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Call of Duty to go to Game Pass in gaming shake-up

The videogame is the biggest title ever to be made available on a subscription service from day one.

It is the fourth best-selling game series in history, topping 425m lifetime sales - and making tens of billions of dollars in the process. "[It} is a big test for subscription, because if Call of Duty can't move the needle in terms of subscriber numbers, probably nothing will," he added. This means Microsoft is taking a huge gamble, choosing to potentially cannibalise sales in exchange for - it hopes - a sharp increase to Game Pass subscribers.

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