The Call of Duty from 2020 changes studio under development

The development of next year's entry in the Call Of Duty franchise seems to have undergone a significant change this week, as reported by Jason Schreier in Kotaku. Apparently, Activision publishers have changed the studios working on the game, from Raven and Sledgehammer to Black Ops developers, Treyarch, who will work on the release of Black Ops 5 a year earlier than planned.

One of the main reasons why Activision intervenes seems to be unspecified arguments between Sledgehammer and Raven employees. For several years, Sledgehammer, Treyarch and Infinity Ward have been the main studios to facilitate annual outings. It was initially Raven's first participation as a (common) leader, but it seems to be on the contrary that the schema escapes, with Sledgehammer missing his turn and Treyarch taking the reins instead.

According to Schreier sources, this means that 2020 will see the release of Call Of Duty: Black Ops 5 (or IIIII?), With Treyarch continuing to follow its own narrative thread. The work already done by Sledgehammer and Raven will apparently be adapted into a single-player campaign.

But this cuts the expected development time for Treyarch by one year. Schreier writes that the developers of the studio "are already preparing for brutal overtime as they did last year on Black Ops 4", with the following note: "We will have more to share on Treyarch and the development of Black Ops 4 in the coming weeks. . "With the multitude of crisis reports produced recently, it's not hard to imagine what that might mean.

The problem is that Black Ops 5 may be looking for a multi-generation console version, targeting the new PlayStation and Xbox consoles expected to target a launch by 2020. And the alleged confrontation between Sledgehammer and Raven probably will not help things as both act as support for Treyarch as they attempt to condense a three-year development cycle into just two.

Sledgehammer co-founder Michael Condrey left Activision last year, shortly after an internal reshuffle. He now runs another studio under 2K, which seems to be overthrowing the Slegehammer staff.

Activision-Blizzard achieved record profits last year before laying off 800 employees.