Nostalgia just bodied the entire modern COD lineup on PlayStation. Black Ops 1 and 2 ports racked up over 7 million players in their first week on PS4 and PS5 combined, with Black Ops 2 alone pulling 5.25 million weekly actives in the US on PS5 according to insider data shared via beta widgets.

These are straight ports from Iron Galaxy — no fancy remaster treatment, no crossplay between PS4/PS5 pools or DLC owners, and the live player counter got stripped out — yet they sat at #1 and #2 on the PlayStation Store charts ahead of Fortnite and other live service heavyweights. Reddit threads in r/CallOfDuty and r/PS5 are full of players dusting off old accounts for the multiplayer and Zombies modes, with some calling the $20 PS Plus price the best deal in gaming and others griping about separate matchmaking lobbies and missing features like wager matches.

CharlieIntel dropped the numbers confirming BO2's dominance, and even some players admit the 2012 gameplay feels slower than today's shooters but the maps and gunplay still slap harder than whatever Black Ops 7 is serving up. Activision made bank with minimal effort here, and the community is making it painfully obvious they want more Golden Era ports or actual remasters next.