How FPS franchises are trending in sales

[Farsala]

atma998 said:

Farsala said:
I feel like this is more relevant.

Made a quick comparison.

Best Selling Console Video Game Genres in the U.S. for 2016 & 2015. By Units Sold. pic.twitter.com/5TwLBMoHX2

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) April 19, 2017

Shooters have only gotten stronger as a genre as time goes on. All for NPD US sales. The real bleeders are for Sports, Fighting and Racing games.

FYI:
2013 Shooter %: 20%
2014 Shooter %: 21.7%
2015 Shooter %: 24.5%
2016 Shooter %: 27.5%

There is a major issue with these stats: they are lumping FPS and TPS together, and of course they are US sales only...

FPS will take up majority of sales, so the trend will generally rely on FPS doing well. I mean TPS might do better in some years then others but the trend is generally the same. Take Halo and Gears of War. Gears dropped harder then Halo.

It is official US sales unlike VGC though. JP also has a stronger FPS presence then before by far. It used to be nonexistent and now Splatoon and other FPS are topping the charts sometimes. Europe likely has similar trends, but I am too lazy to bring up charts for those...