First Person shooters have taken over from platformers since the 90's. The market got over whelmed by so many platformers that the sales stopped being as high as they used to be. Consumers saw First Person Shooters and instantly fell in love.

However Activison is recently credited with flogging a genre to its death. That Genre being music games, officially announcing the end to Guitar Hero the most successful series in the genre. Many analysts are creditting Activision's constant flow of Guitar Hero games to the franchise and possibly genre's fall.

As Gamasutra's general manager says  Activision "pretty much driven the franchise into the ground" Over the past few days many analysts and video game journalists have credited the constant milking of the franchise to its demise.

So Call Of Duty is currently the leading first person shooter franchise. Making up for a huge amount of first person shooter sales. Its so popular that Activision is hoping to release mutliple titles a year soon to meet demand. But this milking could most definatly damage not only the franchise but the whole genre.

Don't forget the music genre was pretty huge. Guitar Hero games were turning profits of over a billion dollars. Today the FPS genre is even bigger, but the bigger you are the harder you fall. If Activision drives CoD into the ground could it potentially take alot of the FPS genre with it?

Could Activision's milking of CoD be a threat to the survival of the entire genre as Guitar Hero drove the music genre into the ground?

I'd really love to see it but i don't think it will happen. That genre has been oversaturated for last few years but shows no signs of weakening.

god its a disgrace isnt it

i believe call of duty sales will eventually decrease but the genre wont die.

Not the entire genre. First-person shooters were incredibly popular long before Call of Duty and will continue to be even if COD dies.

well i hope it does :)

It's a genre that is a lot more versatile than music... portal as basically a FPS/puzzle game is a perfect example.

In the end what will happend is people like me that don't buy yearly itterations of madden or fifa will aslo be skipping the CoD games for longer and longer periodes.

What's a shame though it that there are so many online games now that the players are dispered on 10 identical games (4 CoDs...) and that there are very few players for other inovative game plays like AvP... which while lacking the same polish, do offer a fresh take to gameplay.

That said, major franchises are needed to have a nice and well polished experience... just not every single year...

It will never happen - people don't buy CoD games because they want to, it's because everyone else does. The only way that the franchise will die is if there is a huge Facebook petition or something, because it's the social aspect of these games that makes it appealing.

It won't, but I will not complain if it does happen

Of course Call of Duty will eventually die, but not the FPS genre.

CoD will die because of diminishing quality in the series along with annual (might soon be bi-annual) releases.