Call of Duty shuts down PS4 rumors, confirming current gen focus for 2026 entry

It’s almost that time, gamers. As summer rapidly approaches, that means we’re in store for another Call of Duty reveal soon in the coming months.

June is usually around the time when CoD begins ramping up its marketing towards the yearly launch, so it’s approaching quicker than players can grasp, but a rumor that recently popped up over the weekend spread some not-so-encouraging intel about what to expect from it.

Previously reliable leaker Alaix posted on May 3 that they were hearing the new CoD is currently being tested for the PS4, leading many to roll their eyes that the platform is still somehow being used for a new game in 2026. Thankfully, Activision has been quick to stamp it out by confirming that’s not the case.

“Not sure where this one started, but it’s not true,” Activision said on the main CoD Twitter/X account. “The next Call of Duty is not being developed for PS4.” And so a collective sigh of relief was heard across the community.

This means that the new CoD, rumored to be a new entry in the Modern Warfare series, will be the first applicable game to not launch on the previous generation of hardware. Even 2025’s Black Ops 7 was still available on the PS4.

The hope is that, with the PS4 (and Xbox One) left behind, that CoD can utilize the hardware of newer games to create a better product. That remains to be seen, but the quick turnaround on comms from Activision today is an encouraging sign that the series is not messing around with misinformation, extending the new vibe around the franchise after the publisher used legal means to shut down several noted data miners within the community earlier this year.

As for when the new CoD will become official, a safe bet would be the Xbox showcase at the beginning of June, considering as that’s how BO7 was first shown off last year. When it does launch this year, it will be for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.

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Grand Theft Auto 6’s development is trudging along to release later this year, but the hotly anticipated sequel won’t be coming to PC…at least not right away.

PS5 and Xbox Series X|S will be home to GTA 6 at launch, but PC gamers are being left in the lurch, as has been the case for most previous titles that Rockstar Games has launched. And that’s by design, according to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick.

“Rockstar always starts on console because I think with regard to a release like that you’re judged by serving the core,” Zelnick said in a new interview with Bloomberg. “Like really serving the core consumer. If your core consumer isn’t there, if they’re not served first and best, you kind of don’t hit your other consumers.”

So, PC gamers aren’t a “core” consumer in the eyes of Rockstar, apparently. But you can bet that, within a few years, GTA 6 will eventually come to PC with upgraded visuals and other buzzwords so that the game can continue to sell.

GTA 5 was released and re-released several times over, on multiple different console generations, along with a Definitive Edition that also came to PC. It’s hard not to see this for what it is: a chance to make more money with subsequent different launches, and that’s just the way it goes.

The expectations for GTA 6 are unfathomable, with Zelnick previously calling the game “the most spectacular piece of entertainment on Earth, in history.” And according to a QA analyst at Rockstar’s studio in India, it’s leading to crunch conditions to make sure the game’s development crosses the finish line.

“We never claim success before it occurs,” Zelnick said. “We have the most amazing creative teams. We not only encourage them to pursue their passions, we insist that they do it. We try to give them unlimited financial, creative human resources and then they aim to deliver perfection.”

With Nov. 19 just about six months away and a massive marketing campaign looming over the summer, Zelnick said that “our goal is to deliver to consumers something that’s never been experienced before,” when it comes to GTA 6, remarking that “being on the sidelines but pretty close to the front of the sidelines is very, very exciting and terrifying, because the expectations are so high.”

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