Call of Duty has been releasing a game per year since 2005. That means, for the past 16 years, we’ve got a new Call of Duty release every single year. Even though Activision had multiple teams working on the games – whether that’s Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games, Treyarch or Raven – that’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 “high-level employees” at Activision are considering altering the release cadence of the Call of Duty series, and are considering moving away from the game’s current setup as an annual franchise.
Given that the Call of Duty Vanguard sales were the worst the game has seen in a decade – and with the on-going issues with Warzone continually making headlines – it seems the series’ developers want some time to step back and address some fundamental problems.