Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7 doesn’t appear to be doing nicely, launching to poor critic and person opinions, decrease participant numbers and apparently a lot weaker gross sales than its predecessor. Extra particularly, the sport bought simply over 400,000 copies on Steam in its first 6 days, a drastically decrease quantity than Black Ops 6‘s 2.3 million in the identical time-frame.
In response to a brand new report, Microsoft aren’t too happy with the numbers, both.
The data comes from Hope@TheGhostOfHope, a reasonably dependable Name of Responsibility insider. However do consider to take every part stated with a pinch of salt, particularly as Hope doesn’t specify how they got here by this info.
In response to Hope, “Microsoft believes BO7 is an efficient recreation however the monetary efficiency is under expectations”. He goes on to say that expectations have been already lowered final 12 months after BO6 underperformed, with one supply describing its decline as having “fallen off a cliff”.
“Microsoft has additionally supposedly advised increased ups inside Name of Responsibility that adjustments are very a lot required and nothing is off the desk together with studio mergers and a whole rethink of monetization fashions throughout the franchise,” wrote Hope.
It’s price noting that nowhere is it prompt that they cease publishing Name of Responsibility each single 12 months, which is probably going one of many greatest causes of the franchises troubles.
Then once more, even a declining Name of Responsibility nonetheless sells tens of millions of copies. In Europe, Battlefield 6 outsold it by 63%, however CoD continues to be prone to be one of many highest promoting video games of the 12 months.
