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It looks for illustration caller Call of Duty games will nary longer beryllium coming to last-gen platforms for illustration nan PS4 and Xbox One, requiring franchise fans to acquisition expensive newer consoles. The charismatic marque precocious posted to societal media that nan "next Call of Duty is not being developed for PS4." The station didn't specifically mention Xbox One, but I'm not judge why a developer would discarded resources connected nan less celebrated of nan two.
Call of Duty was 1 of nan past large franchises processing for nan aging console generation. The erstwhile entry, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, was disposable for conscionable astir everything, including PS4 and Xbox One.
Not judge wherever this 1 started, but it's not true. The adjacent Call of Duty is not being developed for PS4.
— Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) May 4, 2026
On 1 hand, this is nan measurement of nan console world. The PS5 and Xbox X/S are astir six years aged astatine this constituent and ensuring modern games tin tally connected older consoles can limit immoderate features from each versions. It's a balancing act.
On nan different hand, nan economy is successful nan dumpster and a batch of group simply can't spend nan PS5 aliases Xbox Series X/S. This is further compounded by nan AI-fueled RAM crisis, which has led to galore value hikes. A modular disc-based PS5 now costs $650, which is $150 much than nan motorboat price. Again, this console came retired successful 2020. The Xbox Series X/S machines person besides shot up successful costs since launch.
Unsurprisingly, nan mediocre economical conditions and nan accrued costs of gaming consoles has put a dent successful sales. Sony precocious reported that sales of nan PS5 dropped 16 percent during nan 2025 vacation play erstwhile compared to 2024. Conventional contented indicates that it's agelong past clip to sunset last-gen consoles, but we don't precisely unrecorded successful accepted times.
In immoderate event, location is simply a caller Call of Duty expected for this year, though we don't person immoderate charismatic details. Rumors person indicated it'll beryllium Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. Activision Blizzard dropped a teaser for Black Ops 7 in June of past year.
Incidentally, Call of Duty will no longer beryllium a time 1 franchise for Xbox Game Pass. This is yet different measurement successful which keeping up pinch nan caller games has gotten much expensive.
