Activision Blizzard has revealed the sales figures for the Call of Duty brand shortly after news of the record launch of Black Ops 6. The series has surpassed 500 million copies sold since the release of the first game in 2003.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discussed the performance of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 over its opening weekend. According to him, the game has already become the largest launch in the franchise’s history.

Black Ops 6 successfully launched on Steam, despite a simultaneous release on Game Pass. According to SteamDB, the peak concurrent player count for the main Call of Duty HQ application reached 306,460 during the first weekend following the release of the new series installment.

The analytics company Circana has summarized two decades and presented a list of the best-selling games in the US. The list includes 24 positions, with the Call of Duty series occupying 12 of them.

Sony has shared with the British regulator concerns about the future of the Call of Duty series on its consoles if a deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard takes place. In particular, she suggested that the corporation will start releasing games with bugs and poor performance on the PlayStation.

Microsoft is confident that the British regulator has greatly overestimated the number of Call of Duty fans who will buy Xbox consoles if the corporation makes the franchise exclusive. To prove their point, Microsoft commissioned a study from the independent company YouGov.

Microsoft continues to try to appease antitrust regulators. Bloomberg sources report that the corporation has offered Sony the right to distribute Call of Duty series games as part of a PS Plus subscription.

The head of Valve commented on Microsoft‘s promise to leave the Call of Duty series on Steam for 10 years if the deal with Activision Blizzard takes place. Gabe Newell stated that he was pleased with this offer and takes it as a compliment to Steam.

Phil Spencer announced that Microsoft has agreed to release Call of Duty on Nintendo consoles after completing the purchase of Activision Blizzard. He also confirmed that the games in the series will continue to be released on Steam at the same time as the release on Xbox.

This was stated by Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, in a column for The Wall Street Journal. He also confirmed that the corporation offered Sony to sign a contract for a period of 10 years for the release of Call of Duty on the PlayStation.

The developers announced the achievement of the free battle royale on the official Twitter account of the Call of Duty franchise. They did not specify how the Warzone 2.0 audience was distributed across platforms.

Microsoft Corporation, in an interview with The New York Times, reported that it made such an offer on November 11, 2022. Sony declined to comment on it.

This was stated by the head of Xbox in the framework of the Decoder podcast. He did not name the approximate period for which Call of Duty may linger on Sony consoles, but noted that it is a bit silly to expect Microsoft to sign a contract with the word “forever”.

Activision announced that in the first three days of sales, which fell at the beginning of the weekend, the revenue of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 reached $800 million. This is the highest-grossing opening weekend in the history of the franchise.

On October 28, the world release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II took place. A weekend later, the first information about sales appeared. No specific figures, unfortunately. However, even without them, it is clear that the shooter is doing very well at the start.

Microsoft continues to convince both international regulators and the gaming community that the purchase of Activision Blizzard will not radically change the situation on the market. The latest statement by Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, is just about this.

He broke the record for the number of users, hours played and matches played, according to Activision. The company did not provide specific figures.

Two days ago, the Call of Duty Twitter account announced a new operative skin — Doomsayer. But gamers quickly noted its similarity to the Variant 402 skin from the game Deadrop, which is being developed by the Midnight Society studio.

Yesterday, Activision showed the first full-fledged trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and soon after shared statistics on the entire franchise. The company told about the success of the Call of Duty series of games in an interview with The Washington Post.