A single Call of Duty game, 2019's Modern Warfare reboot, has outsold entire video game franchises like Cyberpunk, Payday, Devil May Cry, & Like a Dragon.

Thanks to the incredibly sharp eye of GameFile’s Stephen Totilo, he managed to dig out the Activision-stated costs of three major Call of Duty games from 2015 to 2020,

For 2019's Modern Warfare, developed by Infinity Ward, the total cost of development was reportedly $640 million with 41 million copies sold. The last one is Black Ops Cold War from 2020. Treyarch and Raven Software's joint project reportedly took $700 million to develop and sold 30 million copies.

Call of Duty is the best-selling game almost every year, but even that might not be enough to keep up with its ever-ballooning blockbuster budgets. New court filings reveal that 2020's Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War cost $700 million to make over the life of the game,

Activision has disclosed the budgets for its recent Call of Duty games, revealing them to be some of the most expensive video games ever created—at least among those with publicly known figures. Unlike the film industry,

Talk about how expensive it is to make a AAA game for modern consoles has been a major talking point over the last several years while the industry has faced re

Activision reveals the massive development budgets of a few Call of Duty games, with some reaching unprecedented figures and setting new records.