Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 UK Retail Launch Sales Are 61% Lower Than Black Ops 6 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 17 November 2025 / 9,159 Views
Some tidbits about the UK retail sales for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has been shared by The Game Business editor-in-chief and co-founder Christopher Dring.
Retail sales for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 in the UK were 61 percent lower than 2024's Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, according to GfK data.
The latest entry in the Call of Duty franchise also had a smaller UK retail launch than Battlefield 6. It should be noted Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 launched day one on Game Pass for Xbox consoles and PC, but it was also available on more platforms (PlayStation 4 and Xbox One).
"Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 had a smaller UK retail launch (physical sales) than Battlefield 6 (GfK data)," said Dring.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 released for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on November 14.
Battlefield 6 launched for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on October 10.
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Are people finally sick of this franchise?
Let's hope so.
Took long enough. lol
Good. Vote with your wallet
Not surprising, sales on Steam completely bombed too. Will be interesting to see if gamepass picks up the slack here, or if people are just sick of the minimum viable product being pushed out every year and are rejecting it in totality.
There's no way GP is picking up this much slack. Last year COD hit 300k+. COD is going to take a hit this year because of Arc and BF6. They'll take another hit next year with GTA 6.
Completely agree with what you've said here, I also wonder if the fact it's BO7 has put people off. Yes, they did it with MW2 and 3 but one of the same game series one year after another, may people might just think "Well I'm still playing BO6, why bother?"
This might not be the case for diehards but casuals.
Wow is the shine finally coming off CoD?? It always amazed me CoD sells many tens of millions every release despite coming out every single year. I would have thought people would have tired of it like 15 years ago. Maybe this year people are finally deciding not to buy the same rehashed experience ever year for the first time in two decades.
If only they'd do the same with Madden so the NFL would drop exclusivity.
Would be interesting to know how much of this is due to game pass. Certainly some of it, but certainly not all of it. I don't guess we'll ever know any kind of certainty though.
Last years game had gamepass as well...... MS came out and said, they lost over $300m in potential sales (from gamepass). This year, it's also in gamepass.... and they even raised the price of gamepass which made many cancel their subscriptions of it (like ~2m less subs or something). And sales are still down 61% compaired to last year's Call of Duty. This is not a Gamepass effect,.... its a BO7 is bad, and sales then reflect it.
We don't need to guess, we can compare this years sales to last years. Both were in gamepass. So I would argue this is next to nothing, effect of gamepass. Sales being down so much this time, is just because the quality of the game, and word of mouth about it, plus other games looking more appealing (Arc Raiders, Battlefield).
Same old same old
Stagnation
Decline
Its almost like people want higher quality experiences
Not $70-100 for a 5 hour crap campaign every year
The main draw in my opinion is the multi-player not the campaign. Though I heard some are good, the campaigns have always seemed like an afterthought being even less popular than say the zombies mode even.
New video discussing Black Ops 7 underperforming is live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlHWqAanzhY
Microsoft is the only ones to blame themselves,
GAMEPASS day one don't increase sales numbers lol
Somehow Microsoft managed to destroy the largest IP in the industry in a record amount of time. Told this several years back, and I still stand by it, they are the cancer of the gaming industry. Spread like a tumor and now killing the body.
I suppose UK is a pretty big market for it, as it was always Xbox second best market?
It's important to keep in mind that this is not the first time a CoD game has sold significantly worse than the one that came before it. I don't think we can declare any sort of downward trend in CoD for at least a couple more years.
