Warzone Leaves Xbox One and PS4 After Season 06

Call of Duty: Warzone is already gone from Xbox One and PS4 stores, and the last playable season on those consoles opens September 17 for just four weeks. Players who still have the game in a console library can keep dropping until Black Ops 7 Season 06 ends. After that, Activision says the last-gen client dies when Modern Warfare 4 Season 1 begins.

The June delist was the lock on the door. The remaining window is a short Halloween season, then a current-gen-only Warzone tied to a $70 shooter that those boxes will never run.

The June Store Pull Already Locked the Door

New downloads stopped on June 4, 2026, when Activision removed Warzone from the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One storefronts. Anyone who already owned it can still install from the platform library. Anyone who deleted the client and never added it cannot get it back on those machines.

That first cut also stripped local-currency packs, including COD Points, BlackCell, and Call of Duty League Operator Packs, from last-gen menus. The paid Battle Pass could no longer be bought with COD Points on those versions. The free track stayed up, so players who never paid could still grind free tiers and new weapons through the rest of Black Ops 7.

On June 25, 2026, the in-game store itself came down on PS4 and Xbox One. Skins already bought still sit on the account. Nothing new can be purchased inside that last-gen client. That sequence matches the original last-gen shutdown timeline Activision posted when it revealed Modern Warfare 4.

THE LAST-GEN WARZONE CUTOFF

The client that remains is a closed room. Friends who never installed the game cannot join from an Xbox One or a PS4, and the shop that funded cosmetics on those boxes is already dark.

Season 06 Lasts Just Four Weeks

Black Ops 7 Season 06, titled The Haunting, still ships to the last-gen build. Call of Duty Staff said it launches September 17 at 9 AM PT across all platforms, with Warzone’s Haven’s Hollow turning into Haunted Hollow, a nighttime Resurgence map with a Ghost Train, trick-or-treat pumpkins, and a Giant Infected limited-time mode.

Daniel Noel, a writer at Activision, described Season 06 arriving Thursday, September 17 with those maps and modes, and he still listed Black Ops 7 and Warzone as available on PS5 and PS4. Last-gen boxes are not frozen in a June snapshot. They get the Halloween drop. They just will not get the year that follows.

The official season post is blunt about the clock. In the Resurgence Ranked notes, Call of Duty Staff wrote that the season is set to last just four weeks, a short enough window that ranked SR tests at Diamond and above can run without a full two-month cycle. Multiplayer Ranked on Black Ops 7 carries the same “shortened run time” warning.

A four-week season that starts September 17 lands in mid-October if that clock is literal, which would put the last-gen playable window inside The Haunting and not inside Modern Warfare 4. Activision has not printed that mid-October day as a shutdown date. It has printed two hooks that may be the same moment, or may not.

When Does Last-Gen Warzone Go Dark?

Activision’s support FAQ gives the playable rule in one sentence and the death rule in another. Last-gen Warzone stays up through the end of Black Ops 7 Season 06. It also “will no longer be available to play” when Modern Warfare 4 Season 1 starts. Modern Warfare 4 launches October 23, 2026 on current hardware, and Activision has said Season 1 begins shortly after that launch. It has not named a calendar day for either the season end or the last-gen lights-out.

WHAT WE KNOW

• Store pull: Warzone left PS4 and Xbox One digital stores on June 4, 2026, and the in-game shop closed on June 25, 2026.
• Playable rule: The last-gen client stays up through the end of Black Ops 7 Season 06 for anyone who already owns it in a platform library.
• Season length: Season 06 launches September 17 at 9 AM PT and, per Call of Duty Staff, lasts just four weeks.
• Death rule: Warzone on PS4 and Xbox One becomes unplayable when Modern Warfare 4 Season 1 begins.

WHAT IS UNCONFIRMED

• One calendar day: Activision has not published a single date on which last-gen servers refuse logins.
• Two clocks: It is not confirmed whether Season 06’s four weeks end before Modern Warfare 4 Season 1, or whether those events are meant to be the same cut.

Until that day is posted, the working instruction is the FAQ line last-gen owners have been seeing in-game since summer.

Call of Duty: Warzone on PlayStation 4 and XBOX One will be available to play through the end of Season 06 for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. New downloads will no longer be available on these platforms starting June 4. However, the game can still be installed and played until the end of Season 06 if it is owned in your platform’s library.

Activision Support, Warzone Platform Update

That is why deleting the install is the one unforced error left. The storefront cannot replace it. The FAQ also says the game remains playable through the end of Season 06 only if it already sits in that library.

Skins and Stats Move to Current-Gen Hardware

The battle royale is not being wiped from Activision accounts. It is being pulled off two 2013 machines. Loadouts, camos, and items bought with COD Points travel with the same linked Activision account onto a PlayStation 5, an Xbox Series console, or a supported PC.

