{"id":120424,"date":"2024-10-31T11:19:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T04:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120424"},"modified":"2024-10-31T11:19:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T04:19:47","slug":"call-of-duty-black-ops-6-sets-record-for-game-pass-subscriber-adds-on-launch-day-says-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120424","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 sets record for &#8220;Game Pass subscriber adds on launch day&#8221;, says Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella has called last week&#8217;s <a data-keyword=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/call-of-duty-2024\">Black Ops 6<\/a> launch the &#8220;biggest Call of Duty release ever&#8221;, saying its arrival set a record for &#8220;Game Pass subscriber adds on launch day.&#8221;&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nNews of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6&#8217;s success came amid Microsoft&#8217;s Q1 FY2025 financial earnings report, which saw the company once again reporting notable gains in gaming revenue, up 43 percent year-over-year. That&#8217;s alongside a 61 percent year-on-year increase for Xbox content and services revenue, although growth was primarily a result of Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/microsoft-has-finally-bought-activision-blizzard\">$69bn Activision Blizzard acquisition<\/a>. In contrast, the company&#8217;s Xbox hardware revenue has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/xbox-console-sales-decline-continues\">continued to fall<\/a>, this time by 29 percent year-on-year.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nMicrosoft&#8217;s <a data-keyword=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/companies\/activision-blizzard\">Activision Blizzard<\/a> acquisition also helped provide more good news for investors, thanks to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6&#8217;s recent arrival. While opening weekend numbers saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/call-of-duty-black-ops-6-uk-physical-sales-drop-in-shift-to-game-pass\">physical sales of Black Ops 6 fall by 10 percent in the UK<\/a> compared to Modern Warfare 3, likely due to its day one appearance on Game Pass, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella trumpeted the launch in an earnings call today, calling Black Ops 6 the &#8220;biggest Call of Duty release ever&#8221;.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 live-action reveal trailer.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ovxYvuEYaE0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWhile the Nadella didn&#8217;t share specific figures to illustrate his claims, he also noted Black Ops 6&#8217;s launch had set a &#8220;record for day one players as well as Game Pass subscriber adds on launch day.&#8221; That Game Pass metric was previously rolled out last year, when Nadella announced Bethesda&#8217;s <a data-keyword=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/starfield-main-story-walkthrough-9352\">Starfield<\/a> had &#8220;set a record for the most Game Pass subscriptions added on a single day ever&#8221;, indicating higher numbers of Black Ops 6. Whether those numbers prove sufficient for Microsoft, given Black Ops 6&#8217;s Game Pass launch marked a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/analysts-reckon-call-of-duty-black-ops-6-could-bring-up-to-4m-new-game-pass-subscribers\">critical test<\/a> for its subscription service strategy following acquisition of Activision Blizzard, remains to be seen.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nNadella also revealed Black Ops 6&#8217;s launch had attracted the highest number of opening weekend PC players in the franchise&#8217;s history, while unit sales on PlayStation and Steam were said to be up 60 percent year-over-year. Black Ops 6 developer Treyarch repeated many of Nadella&#8217;s record-setting claims in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CallofDuty\/status\/1851753565900927282\">message shared on social media<\/a> before throwing in some of its own &#8211; adding Black Ops 6 had seen the highest number of total players, hours played, and total matches played during a three-day opening weekend in Call of Duty&#8217;s history.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBut how has it gone down with the critics? Eurogamer&#8217;s Chris Tapsell shared his thoughts on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6&#8217;s &#8220;nonsensical, but surprisingly intimate&#8221; campaign earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/call-of-duty-black-ops-6-campaign-review\">calling it<\/a> a &#8220;return to form for the series, mixing the usual, slightly unsavoury real-world set dressing with cracking action, horror twists and tongue-in-cheek charm.&#8221; We&#8217;ll be reaching a verdict on Black Ops 6&#8217;s multiplayer component at a later date.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"false\" data-hashid=\"\" data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    function appendFacebookPixels() {\n      if (window.facebookPixelsDone) return;\n      !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n      {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n      n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n      if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n      n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n      t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n      s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '560747571485047');\n      fbq('track', 'PageView');\n      window.facebookPixelsDone = true;\n      window.dispatchEvent(new Event('BrockmanFacebookPixelsEnabled'));\n    }\n    window.addEventListener('BrockmanTargetingCookiesAllowed', appendFacebookPixels);\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/call-of-duty-black-ops-6-sets-records-for-game-pass-subscriber-adds-on-launch-day-says-microsoft\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; Microsoft boss Satya Nadella has called last week&#8217;s Black Ops 6 launch the &#8220;biggest Call of Duty release ever&#8221;, saying its arrival set a record for &#8220;Game Pass subscriber &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120424\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8630],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}