Activision’s surprise ports of Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 on PS5 have been a pretty strong financial success, according to a new report. The PS5 ports of the 2010 and 2012 CoD titles have racked up over seven million units sold since launching on July 9, according to CharlieIntel. This backs up other recent data that showed that the latter was the most-played game on the entire platform recently, including perennial top title Fortnite. Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 ports on PlayStation have sold over 7 million units combined, sources familiar with the sales figures tell us pic.twitter.com/gGgchMcSPi— CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) July 28, 2026 The report also states that “the decision to port these games was made by Activision’s Strategy and Finance team,” which shouldn’t really come as a surprise, but I do wonder how this changes the situation for CoD moving forward. Black Ops 2 outpaced the standard Call of Duty HQ app on PS5 in the week ending July 18, meaning it had more players than several games housed there, including Black Ops 7, Black Ops 6, and Warzone. This could add a very interesting wrinkle to Activision’s plans moving forward. First, there’s no doubt that the company sees the revenue coming in from these old games and are now talking about which ones to port next. It started with BO1 and BO2 on PS5, but could we see other classics like the original Modern Warfare games get ported, too? Xbox players are also hoping for a native port, because the original games are available through backwards compatibility, but the servers left dormant for years are overrun by hacked lobbies, so the desire is there. I can only wonder, though, how this makes developers at studios like Treyarch and Infinity Ward feel. There’s no doubt that these ports have taken a lot of the steam out of the final seasons of BO7 and grabbed some attention from the upcoming Modern Warfare 4, which has its beta test next month and launches in October. Activision has steered clear of releasing multiple CoD games around the same time, likely because of this situation being a possibility, so something has changed within the company to feel as though this needed to happen now. With porting these old, beloved games to current gen tech, it feels like the devil is now out of the bottle. I’ll be really interested to hear what Microsoft has to say at its next earnings call about how things will be handled moving forward.0The post Years-old Call of Duty PS5 ports reportedly rack up big sales. So, what’s next? appeared first on Destructoid.