Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 launches on November 14, 2025. Black Ops 6, however, did so on October 25, 2024. Point being, they're surprisingly close releases. Indeed, there's not been a Call of Duty of any other variety between them, and while there's no doubt that BO7 will be an intensely profitable product, some measure of fan fatigue toward the Black Ops brand is a distinct possibility.
The thought has occurred to Black Ops 7's own devs, so much so that Treyarch's Senior Director of Production, Yale Miller, readily admits it.
"I think the honest answer is yes, I worry about that," Miller admitted when asked about prospective fatigue issues during an interview with CharlieIntel. (CharlieIntel's sister site, Dexerto, helped to provide the coverage.) "Obviously, there was a plan with the two [Modern Warfare] games," he points out, referring to the 2022 release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 followed immediately by 2023's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Still, it's clearly something Miller and the team have thought a lot about.
And that's amply evidenced: Black Ops 6 is set during Operation Desert Storm in the early 1990s, for instance, whereas Black Ops 7...
