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[Afro Republican]

(On consoles of course)

COD since WAW had gained such a foothold that it was the dominant franchise that gen. Huge numbers with frequent output even peak madden/fifa never reached.

Over time as this gen came around the series started declining, the launch of Ghosts is when people expected the series would continue to decline and become less relevant. Well they were wrong.

Very Wrong.

Now COD has been up the last few entries and is still dominating the charts.

Do you think COD will continue to to be the dominant franchise with the Xbox 4 and the PS5? Or do you think it will FINALLY start falling next gen? Because COD streak is over 10 years old and counting.

 

[captainraincoat]

I actually think halo will make a comeback

There is no doubt that black ops 4 is the best cod in years but they will basically be treading the same ground again and there is only so many times you can do that.

Halo has the ability to do so many different things as it’s not bogged down by the setting
I would be expecting a large scale war on a huge ass map and within that lots of hotspot areas for more close range fights...fortnite does this very well as there are areas you know your gonna have a close range fight and areas your gonna have a sniper fight.

Looking forward to them trying though

 

[Kadayi]

Online shooters aren't really my bag these days, but a fuck tonne of people love them, and I don't imagine that's going to change anytime soon.

 

[J-Roderton]

I think it it says COD on it people will continue to throw money at it for the foreseeable future.

 

[anthraticus]

Online shooters aren't really my bag these days, but a fuck tonne of people love them, and I don't imagine that's going to change anytime soon.

I was thinking people would have grown bored of this by now, but I guess not.

Many prob do it because their friends play and it's some type of social thing for them though.

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

Yes, it will keep selling. Probably for the next several years. For some reason casual gamers are addicted to FPS games. Don’t get me wrong, they are normally fun to play but I just feel like I’m playing the same game over and over again with most FPS games. Controversial opinion, but most of them even look and feel the same to me with the similar gameplay mechanics and characters.

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

Good thing you added the 'console only' caveat. I've been playing Ironsight on my PC which is basically COD, but free.

 

[Ten_Fold]

Cod is the madden of fps it’s going to sell well. I just don’t see it falling off anytime soon.

 

[Musky_Cheese]

See as how many of the MP games are launching with huge problems, I don't see COD being irrelevant for years. Because at the end of the day regardless of how you think of their product, it actually works better than most. And that says a lot to me personally.

 

[Mochilador]

Afro Republican deserves a tag. The guy who loves making polls.

 

[Raven117]

Yup. It will keep on going so long as the pump out quality games (Which by and large, they do for their fanbase).

 

[120v]

there's going to be some flops (by CoD standards) but yeah it's not going anywhere. question is whether they'll keep doing annual releases or just end up making it some huge GaaS kind of thing, which i could see happening like 5+ years from now

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

It will, i just dont see how it can ever slow down unless we get another competitor to just whipe everyone off the floor.

Ive been playing since day one and its been 15 years now? Before BLOPS4, team deathmatch was all I played. I never cared for Battle Royale but let me tell you, for me at least, COD is a BR game now. I honestly only play it for that, completely left the traditional MP which I played for over a decade. At least while BR is alive I expect every future COD to have that mode. However I do wish they go back to tue campaign but Im afraid that BLOPS4 is such a success that other teams or even Activision themself could rule it out and from this year COD becomes exclusively an online experience.

 

[JohnnyFootball]

It will be big until it stops being big. However, Fortnite is a big competitor

 

[Iced Arcade]

For traditional annual sales sure.

But long life games that run like a service like mindcraft, fortnite, pubg, sea of thieves etc are the new wave.

 

[Codes 208]

Is there a cod (post cod4) that didn’t dominate?

Even at its worst (ghosts and IW) cod still typically roflstomps every other competitor.

 

[EssKayZee]

Afro Republican deserves a tag. The guy who loves making polls.

NeoGAF's Resident Poll Genie

 

[Shmunter]

If MW4 makes an appearance, it will be the biggest COD in history!

 

[LucidFeuer]

I don't know, there was a time CoD was a deserved universal success because of it's breakthrough cinematography, graphics and gameplay. Then it became fat dorito couch potato crap, but it continued being successful like most online degeneracy because of the degenerate younger generation (the same who play Fortnite over and over).

Will the world run-out of dumb tasteless couch potatos? Unlikely until there's a well deserved war, so I guess CoD will continue being successful, especially after CoD BOIIII which had literally no solo campaign, he's an unoriginal even unrelated milking of the BO series, so why should they do even worse like pay-to-win grinding, "optional" advertisement, 60€ DLCs...frankly they should milk and ruin those dumb ****.

 

[Humdinger]

Probably. I don't really care, though. I'm not into MP online shooters.

 

[Shmunter]

I don't know, there was a time CoD was a deserved universal success because of it's breakthrough cinematography, graphics and gameplay. Then it became fat dorito couch potato crap, but it continued being successful like most online degeneracy because of the degenerate younger generation (the same who play Fortnite over and over).

