This hasn’t been the very best 12 months for Call of Duty, with gross sales for Black Ops 7 faltering in comparison with 2024’s Black Ops 6. Xbox Recreation Studios head Matt Booty touched on this 12 months’s installment of the navy shooter collection, and though he did not tackle gross sales numbers straight, he did acknowledge the hardships of the franchise’s annual mannequin.
Chatting with Variety, Booty stated that “delivery a serious franchise like clockwork yearly is a very tough process, and I’m actually pleased with what the staff did to maneuver the franchise ahead in that means.”
A brand new Call of Duty recreation has been launched yearly for the reason that franchise’s starting in 2003, and it would not seem that Xbox-owned writer Activision will cease this sample any time quickly. The one change to the discharge mannequin is that the collection will now not launch back-to-back installments of the identical subseries, as Trendy Warfare and Black Ops have each carried out.
Even with Black Ops 7’s shortcomings, Booty states that the title is “one of many most-played video games on Xbox” and he stays “actually pleased with what the staff did, when it comes to function innovation, shifting the franchise ahead.”
The Xbox staff additionally acknowledged that Call of Duty was the highest franchise on Xbox Recreation Cross when it comes to player-count and hours performed, though this is applicable to the collection as a complete, not simply Black Ops 7.
Booty additionally emphasised that, in regard to any Call of Duty title, it is “not simply in regards to the launch” but in addition in regards to the ongoing seasonal content material that follows. Black Ops 7 Season 1 launched earlier this month, including new weapons, maps, and integration with Warzone.
In the identical interview, Booty additionally touched on the upcoming Call of Duty film, which he expressed confidence for.