Rumor: Call of Duty 2025 May Release for PS4 and Xbox One

Summary

Call of Duty 2025 may still release on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
The last generation of consoles are now over a decade old, with many believing that they are holding games back.
The next Call of Duty game is rumored to release later this year and may be a direct sequel to 2012’s Black Ops 2.

A new rumor from a trusted insider claims that Call of Duty 2025 may still be released on the last generation of consoles, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. While many fans were shocked to see 2024’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 still launch on the 12-year-old consoles, it looks like publisher Activision remains committed to the ageing hardware as the next entry in the franchise is reportedly still not ditching the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are now well over a decade old, with both consoles releasing in 2013. Despite this, some developers and publishers still insist on supporting the hardware, even with the current generation of consoles now in the latter half of their life cycles. Sony even recently gave its flagship console a refresh with the release of the PlayStation 5 Pro, which is supposedly lagging behind the PlayStation 4 Pro when it comes to sales, which many expect to be primarily due to the $700 price tag attached to the console.

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Call of Duty 2025 Could Be Coming to Xbox One and PS4

According to a new report from insider CharlieIntel, Call of Duty 2025, which is heavily speculated to be a direct sequel to 2012’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, may still release on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. CharlieIntel says they have heard that “the game is in development for the old consoles,” and also speculated that development for the last generation of consoles could be why Call of Duty: Warzone is incapable of rotating between two large scale maps, similar to other Battle Royale titles such as Apex Legends. While Warzone does receive new maps regularly, they often replace their predecessor. Resurgence maps, which are much smaller in size than standard Battle Royale maps, have been known to rotate every 15 minutes.

The next entry in Activision’s critically acclaimed series has yet to be announced, but this isn’t the first rumor to circulate surrounding Call of Duty 2025. Various insiders and leakers have claimed that this year’s Call of Duty game will be a direct sequel to Black Ops 2, with the game’s multiplayer maps all being remasters from the 2012 shooter. However, with Treyarch Studios’ new omnidirectional movement system here to stay, some significant new features are also expected for the title, including a supposed new wall-jumping system.

Call of Duty 2025 was also expected to bring a new Warzone map along with it, but a recent rumor suggests the map, titled Avalon, has been canned or delayed. Many of Black Ops 6‘s multiplayer maps are set in Avalon, which was supposedly going to be the next large scale Battle Royale map for Call of Duty: Warzone before Activision opted to bring back Verdansk. The studio has confirmed that the game’s very first map will be returning in Spring 2025, and new leaks have indicated that its return could now be set for Season 3, which is just a matter of weeks away.