Hindle it doesnt work like that. You have 3 developers that all make distinct Call of Duty games and experiences, particularly IW and Treyarch, that all have their own followers. With a call of duty every 2 years or so (with big support 1 year in between) you give breathing room to the other 2 while giving them flexibility to work on numerous things if they choose to. Its not an all in or nothing approach.
What is none of the 3 wanna work on something else are you gonna force them?
MS are not going to be pumping out Cod every 2 years or even 3. As i keep saying, they no longer force any of thier devs to strict timelines any more. And if you read the quote in full, he says as much.
I think every studio in Acti will be given the freedom to make whatever they want with Infinity Ward becoming the Cod studio.
The idea Sledgehammer or Treyarch want to keep making Cod, yea i reckon they cant wait to move on. Especially after Vanguard
Phil Spencer said in an Interview that he will ask to Activision Blizzard studios what games they would like to make
That’s the best that could happen. Listening to devs, giving them much better working conditions and help agains misbehaviour, and getting that passion and creativity back.
That’s so cool. I wonder what class/race Phil chose for this meeting.
I’m thinking Breton Mage. Phil seems like a classic D&D class kind of dude.
COD is ditching the yearly schedule according to the devs. Im standing by my view that it will be a once a gen franchise handled by IW
Something i havent seen mentioned yet: Wonder if Alpha Dog is gonna partner and work with King when the aquisition goes through. Theyre a small studio so they could always use the resources and support
This is going to be part of your incorrect 10%
I loved how fast these things were talked about, especially from Phil:
Why do you do this 
Haha I mean its years away is this, I will be interested in the plans though
Turn CoD to once a gen and take away 66% of its workforce … sure
Hindle I don’t understand why you sincerely believe Xbox has 32 devs, 60 teams, like a hundred IP, 60+ projects in the works and that none of these projects will ever overlap and each team will spend 7 years making these games.
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The Call of Duty’s that Treyarch makes are fundamentally different from the ones Infinity Ward makes. Both have their fans, strengths and cons and xbox wont homogenize that into a single 1 and much less turn CoD into a 1 per gen series. Like Im sure Sledgehammer will also appreciate getting TIME AND RESOURCES to make a great CoD too.
This one argument I feel Hindle is trying to be extremely out of left field from lol.
If it doesnt release every year, it will release every 2 years, you’re insane if you think CoD will release once every 3 years
and they will always have at least 2 of the major teams working on one e.g. Infinity Ward & Treyarch and a release every 2 years would give them a 4 year dev cycle
A 4 year dev cycle would do wonders
The last part got me the most excited about acquisition. So many talented people got relegated to cod factory . So many IPS to work with and they can also make new ips
Each team wont spend 7 years, the bigger AAA projects will be close to this.
Phil has gone on record saying he wants diversity every year for XGP. They will release games of all sizes across every genre each year.
This is called marketing, planning, scheduling all designed to bring in a diverse bunch of gamers into XGP.
With the Activision acquisition, can we say Roundhouse Studios is the kne who has more to prove alongside Compulsion Games? I don’t know what to expect from them and they really underperformed.