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Forums - Gaming - Activision Admits 'Call of Duty: Ghosts' Didn't Outsell 'Black Ops 2' At Launch

Fifaguy360 on 08 November 2013

It was expected because of the transition..

Even FIFA 14 didn't outperform FIFA 13. We need to see how these games do on launch for next-gen to get the bigger picture.



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 08 November 2013
pezus said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Yet it made more money than GTA V... This may be the decline of CoD but its still very sad to see them sell so damn high...

Then you'd be assuming take two only shipped $800m-$1b worth of GTA. That is highly unlikely, since they sold $800m day one (to consumers)

Well... its not only that, I am taking into account how much each game probably costed to develop... I think GTA V took 295 million to make (correct me if I am wrong) And Ghosts probably took 40 million, even 50 million if lucky... So its not only how much did they both sold which Ghosts did sell the same amount as GTA V in day 1 if not more, Its also how much did each game took to make...

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Call-Duty-Ghosts-Sales-Hit-1-Billion-Did-It-Outsell-GTA-5-60368.html

Do take into account I have no hard facts of the development costs of Ghosts but I doubt it took much at all



                  

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BHR-3 on 08 November 2013

im one of those waiting for next gen release but after the reviews im not that hyped for it

dont think will see mw2/BO numbers till they get a new engine think they should take a break for at least a yr



                                                             

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Nsanity on 08 November 2013
BHR-3 said:
im one of those waiting for next gen release but after the reviews im not that hyped for it

dont think will see mw2/BO numbers till they get a new engine think they should take a break for at least a yr

Reviews? I think the outdated engine, copy and paste gameplay was enough to put many off.



Lulz on 08 November 2013
bananaking21 said:
Too_Talls said:

I imagine some people are holding off on getting it until the launch of the next gen consoles.......

So people don't get your hopes up thinking the cod hype is dead.


it certainly isnt. but it didnt beat GTA

Well COD releases a game every single year. GTA comes aorund once every 5 or so. Not really a fair comparison. I'm pretty sure Activision wouldn't swap the rights to CoD for the rights to GTA even if you held a gun to their head. CoD is a way bigger cash cow in the grand scheme of things.



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prayformojo on 08 November 2013

It's a generational thing. The teens that bought COD4 are growing up and moving on. It happens with all mainstream trends.



Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 08 November 2013
pezus said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
pezus said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Yet it made more money than GTA V... This may be the decline of CoD but its still very sad to see them sell so damn high...

Then you'd be assuming take two only shipped $800m-$1b worth of GTA. That is highly unlikely, since they sold $800m day one (to consumers)

Well... its not only that, I am taking into account how much each game probably costed to develop... I think GTA V took 295 million to make (correct me if I am wrong) And Ghosts probably took 40 million, even 50 million if lucky... So its not only how much did they both sold which Ghosts did sell the same amount as GTA V in day 1 if not more, Its also how much did each game took to make...

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Call-Duty-Ghosts-Sales-Hit-1-Billion-Did-It-Outsell-GTA-5-60368.html

Do take into account I have no hard facts of the development costs of Ghosts but I doubt it took much at all


No, my point is that Ghosts didn't come anywhere close to selling as much as GTAV day one. It sold less than $500m day one, while GTAV sold $800m. Simple as that. Even with the 200-250m difference in dev costs, GTA still profited more on day 1.

Ohh I see I see, I guess I missread lolll, makes sense



                  

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DonFerrari on 08 November 2013
Nsanity said:
BHR-3 said:
im one of those waiting for next gen release but after the reviews im not that hyped for it

dont think will see mw2/BO numbers till they get a new engine think they should take a break for at least a yr

Reviews? I think the outdated engine, copy and paste gameplay was enough to put many off.

We hope for that every year... but then, dumb gamers keep buying them =[



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para182 on 08 November 2013
prayformojo said:
It's a generational thing. The teens that bought COD4 are growing up and moving on. It happens with all mainstream trends.

 

This.  I remember being 16 and playing cod 4 those were the days. :G



NobleTeam360 on 08 November 2013

I have to say Ghosts is the first CoD game I regret spending money on...... horrible game so far.