No ghost recon?

I feel like this is more relevant.

Made a quick comparison.

Best Selling Console Video Game Genres in the U.S. for 2016 & 2015. By Units Sold. pic.twitter.com/5TwLBMoHX2

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) April 19, 2017

Great graph, It really shows that the genre is mostly dying down alot.

I think CoD will go up again this year though, the next entry has more people excited.

There is a major issue with these stats: they are lumping FPS and TPS together, and of course they are US sales only...

FPS will take up majority of sales, so the trend will generally rely on FPS doing well. I mean TPS might do better in some years then others but the trend is generally the same. Take Halo and Gears of War. Gears dropped harder then Halo.

It is official US sales unlike VGC though. JP also has a stronger FPS presence then before by far. It used to be nonexistent and now Splatoon and other FPS are topping the charts sometimes. Europe likely has similar trends, but I am too lazy to bring up charts for those...

FPS taking up the majority of shooter sales does not mean FPS is increasing. The 1 or 2% increase may very well be attributed to TPS.

But anyway this thread is not about US sales, but WW sales. I may do a graph comparison of the major TPS franchises eventually.

Halo 5 sold 5 million copies within 3 months.... Here it's not even at 5 million yet? Why?

http://wccftech.com/halo-5-sold-5-million-copies-within-3-months/

Good thread non the less. Are you going to add Destiny when the sequel releases?

I already accounted for that. In order for both FPS to decline and  TPS to increase there would have to be a substantial TPS. However that simply isn't the case as games like Overwatch, Star Wars Battlefront, and Destiny have been driving the sales for shooters (Especially FPS) to unprecedented levels.

Don't worry WW Genre shifts are much more severe for FPS. Japan had almost nonexistent FPS sales and has recently taken up the genre. Asian countries all over have started playing Overwatch and it has become a huge game, even rivaling the status quo top games like League of Legends.

Heck take Germany for example. (Only TPS and FPS)

PS4

CoD: Black Ops 3 - 500k
Uncharted 4 - 500k
Battlefield 1 - 500k
CoD: Advanced Warfare - 200k
CoD: Infinite Warfare - 200k
Far Cry 4 - 200k
Far Cry Primal - 200k
Star Wars: Battlefront - 200k
TLoU: Remastered - 200k
Destiny - 200k
The Division - 200k
Mafia 3 - 200k
Battlefield 4 - 100k
CoD: Ghosts - 100k
Killzone: Shadow Fall - 100k
inFamous: SS - 100k
The Evil Within - 100k
Battlefield: Hardline - 100k
The Order - 100k
Rainbow Six - 100k
DOOM - 100k
Rise of the Tomb Raider - 100k

2.8m FPS vs 1.5m TPS roughly as some games are hard to classify.

Xbox One

Black Ops 3 - 100k
HALO 5 - 100k
Battlefield 1 - 100k

0 TPS in XB1 LTD to break 100k.

I say this as a person without any FPS bought, and a few TPS bought. It is unfortunate, but FPS are definitely very strong.

Besides it's ard to define what an adventure game is these days and a third person shooter. For instance VGchartz has Uncharted listed as a shooter, while I would say it's an actionadventure title.

You're right, Uncharted is definitely an Action-Adventure game same as The Legend of Zelda or Metroid. Definitely not a shooter.