Activision has Call of Duty games ‘planned out through 2027’
Activision currently has several years of Call of Duty releases planned out.
That’s according to Activision president Rob Kostich, who discussed Call of Duty’s first 20 years, and where the series might go in the future, in an interview with GamesBeat.
With an annual release every year for the past two decades, Call of Duty has visited a number of different time periods, with varying degrees of success.
While it initially focused on World War 2, Call of Duty really took off with the launch of the Modern Warfare sub-series. The popular Black Ops games have centred on the Cold War era as well as near future settings, while Infinite Warfare was set in the far future.
Kostich said Activision has learned from every game in the series, with titles taking place in contemporary or near future settings generally hitting the “sweet spot”.
“We’re constantly in our planning phase, our long-term planning phase,” he said. “Right now, we have games planned out all the way through ’27 for the things that we’re working on.”
He added: “Look, we’ve learned. I think we’ve done a lot of games in the future. We probably went as far there as we possibly could. We made some of the games in the past. You start to see the sweet spot over time and what really resonates with the community.
“You see things like the Modern Warfare and Black Ops franchises are really popular. We’ve certainly had some other games that have done really well, like the original World War II game from Sledgehammer in 2017 did really, really well as well.
“It’s a balance, I think most importantly, that we feel like we actually need to provide good differentiated experiences, good things for people to get in, and feel like they’re experiencing new kinds of fun.”
Kostich said the
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