ByPaul Tassi,

Senior Contributor.

The launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has divided fans and critics, fans among themselves, critics among themselves and whatever other combination you can think of. But the main story and question here is…is Black Ops 7 performing well or not, both compared to past Call of Duty installments or recent shooter hits like Battlefield 6 and ARC Raiders?

Well, it’s complicated.

Tracking Call of Duty numbers has always been difficult once Activision stopped bragging about sales and playercounts most of the time. Now in the Xbox era, that’s even more confusing, with little to no data shared about Game Pass play. So, we track what we can. Most Popular lists and the one platform that actually shares data, Steam.