The next Call of Duty is finally leaving the PlayStation 4 behind.
The official Call of Duty account shut down speculation this week by saying the next entry is not being developed for PS4. Activision did not say the same thing about Xbox One in that post, but it would be surprising to see the next game skip Sony?s last-gen machine while still supporting Microsoft?s.
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This is a big symbolic cutoff because Call of Duty has been one of the last blockbuster franchises still carrying the PS4 and Xbox One generation. Recent entries kept reaching older consoles even as the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S became the current standard. That helped players who had not upgraded, but it also kept developers tied to hardware that launched back in 2013.
The timing is awkward for players. New consoles are still expensive, and price hikes have made the jump harder than it should be this late in the generation. A lot of people bought into Call of Duty partly because it kept showing up on the hardware they already owned.
Still, the technical argument is not hard to understand. At some point, a yearly shooter built around new visuals, bigger modes and faster systems has to stop stretching itself across three console generations. The next Call of Duty does not have a full reveal yet, but this already tells players one important thing: the upgrade clock is getting louder.
