CoD: Ghosts a Huge Flop?

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Salnax said:

C0LINx said:
Not surprised, the hype has died. They killed it. Should stopped annual releases after Black Ops.

What bothers me is, like the fall of Guitar Hero and World of Warcraft to a lesser extent (other Activision Blizzard frnachises, come to think of it), Call of Duty doesn't seem to be getting replaced with other equivalent series. There was no big Halo release to divert attention this year and Battlefield 4 has been performing quite worse than 3 did two years ago. It's as if a bunch of people just decided to stop playing FPS's.

This would be great if that meant a diversification of the industry were the result, but so far, the only possible recipient of these sales seems to be GTA5. Unless Killzone: Shadowfall has a week 1 of about 2 million, I'm worried that the lack of Call of Duty will be a blow to our favorite medium.

You are missing something, the people are saving to buy their new consoles. So intead of 300-500 dollars available to buy ONLY games, people have to pay for their new console and buy some games, and CoD is not the first one in their lists. CoD is not the only game that will suffer, many of the end of the year releases will sell less than expected because the people are buying new consoles, and they can only expend so much money on videogames.