Like and subscribe if you enjoyed it! Follow me on social media: Instagram: BlueSky: Twitch: PS5 and Switch hardware sold bucket loads during Black Friday, but Xbox hardware was outsold by a little-known family video game console called the Nex Playground: REPORT: Microsoft believes BO7 is a good game but the financial performance is below expectations which were lowered last year after BO6 "fell off a cliff". With the state of the franchise overall, the pressure is now on Call of Duty to change its model. Microsoft wants to see Call of Duty overall move towards a smoother revenue stream and a reduced expenditure pattern. Microsoft has also supposedly told higher ups within Call of Duty that changes are very much required and nothing is off the table including studio mergers and a complete rethink of monetization models within the franchise. Xbox Dev Direct for January '26 confirmed. "We’ve got a lot of stuff that we’re shipping next year. I will tell you that Playground Games is going to be in the Dev Direct, but we’ll have more stuff next year to ship than we can fit into one show." Xbox finally wins a well‑deserved Games Award, and then uses the acceptance speech to announce the game is coming to PlayStation. You can't make this up.