Activision has introduced that Name of Obligation collection gross sales have topped the five hundred million mark, and Microsoft has additionally revealed that Black Ops 6 loved the collection’ largest launch ever.
Chatting with the Washington Submit, Activision confirmed the huge gross sales milestone for the first-person shooter franchise, and that milestone probably explains why Microsoft’s gaming income elevated 61% within the first quarter of the 2024-25 fiscal 12 months, with 53 of these factors pushed by Activision.
Moreover, in an earnings name (through Eurogamer), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella described Black Ops 6‘s launch as “the largest Name of Obligation launch ever”, pointing to its “file for day one gamers in addition to Recreation Go subscriber provides on launch day”.
Nadella did not give any specifics concerning gross sales figures or Recreation Go subscriber provides for Black Ops 6, though as Eurogamer notes, he did beforehand say that Bethesda’s spacefaring RPG Starfield set the same file final 12 months.
Nonetheless, this monumental success, in addition to Name of Obligation‘s gross sales figures as a complete, will little question add to the happiness Nadella feels about scoring an eye-watering payrise this 12 months regardless of large layoffs throughout his firm.
Should you’ve in some way missed out on the hype, Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 is the most recent sport within the long-running and phenomenally profitable Name of Obligation franchise.
The sport is a co-development effort between longtime Black Ops studio Treyarch and Raven Software program, who additionally collaborated on 2020’s Name of Obligation: Black Ops Chilly Conflict. It boasts a single-player marketing campaign, in addition to the standard multiplayer and zombies modes.
Regardless of its large success, Black Ops 6 has garnered its fair proportion of controversy as effectively, with parts like its always-online marketing campaign and paid audio package deal drawing fireplace from irate followers.
In any case, Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 is out there proper now on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, and it is also playable through Xbox Recreation Go Final and PC Recreation Go, though not through Xbox Recreation Go Customary or Core.
