Black Ops 6 Was The Biggest Call Of Duty Release Ever, Says Microsoft CEO

Black Ops 6 Was The Biggest Call Of Duty Release Ever, Says Microsoft CEO

From DualShockers (Written by Jaime Tugayev) on | OpenCritic

It might come as no surprise given the waves the game has made, but Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has broken all previous franchise sales records.

Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, dropped some interesting information about the Black Ops 6 sales performance during a quarterly earnings call today.

Earning Calls of Duty

According to Nadella, Black Ops 6 set a new record for day-one players and marked the biggest single increase in Xbox Game Pass claims for a game in the platform's history.

Compared to last year, which saw the mediocre release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Black Ops 6 beat it by 60% when measuring both Steam and PlayStation Store unit sales.

Thanks to the success of Black Ops 6, Activision Blizzard registered a 43% increase in revenue from Xbox sales, relative to Q1 2024.

Nadella credits this success to a "strategy of meeting gamers where they are by enabling them to play more games across the screens they spend more time on."

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