On January 18, 2022, Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard caused an uproar in the industry, with a total transaction amount of $68.7 billion, making many people exclaim that Microsoft was really a trench, and many players laughed that "the father who became Call of Duty will be Sony", and the planned acquisition will include the well-known works of Activision Blizzard and its subsidiary King, although Microsoft denies it, but this does give it such a possibility.
However, for players, it does not matter who joins whom, the key lies in whether the game that was agreed upon before can be released on time.
Recently, Bloomberg released a news, saying that some sources said that Activision Blizzard will postpone the latest version of the "Call of Duty" game originally planned to be released next year, which will also become the first annual update of the series of games in nearly 20 years.
As for the reason, the main reason is that the latest version of the game did not meet expectations, leading some executives to believe that the new version of the game was released too quickly. But Activision Blizzard will continue to support Call of Duty: Vanguard and Call of Duty Warzone in 2023, and if that does happen, it will mark the first year that Activision hasn't launched a new Call of Duty franchise since 2005.
People familiar with the matter also clarified that the delay in the release of the game has nothing to do with Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
But before the matter could ferment, Activision spoke.
It is reported that Bloomberg recently received a notice from Autovision, and updated the news report, which was accompanied by a Activision statement, which clearly stated, "This year, next year and beyond, we will have a series of exciting high-quality, and free Call of Duty offerings." Any other reports are incorrect and look forward to sharing more details of the game in due course. A visual sense of "don't be fooled.".
It's just that the official response also has a certain room for mediation, after all, from the content point of view, there is no positive answer to whether the new work jumps the ticket, but only promises to have the content of the new "Call of Duty", as for which work, it will be known at that time.
Activision this side of the new work is undecided, Blizzard this end is to make fans happy a lot, after being bought by Microsoft, many people feel that with the support of big brother, Blizzard this time is not able to harden up, a few signature games in hand, "Overwatch 2" "Diablo 4" is not a door.
Blizzard has never revealed exactly what happened to Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4, with the latest news being a new video demo released on Feb. 19 and the Overwatch League, which will kick off on May 5, with teams likely to compete in Overwatch 2, and the latest intelligence could be released at the end of June.
However, in the internal documents prepared for the Acquisition of Microsoft, the movement of the two is also mentioned slightly, in which Blizzard mentioned that there will be a significant revenue growth in 2023, with a revenue increase of 27.8% in 2023 with an increase of 2.551 billion US dollars in the November plan, and even after the revision, its growth rate has reached 22.96% year-on-year to 1.98 billion US dollars.
Blizzard predicted its future growth, and at least $2 billion, some media inferred that if each game costs $50, only 40 million sales can create this result, excluding other parts, it seems that only one or two blockbusters can achieve this goal. Therefore, many people think that what can bring so much growth to Blizzard at this time should be the release of overwatch 2 and Diablo 4.
Of course, if these two products are not released by then, it may be a surprise that Blizzard has prepared for players.