Ooh I do want CoD to go down in popularity. By like a lot.

Too many games have a shooting mechanic solely cause of CoD and that kills gameplay diversity.

Whats happening now is different than what happened in 83. Honestly things are not that bad.

I don't care if it crashed - I have tons of games and the modern games are no good most of the time anyway.

Except in an industry crash CoD would likely be one of the last AAA tentpoles along with GTA, TES, Assassin's creed and Mario etc so those franchises would be likely more popular and influential than ever due to less competition. Because you know they still are profitable it's everything else that would die or be reduced to low budget downloadable releases/ freemium phone games.

I never said we needed a crash for that to happen.

If anything it'll go down the Guitar Hero route, people will just get tired of the yearly releases after a while. Shooter Bubble looking to burst soon. Open-World/Sandbox looking to become the next "thing".

A crash of a video game company is good ? Yes and No.

Yes -> If that company releases the same kind of game every year that conquers the BIG PART of the market (like COD) , I would like that trend stops to let

the others kind of games getting the chance to become popular.

No -> Many people will lose their jobs  

well, 99.99999% of all games are shit and that aaallllways was the case

If CoD goes down then Activision would have to rely mainly on Blizzard considering they destroyed guitar hero and tony hawk IPs. I don't really want an industry crash but I wouldn't mind seeing Activision and EA going bankrupt.

A crash would be bad for everyone in the gaming industry: developers, gamers, companies. Don't fool yourself. A crash means, at least some important companies go bankrupt or are in heavy trouble losing much of it's former glory like Sega. That would basically lead to a lot less games - and that to gamers leaving. leaving gamers mean the industry even shrinks more and more companies struggle and so on. This cycle will last for some time (probably 2-3 years) until it can be stopped.At that time we will have a lot less diversity in games. And no big company will be unharmed. Don't fool yourself into thinking a crash would be good.

There are healthy ways for a market to shrink, but that doesn't involve the word crash.

Is Call of Duty and Skylanders really the only things that Activision has now? (And I suspect some major players will try for the Skylanders market)No wonder Vivendi was looking to sell. 

We do need people to fill the publishing side of EA if they do fall though. The West really needs it's version of of a publisher that does a wide variety of niche games of every genre.