Thread Description: I had been updating  this thread witth these types of updates daily, but after experimenting with making it their own threads yesterday, I'm  hoping to making this a daily series post.  In each update I'll be comparing sales of a franchise this gen to last gen, and then we can discuss why the change in sales occured.

Game of the Day

(Highlighting a game to talk about the change in sales)

8/28

Call of Duty Franchise

PS2-PS3

XB-XB360

 Description: Today's game of the day is actually multiple games, on two platforms.  With the anticipation of Modern Warfare 2 building as it is coming out soon, the Call of Duty franchise is now obvioussly one of the biggest franchises in gaming.  But that wasn't always the case, the games sold well but not amzingly on the PS2 and Xbox.  So what was it that caused this franchise to go from big to huge this generation?  Also why is it that the 360 games (up 325%) improved a lot more over last generation than the PS3 games (up 13%)?  So vote in the poll and then leave a comment and let us know what you think =).

 My Take: Call of Duty was a franchise that was slowly picking up steam, but with the release of Call of Duty 4, the franchises was launched into top tier franchise status. The momentum gained from that game allowed World at War to sell a lot better than all of the other games with a WWII setting.  What I think is interesting is why the game is selling so much better on the 360 than the PS3.  the PS2 versions of the game did better than the Xbox games, and despite the larger userbase the 360 has, games like Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, Burnout, all of which were more succesful or only on PS2 games, sold about the same or better on the PS3 than on the 360. I really think the fact that Halo is on the 360 has been a big part of that, having a huge  FPS that is exclusive to your console attracted lots of FPS fans, and now games in the FPS genre are selling much better on 360.

Interesting after 5 votes, each option has one vote. Anybody want to comment about why they voted for what they did?

Call of Duty 1 and 4 are the best of the series. FH and BRO shouldn't exist.

I think you're right about Halo. I wonder how many X360 owners were introduced to FPS from Halo. With a core group of Xbox owners playing FPS type games, the demand for those types of games grew amongst that community. COD happened to be the next big game for that group of users that got introduced to FPS as a fun genre. On top of that, Call of Duty was done right with 4 player split screen and great online play with a modern setting.

A lot of people I know have Call of Duty Modern Warefare and haven't bothered to finish the actual game because they prefer to play online. These are PS3 owners though...

FH = Finest Hour
BRO = Big Red One

These are the console versions (kinda) of Call of Duty 1 and 2, if I'm not mistaken.

CoD = Call of Duty
WAW = World at war
MW = Modern Warfare

Just in case someone other than me has problems with acronyms.

truth be said, i didnt even no of the cod series until i got my ps3, and i saw a commercial or w.e for cod4

CoD 3 PS3 lacks data, bringing down the PS3 average, but MW clearly sent the series sky high

CoD4 was a beast graphically and gameplay wise. Modern day was something new for the frachise... the online is still one of the best shooters to date. Ad that to the already huge fanbase of CoD you have a lot of new fans made.

Cod4 at the time was the best in online. I can't wait for MW2.

Thanks Killergran, I should have written that out in the post, but typing it in the chart made the columns too cluttered.