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February 10th, 2014, 23:20
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The next entry in Activision's Call of Duty series is scheduled to launch for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 before it hits any other console, Activision Publishing's CEO Eric Hirshberg confirmed (http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/02/10/914602) with IGN.
Sledgehammer Games was recently named (http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/06/call-of-duty-series-now-on-three-year-three-studio-development/) as the developer behind this year's Call of Duty project. Activision announced during an earnings call last week that the franchise has switched to a three-year development cycle, with developers Sledgehammer, Infinity Ward, and Treyarch trading off on an annualized release schedule.
"Sledgehammer is approaching this as a next-gen-first development," Hirshberg told IGN. "Obviously in the console-transition year, anyone who developed a cross-generational game last year had to deal with the fact that the technology of the next-gen platforms was still coming into focus and changing quite a bit during the development process.... Now that we have the next-gen hardware out in the marketplace and solid, that is our primary development."
Sledgehammer Games previously assisted Infinity Ward in the creation of 2011's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (http://www.joystiq.com/game/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3), contributing to the project in a co-development role. This year's Call of Duty game is the first series entry that Sledgehammer will tackle as a primary developer.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/10/activision-this-years-call-of-duty-game-is-next-gen-first/
The next entry in Activision's Call of Duty series is scheduled to launch for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 before it hits any other console, Activision Publishing's CEO Eric Hirshberg confirmed (http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/02/10/914602) with IGN.
Sledgehammer Games was recently named (http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/06/call-of-duty-series-now-on-three-year-three-studio-development/) as the developer behind this year's Call of Duty project. Activision announced during an earnings call last week that the franchise has switched to a three-year development cycle, with developers Sledgehammer, Infinity Ward, and Treyarch trading off on an annualized release schedule.
"Sledgehammer is approaching this as a next-gen-first development," Hirshberg told IGN. "Obviously in the console-transition year, anyone who developed a cross-generational game last year had to deal with the fact that the technology of the next-gen platforms was still coming into focus and changing quite a bit during the development process.... Now that we have the next-gen hardware out in the marketplace and solid, that is our primary development."
Sledgehammer Games previously assisted Infinity Ward in the creation of 2011's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (http://www.joystiq.com/game/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3), contributing to the project in a co-development role. This year's Call of Duty game is the first series entry that Sledgehammer will tackle as a primary developer.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/10/activision-this-years-call-of-duty-game-is-next-gen-first/