Call Of Duty 2025 will still be on PS4 and Xbox One claims source
This year's Call Of Duty is also in development for last generation consoles, despite the PS4 and Xbox One being 12 years old this autumn.
This year’s Call Of Duty is also in development for last generation consoles, despite the PS4 and Xbox One being 12 years old this autumn.
The current console generation will probably go down as the most unremarkable in history, with very few games actually pushing the capabilities of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
There are several reasons for this, between the rising cost of making games, pandemic shortages, and the small graphical leap from the PlayStation 4 era, but it’s a problem which also looks set to loom over Sony and Microsoft’s plans for future hardware.
Another problem is the sheer amount of people still playing on old generation consoles, with many games still coming out on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One all these years later. While we’re defintely on the tail end of this trend, a new report claims the next Call Of Duty game will still come out on these old consoles.
According to sources at Call Of Duty site CharlieIntel, as posted on X, Call Of Duty 2025 is ‘in development’ for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ‘from what we’ve heard’.
‘This may be the reason as to why there can’t be two big maps in Warzone at the same time,’ the site speculates.
Area 99 was the last map to be added to Warzone in November 2024 but this was only for the Resurgence mode, with the last main battle royale map being Urzikstan, which was added back in December 2023.
Call Of Duty leaker GhostOfHope recently claimed Warzone’s original map, Verdansk, will return in Season 3 for Black Ops 6, which is expected to start in March. This, however, will apparently come at the expense of a new in-development map called Avalon, which ‘may potentially be postponed from its original late 2025 release or completely canned’.
None of this has been officially announced, but if true, it is a frustrating example of how the slow transition to the current generation is holding back the design of new games.
If nothing else though, the game being on last gen consoles means that a Nintendo Switch 2 version this year is quite likely, given the new console is rumoured to be roughly equivalent to a PlayStation 4 in power and Microsoft has long been promising to bring the series back to Nintendo consoles.
As for what we know about the next Call Of Duty, leaks claim it will be a direct sequel to 2012’s Black Ops 2, with remastered maps and returning mechanics – including the omni-movement system from Black Ops 6.
While Activision has not officially announced anything about the next Call Of Duty, rumours suggest Sledgehammer Games, who last created 2023’s much maligned Modern Warfare 3, are developing this year’s instalment.
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