding well" and is set to launch in fourth quarter, which runs from October to December.
"Call of Duty approaches its 20-year anniversary in October with around 90 million monthly players, with over half of all engagement on the mobile platform," said Activision in its latest earnings report.
"Activision’s teams are hard at work on major new installments in the franchise slated for the fourth quarter. Development of this year's full annual premium release on PC and console is proceeding well.
"Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile, an ambitious, internally developed mobile game tightly integrated with the PC and console experience, continues to progress through regional testing."
It has been reported Call of Duty 2023 will be a continuation of 2022's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 with Sledgehammer Games leading development.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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I doubt I'll ever get my hoped-for CoD: Infinite Warfare 2, sadly. I enjoyed that game.
I'd really love if they did the back compat enhancements to the back catalogue here.
I hope MS can do something good with the franchise, especially with the zombie modes. It's been getting stale and I haven't cared for this franchise in a long time.
They need to make something new. Stop milking it.
Why? They're selling tens of millions of copies of every year's release. That means people want them, and Activision is incentivized to provide what those people want.
All people want is that feeling of owning and getting the next win. Most people playing these games probably stress more than they actually have fun with. As with most competitive games. But the call of duty franchise has been boring for long, they can't even come up with ways to make it feel fresh.
The thing we don't know is, if the Nintendo contract include this title or only start for a latter entry like next year or in 2025 and then continue for 10 years after that point?
Cause the contract had a day and date clause (if I remember correctly) and I'm not seeing how it's possible to do a port in like 2-3 months.
It's entirely possible ABK has decided to expand CoD to Nintendo, even if the deal falls through, since Bobby Kotick indicated they'd darshed-up by not supporting Nintendo. Though they might approach it differently independently than under Microsoft (they might wait for Nintendo's next hardware, or might release CoD Mobile on Switch, as two examples). So they may already have one or more teams working on Switch, either due to sufficient confidence in the acquisition going through, or because they're going to do it no matter what.
As for the two year cycle, I bet they'll look hard at that, but they first have to develop a plan for supporting a game for two years rather than for one. So they first need to have a product that they feel is strong enough for a two-year cycle, and a plan in place for two years of post-launch support. And we don't know if they think CoD 2023 is that game or not, you know?
But once they do, it'll be genius. Since Microsoft has Halo, Gears, Doom, Quake, Prey, Wolfenstein, and more that they could release in CoD's "off" year. That way Microsoft's other big shooter franchises don't have a new CoD to compete with. Them trading off with each other just makes so much sense, IMO.
They need to make the battle pass more fun and less of a chore. I get that you pay for it and you can earn your money back when you complete it but they should really look at the amount of time needed to complete it because it's way too long imo. I slogged my way through one season, paid for the second but gave up after a couple of weeks when their map rotation was crap (why the hell can they not have a list with all the maps and you can choose) and I lost interest.
CoD was my goto game for filling time, now its the last one on my list.
It's late July and the game is not even ready for a showcase... and it's supposed to release by December? The game will be extremely rushed imo.
