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ImJustBayuum on 08 April 2012

 

Two of the biggest franchises in console gaming in recent memory. Assuming GTA 5 will launch end of 2012 or early 2013

1) Which one will sell more across all platforms?

2) Are you hyped for either, keep in mind that one is being milked to the max and the predecessor (gta4) of the other failed on so many levels? 

 



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Attoyou on 08 April 2012

PS3 & 360 only GTA will win. but otherwise i think black ops 2 will once you add Wii, DS, 3DS?, Vita?, PC.



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Thechalkblock on 08 April 2012

1. i'm confident that black ops will outsell gta5 across all platforms

2. i'm hyped for gta5, i'll pass on black ops 2 at least until it's much cheaper (a year or so after release)



Attoyou on 08 April 2012
spurgeonryan said:

I think that Black Ops will probably be on more systems. So it will probably sell more in the end. Assuming it gets Vita, PC, Wii U, Wii, PSP, 3DS, PS3, 360.

Below we see that CoD wins. GTA has never sold over 21 million copies.

 

Pos Game Platform Year Genre Publisher North America Europe Japan Rest of World Global
1 Call of Duty: Black Ops X360 2010 Shooter Activision 8.73 3.22 0.07 1.24 13.26
2 Call of Duty: Black Ops PS3 2010 Shooter Activision 5.46 3.72 0.41 1.69 11.28
3 Call of Duty: Black Ops PC 2010 Shooter Activision 0.51 0.64 0.00 0.20 1.36
4 Call of Duty: Black Ops Wii 2010 Shooter Activision 0.69 0.37 0.00 0.12 1.18
5 Call of Duty: Black Ops DS 2010 Shooter Activision 0.31 0.02 0.00 0.03 0.36

 

 

Here is GTA. Black Ops is big!

 

Pos Game Platform Year Genre Publisher North America Europe Japan Rest of World Global
1 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas PS2 2004 Action Take-Two Interactive 9.43 8.48 0.41 2.49 20.81
2 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City PS2 2002 Action Take-Two Interactive 8.41 5.49 0.47 1.78 16.15
3 Grand Theft Auto III PS2 2001 Action Take-Two Interactive 6.99 4.51 0.30 1.30 13.10
4 Grand Theft Auto IV X360 2008 Action Take-Two Interactive 5.73 2.71 0.13 0.93 9.51
5 Grand Theft Auto IV PS3 2008 Action Capcom 4.02 3.19 0.39 1.41 9.01

Xbox + PS2 San Andreas is over 22 million.



Atto Suggests...:

Book - Malazan Book of the Fallen series 

Game - Metro Last Light

TV - Deadwood

Music - Forest Swords 

Thechalkblock on 08 April 2012
spurgeonryan said:
Thechalkblock said:
1. i'm confident that black ops will outsell gta5 across all platforms

2. i'm hyped for gta5, i'll pass on black ops 2 at least until it's much cheaper (a year or so after release)


Happily CoD games still have plenty of people still playing online 1-2 years later. If that is your kind of thing...


i've always been more casual a gamer when it comes to competitive online,  mostly because i'm not too willing to spend a ton of time playing one game. i was thinking more about playing the new edition of nazi zombies :P



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bonkers555 on 08 April 2012

Black Ops 2 will sell more.

Can't wait for Black Ops 2, first one was great.



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Sal.Paradise on 08 April 2012

Blops will sell more, GTA V will be a vastly better game.

Still don't get the hate for GTA IV.



Brutalyst on 08 April 2012

It will be interesting to see, but if I had to place a wager I would go with GTA.

My reasoning...

Both are games that sell by the boat load and have a large fanbase, but GTA will be fresher with the last having come out what, 5 years ago? people will be hungrier for a new one. Where as CoD will only be more of a side grade from the previous entries not really bringing much new to the table.

Lets put it this way, if you were a young kid who had $60 in his hand and could only get one when he loves both, which would you get the one which you last played years ago? will probably be very different to it, or the one you had a similar game of 12 months earlier?



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NightDragon83 on 08 April 2012

Black Cops 2 will be the overall sales winner easily.

@OP: Why did you say that GTAIV failed on so many levels? Granted I thought it was a little too ambitious and tried to do too many things at once instead of just focusing on the core elements that make GTA great, but by no means was it a failure.



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BHR3 on 08 April 2012

looking forward to both games, gta5 more, thought BO was very good campaign wise

gta5 will win though (should be a guarantee if it releases this fall instead of next spring) even if you count BO2 on all platforms, the promble some aretn seeing in here is that gta4 was released in 08 userbases were small and game wasnt really gta, 5 should be very close to SA quality and content wise