What’s In Store For Next Year’s Call Of Duty
By now you’re probably too busy playing Black Ops, but what does the next Call of Duty in 2011 have in store?
One thing is for certain, it will be an FPS and not an “action-adventure” game as the rumors might suggest.
Colin Sebastian analyst of Lazard Capital Markets has confirmed this:
“This [next] Call of Duty title will be first-person shooter, just to make sure there’s no misunderstanding there.”
Modern Warfare 3? Maybe. Had the Infinity Ward-Activision fiasco not happened, Modern Warfare 3 would have been a strong possibility in 2011.
More likely Sledgehammer studios will take the reins of Call of Duty in 2011. Industry sources say Sledgehammer’s Call of Duty will be set in the future and feature space Marines, a very big step for a franchise that has historically based itself on realism.
One thing is certain. Activision is not slouching either. They have dedicated even more development resources to the next Call of Duty, even more so than Black Ops:
“We have more development resources dedicated to Call of Duty than we’ve ever had before,” said COO Thomas Tippl in the Acti-Blizzard earnings call. “We think there’s a tremendous amount of appetite for Call of Duty content as well as services. We still have a large geographic expansion opportunity ahead of us. So we are very bullish on the franchise.”
Getting Call of Duty fatigue? Activision doesn’t think so, with demand for Call of Duty in 2011 “reaching all-time records”:
“We believe that the growth opportunity in Call of Duty has never been stronger than what it is today for us, particularly given the strength of our development teams and the consumer excitement and the equity behind the brand or of the metrics that we are looking at reaching our all-time records.”
“I would say there’s no empirical evidence that it has peaked and is now headed the other way,” he says. “If you look at Madden, it had a 16-year run of increasing sales every year. There are precedents that when it’s such a well-loved franchise, it can grow for years.”
Nov 9th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
i dont think activision will let sledgehammer do the futuristic call of duty in fact i think sledgehammer will fill the infinity ward boots for modern warfare 3.We are forgetting something that activision has bought bungie the developer behind halo series and who can do futuristic shooter better than bungie?
Nov 9th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
@Rabbi
Man, if Bungie gets their hand on Call of Duty 😯 😯 ………….
Nov 10th, 2010 at 2:17 am
@The Gaming Wiz/Mushfiqur Rahman
I hope Sledgehammer doesn’t make the next Call of Duty a futuristic shooter, as call of duty really doesn’t fit into that scheme. But on the other way, it would have been awesome if Bungie could get their hands on the call of duty series.
Nov 10th, 2010 at 11:23 am
@sng425
I read a little while back that Bungie was working on a futuristic shooter if I remember correctly. Can’t find the link ……..