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It’s really just clear at this point that the CoD franchise has managed to avoid the burnout problem and now sits alongside those other yearly sports titles (like the aforementioned FIFA) as these titles that are almost more of a ritual than they are games that we analyze and assess on their own merits and then just wait and see how gamers react to them. However, these figures seemingly reveal the relationship between early next-gen adopters and those who buy the latest CoD game almost by instinct suggests that this is still the series that speaks to a pretty large audience who have to have the newest things right away and will buy them at full price without any real hesitancy. There are many who feel like we’re reaching this point when the main CoD series is due for a bit of a nosedive in terms of the stranglehold it has had on the yearly software sales race. Let’s be very blunt: the Call of Duty franchise is largely on creative autopilot at this point, and it seems like there’s a degree to which Activision is starting to view Warzone as this series’ true cash cow. Despite the fact that it’s still quite difficult to buy a PS5, and despite the fact that next-gen versions of Vanguard don’t offer a ton of advantages and improvements, it seems that there is some kind of relationship between those who went out of their way to be relatively early next-gen adopters and those who wanted the next Call of Duty game as quickly as possible. While the PlayStation’s popularity in that region isn’t exactly surprising, the fact that the PS5 seems to be dominating the sales race in this particular category is certainly fascinating.

The PS5 accounted for roughly 41% of Vanguard‘s physical sales in that region so far, and the PS4 accounted for about 29% of those sales (the Xbox One and Xbox Series X accounted for 19% and 11%, respectfully). All of that is good news for the CoD team, but here’s the really impressive part.