How FPS franchises are trending in sales

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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...

Besides it's ard to define what an adventure game is these days and a third person shooter. For instance VGchartz has Uncharted listed as a shooter, while I would say it's an actionadventure title.