Will a new generation kill Call of Duty?

[NightDragon83]

Gilgamesh said:

Seems like every generations there's a franchise that does amazing and the next gen it all goes into the shitter for some reason.

Guitar Hero

Tony Hawk

Final Fantasy

Crash bandicoot

Tekken

Need for Speed

Tomb Raider

The list goes on, sure these games still sell but not compared to what they use to. Call of Duty just seems to get bigger and bigger with every new game they come out with, so do you think Call of Duty will suffer the same fate as a lot of games and slowly die off as a new generation starts?

The one thing that all those franchises have in common (aside from no longer being as popular or prestigious as they were in their heyday) is the fact that at some point they started to decline not in popularity but in quality, culminiating with an installment (or two) that was so far removed from what made is predecessors great that it pretty much tarnished the entire reputation of the brand.  The last couple of Tony Hawks and Tomb Raiders were the biggest offenders here, and there's been a few mediocre NFS, FF, GH and Crash games over the past generation or so.  I'd say Tekken is the only series that doesn't belong on that list... the only reason it's not as popular these days is because fighting games in general aren't that popular, aside from the recent MK/SF revivals.

Love it or hate it, the fact of the matter is there has yet to be a bad installment in the main COD franchise that derails the series and sends it into a downward spiral of mediocrity.  Sure, there's been a couple of stinkers on handhelds, but each new installment in the main franchise has been bigger and more successful than its predecessor, culminating with BLOPS 2 which some would argue is the best COD yet.  And with the next generation of consoles going into full swing over the next year or two, this is only going to push the COD franchise even higher into the stratosphere.