Microsoft could do a lot of things but what has their history so far shone for purchased companies. Under Phil leadership, he has not shone since he has become the top dog for interfering with how either Bethesda or the individual studios are run.  There is no real reason for MS to mess with COD or how its developed.  The last thing I feel Phil wants to do is disrupt any franchise that is already hitting their marks.  COD continuing to hit is yearly schedule may not appeal to some of you as gamers but as a product, it consistently hits its mark so there would not need to be any change.

MS used more outsourcing because they had no choice.  The limitation of MS studios means they had to outsource the work in order to get things to meet specific deadlines and ship on time.  That is more an issue with resources then MS using outsources devs to help teams with work.  COD does not need that because it already have 3 teams working on it.

I doubt we will see any changes with COD for the foreseeable future which will be between 5 years or better.  There is an expectation from the COD community that there will be a new COD every year just like for football gamers or basketball there is a Madden or 2K.  MS is not going to mess with that expectation or those timelines, there really is no benefit for them to do so.

I’m going to tell you right now that MS is not going to have the whole of Activision working Exclusively on CoD. 

Yeah putting your entire chips into one Franchise is how Activision went on a decline, and when they did actually find success with other franchises they ran them into the ground because they didn’t give them any breathing room just look at Skylanders and Guitar Hero.

Warzone Mobile is likely in development at Digital Legends and Solid State and that will make them tons of money/revenue too. Treyarch and Infinity Ward will likely take the helm with CoD and Sledgehammer are likely going to b the first ones taken off considering that their CoD games seem to be the worst rated.

Raven likely want out as well but MS are going to have to find a solution to that since they are the ones updating Warzone.

Expanding IW and Treyarch is likely going to be the key going forward by opening new locations in different cities to take on the workload.

Hopefully its not as slow as MW'19

Anyone post the Ghostwire Tokyo stuff?

Cant wait for some joker to post a DF comparison

It's pretty much just the movie, ready player one. 

Looks pretty.  Turn-based combat. Long video, I just kind of skipped around to get a feel for it.

Why not.  What exactly is making you come to that conclusion.  What exactly making you believe that MS as a business would change one of the most profitable franchise that Activision owns for what purpose.  You have to show me why MS would change COD development cycle for what benefit.  If having all of Activision exclusively on COD continue to allow the game yearly development and also continue to keep its customer base paying each year, there is absolutely no reason MS would mess with that.  They may expand studios, hire more talent for other projects but mess with a consistent money maker, naw, do not see it happening at all.

I am definitely willing to bet that their will be no change to COD development cycle.

Declined yes, but still sold way more than any other FPS game on the market.  You guys act as if COD has not gone up and down depending on the type of game released by the different studios.  Even still every year its still the number 1 selling game even when it does not hit its mark. 

Any game can flop or not meet sales expectation but it would have to be a major decline in the game in order for that to happen.  If a lot of people like me, I usually skip a year or or 2 when they go back to WW2 era, I am not interested.  Anyway, its going to be a long time before we see any changes made to Activison on the development side, we will see in about 3 years if anything change.