Video game analysts say Xbox "dropped the ball" on the wrong year, as the Call of Duty franchise appears to be underperforming compared to past years. While Call of Duty has dominated the first-person shooter genre for over two decades now, player counts and general reception to Black Ops 7 have been significantly lower than the series is used to. Analysts theorize that it could be due to several factors, with a key one being that there have been many other exciting shooters released in 2025.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, the latest entry in the Black Ops subseries and the franchise as a whole, launched on November 14 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. The shooter has been in the hands of players for nearly an entire month now, and even recently launched its big Season 1 update on December 4, which saw Black Ops 7 fully integrated with its free-to-play Battle Royale counterpart, Warzone.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 players call for developer Treyarch Studios to fix a severe bug on Nuketown, the iconic multiplayer map.
The game's publisher, Activision, hasn't released any official figures for how...
