According to the company’s third-quarter financial report, Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty 2023 plans includes the “next full premium release in the blockbuster yearly series” (pdf). While this would be unremarkable in most years given Call of Duty’s usual autumn release cycle, Bloomberg reported in February that Activision Blizzard intended to postpone its anticipated yearly entry until 2023.
According to Bloomberg, Activision Blizzard planned to postpone the 2023 release due to the bad reception of 2021’s Call of Duty: Vanguard, which failed to fulfil the company’s expectations. In addition, Bloomberg reported in January that the corporation was contemplating changing the yearly releases.
