"Sales underperformed our expectations, and it's clear that for a portion of our audience, the space setting just didn't resonate," said Activision Blizzard chief operating officer Thomas Tippl during a February earnings call with investors. for seven straight years, according to data from NPD Group.īut in February, during its quarterly earnings call, Activision revealed sales of the latest release, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, did not perform as well as projected.
It has been the top selling PC and console game in the U.S. The Call of Duty franchise remains a flagship for Activision.
The long-running series ditched modern combat in favor of warfare taking place during World War I. That fueled a surge of first-person action games taking place either in modern times or the future.Įlectronic Arts' military shooter Battlefield took a similar approach last year with the launch of Battlefield 1. The earliest Call of Duty video games spent much of the experience recounting events of World War II, until 2007 with the launch of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Little has been revealed about the game, beyond a teaser image on the Call of Duty website announcing a "worldwide reveal" on April 26. Video game publisher Activision Blizzard confirmed Friday the next chapter in the blockbuster video game franchise will take place during World War II, where the series got its start. After years embracing modern warfare, Call of Duty is revisiting old battlegrounds.
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