How FPS franchises are trending in sales

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VGPolyglot on 24 May 2017

So, you didn't include Primal's sales for the Far Cry franchise? Is that not considered to be a main entry?

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atma998 on 24 May 2017

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"with only a small sampling of titles"

Come on, I picked up the main 6 highest selling franchises of the last decade. Overwatch only has 1 title so we cannot call it a franchise yet. Same goes for Doom which saw a reboot in 2016 but did not release any new titles since 2005.

You said, "Overall we can say that FPS games are not doing so well." If you meant "established franchises" instead of "games" then that's fine but I can only reply to the words you've chosen. Those few franchises do not represent the entirely of the genre by any means.

And what about Borderlands? I know Borderlands 2 has sold over 12 million copies.

Well, I'm talking about the genral trending in this genre. Of course there are exceptions, like Far Cry for example but most other big franchises are trending down. Borderlands only has two titles and Borderlands 2 is currently at 5.29M (PS3 + X360), not even close to 12M. I'm not counting PC sales, this topic is only about console games, also I'm only counting retail as this is based on VGC numbers.

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atma998 on 24 May 2017

VGPolyglot said:
So, you didn't include Primal's sales for the Far Cry franchise? Is that not considered to be a main entry?

Primal is kind of a spin-off, not part of the main series.

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jason1637 on 24 May 2017

atma998 said:

VGPolyglot said:
So, you didn't include Primal's sales for the Far Cry franchise? Is that not considered to be a main entry?

Primal is kind of a spin-off, not part of the main series.

So is Bad company/2 and Halo ODST/Reach

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jason1637 said:

atma998 said:

Primal is kind of a spin-off, not part of the main series.

So is Bad company/2 and Halo ODST/Reach

Yeah, so it's an incomplete list.

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atma998 on 24 May 2017

jason1637 said:

atma998 said:

Primal is kind of a spin-off, not part of the main series.

So is Bad company/2 and Halo ODST/Reach

Bad company/2 and Halo ODST/Reach are still FPS while Primal is more of an Action-Adventure game.

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atma998 said:

jason1637 said:

So is Bad company/2 and Halo ODST/Reach

Bad company/2 and Halo ODST/Reach are still FPS while Primal is more of an Action-Adventure game.

FarCry 4 and 2 felt very Action Adventury to me. Nevr played 3 but i hear its very similar to 4.

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atma998 on 24 May 2017

jason1637 said:

atma998 said:

Bad company/2 and Halo ODST/Reach are still FPS while Primal is more of an Action-Adventure game.

FarCry 4 and 2 felt very Action Adventury to me. Nevr played 3 but i hear its very similar to 4.

Well sometimes the line is hard to trace as to know which game is part of the main series or not. I'm sure some people would have complained if I would not have included them. That said, my list is surely not perfect but it shows the general trend in FPS genre.