| Miguel_Zorro said: I stopped buying Call of Duty a few years ago. It felt like the same game over and over again. You need to correlate it to total software sales, not hardware sales. For 2014 you might have a point, but 2013 was a solid year for software sales. Then declining hardware sales didn't stop Grand Theft Auto 5 from putting up massive sales totals. |
Then why do CoD sales go up and down in the exact years that hardware go up and down? GTA V is not an annual franchise and was bound to break records, the game was huge.
When I correlate CoD's software sales to yearly PS3/360 hardware sales the numbers line up with each other. When I correlate the software numbers to CoD's software sales the numbers line up with each other. The more hardware that sells yearly, the more software that sells yearly. It really doesn't matter if you correlate CoD's sales to hardware or software because they fall in line with each other. Just because one game (GTA V) broke records doesn't mean overall software sales are higher than the previous years. One game doesn't decide the state of software overall. I see no reason why GTA V has anything to do with CoD's selling patterns. The declining hardware sales not stopping GTA V from breaking records shows GTA was more immune to a declining 7th gen market, that's all, software numbers don't suggest anything else.
