Call of Duty’s three-team launch cycle technique is perhaps seeing a switch-up subsequent 12 months.
Since 2012, Call of Duty has had a transparent improvement cycle – you get a Black Ops game from Treyarch, adopted by an Infinity Ward game (Ghosts, Infinite Warfare), after which one developed by Sledgehammer Games (Advanced Warfare, WW2). Last 12 months we acquired Treyarch’s Black Ops 4; this 12 months we’re getting an Infinity Ward game that’s probably Modern Warfare 4.
Following this sample, 2020 ought to see the discharge of a Sledgehammer Games Call of Duty title, however apparently this is not going to be the case.
According to a report from Kotaku, 2020’s Call of Duty – which was to be a co-development effort between Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software (which has assisted on quite a few previous Call of Duty games) – will as a substitute be developed by Treyarch.
This implies that Treyarch has a significantly diminished improvement cycle for his or her subsequent title, which Kotaku asserts will probably be Black Ops 5, however Sledgehammer and Raven will nonetheless be working to assist their improvement course of.
According to the report, Black Ops 5 will characteristic a marketing campaign set in the course of the Cold War, and the work that had been executed for Sledgehammer and Raven’s title will probably be carried over into it. Black Ops 4, in fact, didn’t characteristic a marketing campaign.
The piece additionally mentions that there was battle between Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software, with frequent arguments resulting in a troubled improvement, whereas Sledgehammer Games has misplaced many workers over the earlier year-or-so.
In any case, we anticipate that it’ll be an extended wait earlier than any of that is confirmed – we’re nonetheless ready for official affirmation that Modern Warfare Four is going on (to not point out that Modern Warfare 2 remaster we’re nonetheless anticipating).
Hopefully we’ll discover out one thing extra concrete about the way forward for Call of Duty quickly.
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