New Call Of Duty Games Teased After CoD: Vanguard And Warzone Can’t Match Last Year’s Numbers

As part of Activision Blizzard’s latest earnings report this week, the company gave an update on how its various business are performing, and Call of Duty sales on PC and console came up short. The company confirmed this while also teasing plans for “new, unannounced” Call of Duty games (more on that later).

The publisher said “net bookings,” which is a measurement of the net amount of products and services sold digitally and physically, declined year-over-year for the Call of Duty series on console and PC during the fourth quarter. The publisher attributed the downturn to “lower premium sales” for Call of Duty: Vanguard compared to the same quarter in 2020 with Black Ops Cold War. Additionally, Call of Duty: Warzone saw “lower engagement” during Q4, which negatively impacted results, Activision Blizzard said.

All of that said, Activision Blizzard said “in-game player investment” on console and PC for Call of Duty stayed “well above” the levels it reached following the launch of Warzone in March 2020. And as a further point of context, even though Vanguard sales were down compared to Black Ops Cold War, Vanguard was the best-selling game in the US during 2021.