shikamaru317 said:
What are you two even talking about? -CoD is massive, in case you didn't know. It is currently the 3rd highest selling game series of all time with over 400+ million sales, and Call of Duty Vanguard was one of the bestselling games of 2021, it outsold the Pokemon gen 4 remakes as far as I know. -Diablo 3 was one of the bestselling RPG's of all-time, it hit 30m sales within 3 years of it's release, and a further 6 years have passed since Blizzard released that 30m number, so it's probably more like 35m+ now. Diablo 4 is going to be pretty damn huge most likely. -Overwatch was huge when it launched in 2016, it won many GOTY awards in 2016 and Blizzard reported that they made more than $1b in revenue from Overwatch in the first year, and 3 years after release they reported that the game had hit 50m players, and as of January 2021, a year ago, it had reached over 60m lifetime players. As of now Overwatch 1 is still the 18th most played game on Xbox even though it is 5 and a half years old. Overwatch 2 is most likely going to be pretty huge when it releases. -Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 Remake sold 1m in 2 weeks when it released in 2020, a respectable amount for sure. -Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy sold 10m copies in 2 years, while Crash Bandicoot 4 sold less, but still a respectable amount. -Spyro Reignited Trilogy sold pretty well, for instance in the UK it released the same week as Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee, and outsold each of them individually (though losing to both of them combined) -Starcraft 2 sold 4.5m in it's first 6 months back in 2010, if Blizz ever decides to release Starcraft 3 I'm sure it will be a big seller. -Candy Crush is still one of the biggest mobile games even after 10 years on the market. In 2020 the game brought in over $1b in revenue for Activision, and supposedly the game still has 250m active players (people who play the game at least once a month) The only franchise on pi's list that is dead imo is Guitar Hero, the latest Guitar Hero flopped and I can't see Xbox attempting to revive it. |
As I said, call of duty can bring in some money, but it's not what it once was. The attitude of the average person who buys call of duty is something along the lines of "eh, I'll get it" then they play for a few weeks and either forget about it or trade it in. Call of duty isn't going to factor into somebody's decision to get an Xbox system over a PlayStation system. It'll move the needle a small bit. Diablo is solid, I'll give that a pass. The comparison of spyro to the pokemon let's go games is kind of laughable. You know that any mainline pokemon game is able to surpass anything on this list and crushes well over half the franchises on here. The crash remaster is the only conceivable version of crash that can achieve any noteworthy sales because of nostalgia. They aren't going to do that again, so that pickup is kind of worthless, but it's there. Candy Crush has definitely been a moneymaker, but we all know the number of people playing that is going to decline as the years pass. But at this point at least it's still worth something. I'm sure they could do something with starcraft and overwatch.
All in all I think we can see that this purchase isn't going to move the needle that much. A lot of these sales come from the fact that people buy these games on multiple platforms, so you have to take that into consideration. I think MS paid too much and I don't think this is going to make that much of a difference in the European market. Unless activision comes up with some new hit, that could be a game changer. That's probably what they're betting on.
