During Activision Blizzard‘s fourth quarter 2021 financial results on Thursday, the publisher confirmed that Infinity Ward will be leading development of the new Call of Duty game that’s set to arrive in 2022. The team – as you’d expect from the cadence and rhythm of the Call of Duty teams at this point – will also work on Warzone content, similarly to how we saw the massive Pacific expansion land alongside Vanguard.
The news comes as Activision Blizzard noted that Warzone has seen “lower engagement” over the past few months compared to previous periods, and neglected to share sales figures for 2021’s Call of Duty title, Vanguard. Call of Duty sales on console and PC have declined year-over-year, up to December 31, too. Though the company noted “player investment” on console and PC remained “well above” that of March 2020, there seemed to be general feeling that Call of Duty has – finally – lost some of its appeal.
To that end, the publisher is doing its best to sell the next game in the series as something of a reinvention, even going as far as to call it “a new generation of Call of Duty“.
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