{"id":480643,"date":"2025-11-13T05:51:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/call-of-duty-yearly-release-scrapped-report-microsoft-activision"},"modified":"2025-11-13T05:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:51:40","slug":"the-days-of-a-new-call-of-duty-every-year-might-be-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-days-of-a-new-call-of-duty-every-year-might-be-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The days of a new Call of Duty every year might be over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/the-days-of-a-new-call-of-duty-every-year-might-be-over.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Call of Duty<\/strong> has been releasing a game per year since 2005. That means, for the past 16 years, we&#8217;ve got a new Call of Duty release every single year. Even though <strong>Activision<\/strong> had multiple teams working on the games &ndash; whether that&#8217;s Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games, Treyarch or Raven &ndash; that&#8217;s still a lot of game over a relatively short amount of time. But that era could soon be coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-01-20\/activision-employees-say-they-re-optimistic-about-acquisition\">Bloomberg<\/a>, a number of &#8220;high-level employees&#8221; at Activision are considering altering the release cadence of the Call of Duty series, and are considering moving away from the game&#8217;s current setup as an annual franchise. <\/p>\n<p>Given that the Call of Duty Vanguard sales were the worst the game has seen in a decade &ndash; and with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/call-of-duty-warzone-cheaters-damage-nerf\">the on-going issues with Warzone continually making headlines<\/a> &ndash; it seems the series&#8217; developers want some time to step back and address some fundamental problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/call-of-duty-yearly-release-scrapped-report-microsoft-activision\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/call-of-duty-yearly-release-scrapped-report-microsoft-activision\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call of Duty has been releasing a game per year since 2005. That means, for the past 16 years, we&#8217;ve got a new Call of Duty release every single year. Even though Activision had multiple teams working on the games &ndash; whether that&#8217;s Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games, Treyarch or Raven &ndash; that&#8217;s still a lot of game over a relatively short amount of time. But that era could soon be coming to an end. According to a new report from Bloomberg, a number of &#8220;high-level employees&#8221; at Activision are considering altering the release cadence of the Call of Duty series, and are considering moving away from the game&#8217;s current setup as an annual franchise. 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