Unspent COD Points do not roam as freely. Points bought or earned through Battle Pass tiers stay tied to the platform family that purchased them. Xbox One balances become spendable on Xbox Series hardware on the same account. PlayStation 4 balances move to PS5 the same way. They do not jump from Sony to Microsoft, or from a console onto Battle.net, just because Warzone is going dark on the old box.

Most items bought with local currency follow that same-family rule, including content that belongs to another Call of Duty title and remains usable inside that title. BlackCell could not be bought in the last-gen Warzone store from Season 04 onward. Free Battle Pass tiers, including new weapons in the remaining Black Ops 7 seasons, stayed open.

WHAT CARRIES OVER

• Progress and COD Point items: Full Warzone progression and content purchased with COD Points carry to any supported platform on the same linked Activision account.
• Unspent COD Points: Balances stay inside the console family, Xbox One to Xbox Series or PS4 to PS5, on the same account.
• Local-currency packs: Most of those purchases stay on the same-family current-gen console, including items that live in other Call of Duty games.
• Older CoD titles: Campaigns and multiplayer games that originally shipped on PS4 and Xbox One remain playable; the cut applies to Warzone on those two platforms only.

The upgrade path is the actual bill. Last-gen Warzone was free. Modern Warfare 4 is not, and it will not install on those consoles. A player who wants the next Warzone season has to bring a current-gen machine and the same Activision login, then spend points on that new hardware.

Thirteen Years of Last-Gen Call of Duty

Call of Duty has been on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One since Ghosts in 2013. Warzone joined in 2020 as the free battle royale that kept those living-room boxes in the same matchmaking pool as current hardware. Black Ops 7, which shipped in 2025, was the last annual entry built for that pair.

Warzone on those consoles has looked like a compromise for years, with softer draw distances and a client that never got every current-gen map. That is the part of the cutoff last-gen owners already lived with. Some of them said the split was overdue because the old boxes were holding the engine. The sharper complaint is the price of leaving, not the principle of a 2013 CPU retiring from a 2026 live service.

THE LAST-GEN CALL OF DUTY RUN

1. 2013: Call of Duty: Ghosts launches on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, starting a cross-gen run that lasts through Black Ops 7.
2. 2020: Warzone launches as a free-to-play battle royale on those consoles and on current hardware.
3. 2025: Black Ops 7 ships as the last annual Call of Duty built for Xbox One and PS4.
4. June 4, 2026: Warzone is removed from last-gen storefronts; new downloads stop.
5. June 25, 2026: The last-gen Warzone in-game store is removed.
6. September 17, 2026: Black Ops 7 Season 06, The Haunting, launches at 9 AM PT, still listed for PS4.
7. October 23, 2026: Modern Warfare 4 launches on current-gen consoles, PC, and Nintendo Switch 2, with last-gen Warzone set to end at Season 1.

Other Call of Duty games that originally released on those consoles stay up. The FAQ is explicit: the change applies to Warzone on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, not to the rest of the catalog sitting in the same library.

Modern Warfare 4 Sells Into a Smaller Console Base

Modern Warfare 4 is the reason the last-gen Warzone client has nowhere to go. Microsoft’s Xbox listing says the game is not available on Xbox One, and it is not on Game Pass at launch. It is built for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, PlayStation 5, supported PCs, and Nintendo Switch 2, the first mainline Call of Duty on a Nintendo box since Ghosts on Wii U.

S&P analyst Neil Barbour, using the firm’s internal console data, put that audience at 147.5 million consoles, down 5.6% from the Black Ops 7 install base. He projected 36 million PlayStation 4 and Xbox One users still active by the end of 2026, against a Switch 2 install base of 33.9 million at the same point. Switch 2 does not fully replace last-gen on headcount, and it is a different living room.

THE CONSOLE BASE MW4 IS SELLING INTO

• 147.5 million: S&P’s global console install base for Modern Warfare 4.
• 5.6% smaller: Drop versus the Black Ops 7 console audience, per the same note.
• 36 million: PS4 and Xbox One users S&P expects to still be active by the end of 2026.
• 33.9 million: Projected Switch 2 install base by the same point.

Xbox One Game Pass users who were still launching Warzone on the old box got the same in-game warning as disc and digital owners: after Season 06, that client stops. The subscription does not carve out an exception. Cloud play on a Series console is a different path, and it is not the 2013 machine in the cabinet. Modern Warfare 4 skipping Game Pass at launch closes the other cheap on-ramp that used to put a new Call of Duty on Xbox the same week it shipped.

Last-gen Warzone still runs for anyone who kept the install, and Season 06 still lands on those copies on September 17. After that four-week Haunting, the free battle royale that kept Xbox One and PS4 in the rotation goes with the old hardware, and the next season of Warzone belongs to the machines that can launch Modern Warfare 4.