It might come as no surprise given the waves the game has made, but Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has broken all previous franchise sales records.
Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, dropped some interesting information about the Black Ops 6 sales performance during a quarterly earnings call today.
Earning Calls of Duty
According to Nadella, Black Ops 6 set a new record for day-one players and marked the biggest single increase in Xbox Game Pass claims for a game in the platform’s history.
Compared to last year, which saw the mediocre release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Black Ops 6 beat it by 60% when measuring both Steam and PlayStation Store unit sales.
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Thanks to the success of Black Ops 6, Activision Blizzard registered a 43% increase in revenue from Xbox sales, relative to Q1 2024.
Nadella credits this success to a “strategy of meeting gamers where they are by enabling them to play more games across the screens they spend more time on.”
Good COD Is Finally Back
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has blindsided most players by delivering the best campaign the franchise has seen in many years, with some fans going as far as saying this is the best Call of Duty to date.
Treyarch paid close attention to the criticisms leveled at Black Ops: Cold War, particularly at how the campaign was both shallow, short, and uninspired.
The developers hit back with a love letter to action shooters of yore, in a title that has left veterans and newcomers alike begging for more.
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On the multiplayer side, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6released the Infected mode yesterday, and the addition of the certified classic Nuketown map is slated for this Friday.
Activision’s official channels have announced that the much anticipated Season 1 of the Black Ops 6 and Warzone season pass is coming November 14.
Details on the first drop are scarce, outside the fact that it will add new maps. Some crafty players have discovered an Avalon map that you can currently spectate, but not play on right now.
Black Ops 6 is looking like the Call of Duty everybody has been begging for, and hopefully, the strong sales performance will make sure Treyarch gets to realize its vision for the next installment.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- Released
- October 25, 2024
- Engine
- IW 9.0
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Suggestive Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs
- X|S Optimized
- Yes
- Number of Players
- 1-4
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- Unknown
- OpenCritic Rating
- Strong
- Cross Save
- Yes – PlayStation, Xbox, PC
- Cross-Platform Play
- Yes – PlayStation, Xbox, PC
- PC Release Date
- October 25, 2024
- PS5 Release Date
- October 25, 2024
- Xbox Series X|S Release Date
- October 25, 2024
