Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 banked a decent (read: rec0rd-breaking) amount in sales when it launched last month to rave reviews and record-breaking online player numbers.

Activision's goal with the sequel to Modern Warfare was to earn the same money we see in blockbuster films and they succeeded like none have done before. So, with that success comes curiousity and speculation to the franchise which as traditionally had one game released per year, alternating between its two developers: Treyarch and their current World at War franchise and Infinity Ward with their Modern Warfare series.

As we now know, these two studios have absolutely no ties together other than the branding and work in their own ways to develop their titles. Sadly, this means for us players that they don't work to include the best parts of each others' titles into their own.

Well, now that MW2 has been launched and we may see a (rumored) Cold War-themed World at War 2 next Fall, Activision has recently added a THIRD developer to work on another Call of Duty property.

We do not know yet what developer this is or what exactly they will be working on, but my initial thoughts were that it must be a new series of titles based in the future. I mean, Activision has made it clear that they're done with WWII games (thankfully) and the World at War games have the past covered, Modern Warfare has the present covered, what about the future? Call of Duty: Future Warfare anyone?

We saw a similar trend in EA DICE's Battlefield series which started with a WWII themed game in Battlefield 1942 followed by a Vietnam-based title then Battlefield 2 which was set in the present. The next installment was of course Battlefield 2142 which I loved but wasn't as popular as Battlefield 2.

I'd love to see what Call of Duty would look like in the future and it can open the doors to all sorts of new gameplay and options - who better to bring that to us then Activision and their developers?

That being said, it may not be so simple a guess as we also heard that they're considering a Call of Duty MMO. I'm not a fan of paying subscription fees for a single title when so many other games are out there to play but with Activision Blizzard now leading the charge in the FPS genre and no real widely popular mainstream FPS MMO out there, this is the franchise to break the barrier.

Not only can they see a crazy amount of unit sales, but the profit they'd make off of DLC, subscription fees and possible microtransactions are staggeringly high.

What do you expect from the future of Call of Duty and would you like a future-based game or an MMO?

Source: LA Times