Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 won’t include one big feature on Xbox One and PS4 — here’s why
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 includes a Theater mode, but not on the Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game.
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Players still on older consoles won’t be able to review their multiplayer matches in the latest blockbuster first-person shooter from Activision.
WhileCall of Duty: Black Ops 6does include a Theater mode, this feature isn’t available for anyone on Xbox One or PlayStation 4, Instead, it’s locked to the Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, and PlayStation 5 versions of the game.Speaking with Windows Central in a wide-ranging interviewon all things Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Treyarch’s director of production Yale Miller says that this is a resource issue, as the last-generation hardware simply can’t run the mode well.
“There’s no way, on a last-gen machine, that we can do all the things, especially from a graphical fidelity level. You start getting to a point where you’re looking at visual fidelity and other things. You’re wondering if you want to keep pushing to use CPU or GPU to push on graphics, then you might have to sacrifice gameplay. For us,” Miller says, “gameplay is king.”
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Treyarch and Raven Software’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 doesn’t have Theater mode on the older consoles, but every platform is getting 16 new multiplayer maps, the return of round-based zombies, and an action-packed campaign. Preorder now to secure Open Beta access, the Woods operator bundle, and the exclusive Reflect 115 camo pack.
Buy for Xbox:$69.99 at Best Buy|$69.99 at AmazonBuy for PlayStation:$69.99 at Best Buy|$69.99 at AmazonBuy for PC:$69.99 atSteam|$69.99 at Microsoft Store
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Call of Duty’s cross-gen cuts are nothing new
TheCall of Dutyfranchise is no stranger to dropping features in order to fit a game on older hardware.
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2015’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 featured a campaign, zombies, and multiplayer across Xbox One, Windows PC, and PlayStation 4. Meanwhile, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game wereheavilystripped back, with massively reduced visuals in multiplayer and a complete lack of the campaign mode.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is currently scheduled to launch on Oct. 25, 2024. It’s also launching day one intoXbox Game Pass Ultimateand PC Game Pass, a first for the franchise and coming almost a year after Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard.
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Samuel Tolbert is a freelance writer covering gaming news, previews, reviews, interviews and different aspects of the gaming industry, specifically focusing on Xbox and PC gaming on Windows Central. You can find him on Twitter@SamuelTolbert.
