| niceguygameplayer said: I got to looking up game sales for several game series. I saw a disturbing theme. Most series seem to be on a decline. I mostly compared first week sales for games in certain series, but also used other methods. Multipltform games: Call of Duty is down. Assassins Creed down. Titanfall... fallen. Final Fantasy 15 in Japan, has only sold less than half of what 13 did. We will see about the rest of the world.
Xbox: Forza down. Halo down. Gears of War: grinding down.
Playstation: Gran Turismo down. God of War down. LittleBigPlanet: Littler! The only improvement I saw is Uncharted slightly up.
Nintendo: NSMB U is way down from NSMB Wii. Golden Sun down. Smash Bros.: Smashed. Well, compared to the last Wii version. Pokémon is slightly up from the last 3DS game, but that may be because of the Pokémon Go craze of summer.
So what is going on? |
Maybe if you actually put thought into why each of those series is down, you might have come to different conclusions than repeating a silly doomsday scenario which has now been predicted for 5 years since mobiles rose up. Btw, the gaming industry in the 80s only crashed in North America, not Japan, Europe or elsewhere.
CoD down: fatigue of the franchise, bad games in a row, not giving what the fans want. Other shooters eating its share like Destiny, Overwatch and Battlefield
Titanfall: sandwitched between BF1 and CoD
FF15: Japan moving away from traditional gaming is a process that's been going for many years, did you live under a rock?
Gran Turismo down: last main entry came a week after the PS4 launched in Europe, no one cared for a ps3 game in that week. The only surprise here is that it still managed to sell 5 million.
God of War down: que? When ever did prequels sell more than main games?
NSMBU down: the game was never gonna sell as much as the Wii title, there are 2x less Wii U consoles in circulation than there are copies of that game
I mean if you're so worried about videogaming, why don't you actually do real research and look at the financial statements of the companies? Here I'll help you out with one, ActiBlizz's latest reports http://investor.activision.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1104659-16-154713&CIK=718877
