It appears the price and release date for Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 have leaked ahead of an official announcement that could come as soon as today, August 19.
Reputable leaker billbil-kun said the game will launch on Friday, November 14, priced at $70 for the standard edition and $100 for the Vault edition. This pricing is not surprising, as Microsoft–which owns Call of Duty and publishes the games–had already said it would not charge $80 for any games this year. Still, it’s notable because some people theorized that Microsoft would up the price, in part because the company originally announced plans to do so beginning with The Outer Worlds 2 before reversing course.
Billbil-kun also reported that there will not be a Switch 2 version of Black Ops 7 at launch. Microsoft and Activision have said they are working together to bring Call of Duty to Switch, but it remains to be seen when and how it might happen.
Black Ops 7’s confirmed platforms are PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. Given that Black Ops 7 will support last-gen systems, some wondered why Switch was again left out.
In 2023, amid the FTC vs. Microsoft court case, Microsoft said it had signed a “binding 10-year legal agreement to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo players.” The statement said Microsoft would launch Call of Duty on Nintendo platforms “the same day as Xbox, with full features and content parity.”
Activision has skipped Nintendo platforms for Call of Duty for more than a decade, as the last CoD release on a Nintendo platform was a port of Call of Duty: Ghosts for Wii U in 2013. Call of Duty has a long, strange history on Nintendo platforms, and this is just the latest chapter in that story.
Black Ops 7 marks the first time in franchise history that Activision is releasing Black Ops games in consecutive years. The game is set in 2035, which is 10 years after Black Ops 2’s campaign. Like with 2024’s Black Ops 6, Treyarch and Raven Software are co-leading development on Black Ops 7.
Activision will release more details about Black Ops 7 during Gamescom Opening Night Live today, so keep checking back for more.
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