Last gen, doing exclusivity deals for xbox360 made senses, but it's a dumb financial decision to do exclusivity deal for xbox1.  Every 3rd party game is selling much better on the PS4 (in US and world) than on the xbox1.  

COD Advanced Warfare is a example of a dumb business decision by Activision, and COD AW is going to sell much worse than COD Ghosts.  

COD Ghosts sold about 10.5 million on PS4/PS3 combined and sold just 10.7 on Xbox360/Xbox1.  About 22 million across all consoles.  COD Advanced Warfare is going to have a big drop this year.  I don't think the sales will drop off too much for xbox versions, so I expect COD AW to sell about 9 million combined on Xbox360/xbox1.  However, the pre-orders for COD AW PS4/PS3 are significantly lagging behind.  I would be surprised if COD AW sell more than 7 million combined between PS4/PS3, and I think it'll probably on sell about 6 million.  So COD AW is going to have about 25-33% drop off in total sales.  

Activision may be competing against itself, but Destiny is going to outsell COD this year.  Even more concering for future of COD, majority of COD sales are going to be on the last gen consoles xbox360/ps3.  Majority of Destiny sales are going to be this gen consoles and a lionshare of sales are going to be on the PS4.

Moderated,

-Mr Khan

Awesome cause thats what we need... Cod needs to die and if this will make them have a drop in sales! I am happy

Doesn't seem to really effect PS sales of the game, so........

Edit: Also if the CoD thing is a bad business move, then the same should hold true for Destiny.

How much did MS pay for this exclusive deal? Oh you don't know? That seems like pretty important info if you're deeming it to be a bad business move.

Also, COD has declined over the last couple iterations, right? Not a stretch at all to say AW will drop.

Death of COD?

YES!!!! or at least they will change it into every 2 years :D

Things like this indicate to me that the publisher is ONLY concerned with profit because as far as artistic vision, it makes no sense at all. As an artist, why would you want to limit your tools of trade? The Xbone is weak and it's holding back games that are cross platform. So obviously, when a publisher signs exclusive deals with MS, it's 100% money based and for me, that's enough to never buy their products again. 

They cant just give up, otherwise that would make things worse than they already are.
But I agree, the way COD has deteriorated in the eyes of many gamers makes the exclusivity association with MS worthless to most people, but its still a selling point for hundreds of thousands of COD fans, who might have got a PS4 if it wasnt for the exclusivity.

This!!! And Software sells Hardware so it's always awesome for Microsoft to make exclusive deals with 3rd Party!!!

You're saying a few sales numbers but do you know how much MS actually paid for the deal? To be a bad business decision they would have to pay for it a lot and I don't think it's that much.

Any 3rd party exclusive deal is stupid even if its for the console in the lead. All it does is lower sales on the other platform