daredevil.shark said:
Heard the same thing with bf3. Not gonna happen. COD will win. |
For all intents and purposes, BF3 was the first Battlefield to the casual console shooter market. Before that core shooter fans had BFBC2 or had a PC. The fact that BF3 absolutely trucked out of nowhere with casual fans was ridiculous, even if it didn't outsell CoD. BF4 for all its problems still did reasonably well, but the market wasn't there and it's fallen apart since then.
BUT, if any one circumstance had BF with a chance to pull ahead, it would be this single situation. BF brings something new to the casual audience that is appealing (all the casual fans are told they want WWII by core fans so they believe it, and now we get WWI) while CoD takes the final leap into the futuristic setting that not many really wanted.
The deciding factor is, sadly, CoD4. If it only releases with IW for the first few months, CoD has it in the bag 100%. If they care and release it standalone right away, CoD will cannibalize itself HEAVILY and gives BF just the edge it could need.
Activision isn't stupid though, they'll do the former. CoD wins even if BF comes out the better game.
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