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still more than triple most game sales so why care ?
Do you want sports games to add jetpacks and overshields? -_-
Do you want sports games to add jetpacks and overshields? -_-
Do you want sports games to add jetpacks and overshields? -_-
Despite reports that sales of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 are beginning to slow down compared to the rest of the franchise, analyst group Cowen and Company says that this decline is down to significantly reduced sales in the PC, Wii and handheld versions, rather than the console releases.
Cowen's Doug Creutz said in his latest report that while life-to-date Modern Warfare 3 retail sales are indeed down 4.6 percent year-over-year compared to Black Ops, sales of the game on the Xbox 360 and PS3 platforms are actually slightly up year-over-year.
However, large declines in sales of the versions of the game for Nintendo Wii, handheld platforms and PC have driven the overall decline, he suggests.
He also said that sales faced "a fairly stiff challenge" from EA's Battlefield 3 which launched around the same time as Modern Warfare 3, and he pointed out that EA will not be repeating this move again this year when the next Call of Duty is released.
Overall, Cowen and Company has "slightly trimmed" its sales estimate for the next Call of Duty title to reflect the year-over-year decline of Modern Warfare 3, but the analyst believes that the chances of success for the next title in the series will remain high.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/..._drove_Modern_Warfare_3_drop_says_analyst.php
So sales are down YoY on PC, Wii, and DS, but sales are actually up on the systems where it tends to sell the most. Makes sense I guess.
yeah, they have PC-centric BF3 with dedicated servers and some shitty port with no dedicated servers and no FOV options. Black Ops was a better package.
Yeah treat the PC gamers like shit and they'll actually refuse to buy your game for the most part unlike console gamers. Hopefully Activision learned this and I'll be interested to see if the next IW COD follows the lesson. I have faith Black Ops 2 will be similar to 1 though it better be a more solid game at launch than BO1.
Modern Warfare 3 online blows. That's why. A lot of people I know got so sick of it they went back to Black Ops.
I think the analysts might need to find a new profession if they really want to attribute this decline to casual gamers using their consoles for streaming video instead. I believe they've got cause and effect reversed on that one.
The real reason sales are slowing down is because the game type doesn't lend itself to the saturation Activision is throwing at it. Instead of people jumping to each new game like they do with Madden---presumably for roster updates---they're just fragmenting the CoD userbase between multiple CoD titles, causing sales for individual titles to not live up to what the first couple managed.
DICE had the same problem with bf2, its expansions, and 2142.
Infinity Ward can go and screw themselves, Black Ops was the peak of the Call of Duty franchise.
And all of this has to do with the lack of a Zombies mode, why would i want to play Military Shooter #98 when i can be driving RC cars, shooting explosive arrows, and recording my matches.
The amount of glee some people are expressing in here over this fact is pretty hilarious. Nothing against it - I'm not exactly a COD guy. But it's just funny to see so many people cheering its possible fall from grace.
Pretty much this. Wonder which genre will be the next "fad".The sooner Call of Duty stops making Call of Duty Money, the sooner publishers will stop trying to force everything into the Call of Duty mold.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/..._drove_Modern_Warfare_3_drop_says_analyst.php
So sales are down YoY on PC, Wii, and DS, but sales are actually up on the systems where it tends to sell the most. Makes sense I guess.