I was doing some pondering about the next gen and Sony's PS4 when COD came to my mind aswell its no secret that the franchise is one of the biggest if not the biggest gaming has ever seen, the games releasing year after year are surpassing most everyones sales expectations, even the PS3s sku.  I believe this will continue with MW3 set to release this year and the rest of the CODs this gen and the next, with this belief comes some concern for Sony and there release strategies going forward.  The PS3 released a full year later than the 360 and even more than a year in Europe, if MS release there next gen Xbox a year earlier again i believe the PS3 will be at a bigger disadvantage than it was this gen. 

I believe this because if we simply look at the last installment of COD Black ops you'll see that it sold upwards of 10M in its first week across all platforms and by the end of that year it sold double that.  Now if the next MS console releases earlier than Sony's and by that time COD will be running on a new engine it wouldnt be hard for me to believe that even half of the audience from Black Ops' data would want to have the best possible experience with there COD and other than a PC they would have to go with MSs next gen console.  I believe this would put Sony at a severe disadvantage even on a global scale, MS will have a huge heads up in terms of market share by the time Sony releases there PS4 and we see how this affected Sony this gen with the minor advantage MS had the gen in terms of releasing early

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Fuck Call of Duty, they'll live?

I disagree. You assume that Activision will only release that COD on the next gen Xbox. More likely they'll release it on everything under the sun like they always do, so PS3 (and Xbox 360) fans will still get their version and it won't be very different from the next gen version except maybe in graphics. Just look at the Wii version of Black Ops. For a casual player it's the same as the PS3/360 version.

Activision is money hungry, they will wait until they can gouge every person possible.

They released World at War on the PS2 when the PS3 was out.

Hmm very interesting analysis. I am going to agree with you. HOWEVER, Nextbox is not going to sell 13M units it's first year due to price point therefore the COD effect is a little lower than you anticipate. If 2 instalments came out there would be hell to pay.

good point but thats assuming COD still sales like that next gen but once again great point.

look at it as a double edged sword(although i prefer Katanas) be dammed if they do or don't, but i don't think t will effect PS4 that much with PS3 and 360 likely still being out and that new engine you referred to being used on them as well.

on the other hand who knows whts going to be big next gen? maybe create, play, share while shooters get shown the back door.

eitherway who ever plays there cards right will get wht they want out of next gen.

1. Call of duty sucks and people are stupid for buying it over and over.
2. It will be on ps3 and the next xbox version will look and play about the same.

Good thinking. I agree.

Sony rushing to release the PS4 because of COD would be the last thing I wanted them to do.