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SWORDF1SH on 05 June 2015
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torok said:
SWORDF1SH said:

GTA is the biggest franchise


I'm not sure if we can affirm that. Of course, GTA V sold gangbusters, but we only had two GTA games for PS360. In the meantime, we had like 9 CoD games and since MW/BO they sell an easy 20M every year.

I took a look at sales and CoD did around 160M on PS360, while GTA IV+V did around 60M on the same platforms. We can apply the same logic to Fifa, because it sums up 70M+ on PS360.  So I think that which franchise does the biggest impact is pretty much debatable.

However, back to the OP, I think it's hard. But any franchise tied to the Wii U will more likely suffer than help the console. Because if any of the would become exclusive to PS or XB, you could buy that console and still play all other 3rd party games. If one of them went Wii U exclusive, you would have to choose between that franchise and all the other 3rd party games.

In that sense yes COD is a bigger franchise. What I meant that GTA has more unique sales so gta appeals to a larger audience and would have the bigger impact. It's pretty close though. Looking at last gen GTAv sold about 35M on PS3/360. BLOPS (highest selling COD) sold about 26M. So the GTA deal would affect 35M while the COD deal would affect 26M. Altough the COD deal would be a more lucrative because it sells more copies.