Will the world run-out of dumb tasteless couch potatos? Unlikely until there's a well deserved war, so I guess CoD will continue being successful, especially after CoD BOIIII which had literally no solo campaign, he's an unoriginal even unrelated milking of the BO series, so why should they do even worse like pay-to-win grinding, "optional" advertisement, 60€ DLCs...frankly they should milk and ruin those dumb ****.

And I would simplify all that down to: The gameplay, particularly the feel of the gunplay makes the franchise best in class. And until something is better, it will always be on top.

They were hoping with Titanfall. But unfortunately as we’ve seen, people are down on Sci fi acrobatics so it didn’t stick.

 

[MDSLKTR]

Battlefield is dead, so is Battlefront. Titanfall too niche and hard to play for casuals. I don't see Bungie touching Destiny after they finish their contract ends. So yup.
But I could see Halo making a big comeback, like Halo 2/3 big.

 

[SpartanN92]

I agree that Halo Infinite has amazing potential.

If Activision can get off their asses and convince one of their studios to make a legit Modern Warfare 4 then I think CoD will still be the king.

 

[Airbus Jr]

Look closely at how the recent call of duty game sales perform vs lastgen cod

Take a look at mw2, blops, mw 3 and compare it to the recent current gen cod game like ghost, infinte war, blops 3 and ww 2

You l be surprised to see the huge difference

They gradually went from a "behemoth series" into a "great performing series" in videogame charts

I'm not saying call of duty gonna die straight away in a few years...but the sign of decline is real..if Activision doesn't innovate and continue to milk, call of duty might have similar fate to Guitar Hero someday

 

[Catphish]

Afro Republican deserves a tag. The guy who loves making polls.

I propose: "Poll Writer"

Give it a second...

 

[SonGoku]

Maybe... But if they don't build a new more modern and capable engine they will start losing to the competition whose engines do so much more especially.
Right now cod worlds are sterile and already showing age, i don't think its gonna fly so well next gen

No 60 fps excuse anymore, since battlefield and battlefront are already hitting close to that target, i imagine that with actually decent Ryzen CPUs COD would be in an even worse situation where the competition games look and play leagues beyond

 

[Afro Republican]

Look closely at how the recent call of duty game sales perform vs lastgen cod

Take a look at mw2, blops, mw 3 and compare it to the recent current gen cod game like ghost, infinte war, blops 3 and ww 2

You l be surprised to see the huge difference

They gradually went from a "behemoth series" into a "great performing series" in videogame charts

I'm not saying call of duty gonna die straight away in a few years...but the sign of decline is real..if Activision doesn't innovate and continue to milk, call of duty might have similar fate to Guitar Hero someday

Well actually, if we start at Modern Warfare one at 2007, since that when COD went popular, and stopped before Ghosts (which was the first next gen COD):

that's 138+ million of the first 6 games of last gen.

To 95+ million across the 6 games this gen, however keep in mind that Black Ops 4 just came out, so that should easily go over 115+ million, of course depending on how successful the game is.

That's really not that big of a difference. If Ghosts and Advanced Warfare were handled a bit better they would liekly be even.

 

[LucidFeuer]

And I would simplify all that down to: The gameplay, particularly the feel of the gunplay makes the franchise best in class. And until something is better, it will always be on top.

They were hoping with Titanfall. But unfortunately as we’ve seen, people are down on Sci fi acrobatics so it didn’t stick.

I don't personally understand that. If you want to have the feel of the gunplay, practice some actual target range or paintball. Of but that wouldn't be fun in those mondaine plains...so I would think that the actual universe, design or immersion would matter like in...you know most video games masterpieces and what made it art.

So why are people okay with CoD not having any single campaign, not having the slight originality or creativity in design, nor depth? Besides the overdone formula and crazy DLC prices, I was okay with CoD as long as it stand for a specific narrative universe and design, and I also think the Zombie DLC and all the easter egg and secret missions were great.

In fact I'd also hope that the "sci-fi acrobatics" is something that make an immersive gameplay even more fun, interesting and challenging, but no, fucking dumb stupid dorito mountain dew douche war games like CoD continue to be popular, with it's kid equivalent being Fortnite. So yes, video game for that reasons and few other is dead, but people will continue to play the same CoD over and over again, that I'm sure of.

 

[CloudStrife_ca]

Unfortunately it will continue to be big, COD has established itself like this gens GI Joe, somewhere in the world some uninformed child will get his first COD game this Christmas and because he knows his older brother played it at one point or his friends play it, he'll be so high on hype, he wont need the can of Monster or Mountain Dew. people will just continue to buy it like we all buy copies of NHL or Madden each year.

I feel like alot of veteran gamers could really care less about it. The only point I was excited for the series again was when it went back to WWII, I've never liked when this series heads into the future. Leave that stuff to Titanfall, Respawn does it better anyways.

 

[TeamGhobad]

If the rumors are correct and CoD is going back to the Modern Warfare universe then yes.

 

[Sub_Level]

I sure hope CoD stays on top. Its fun as fuck.

 

[Stuart360]

People said it wouldnt dominate this gen, and it did.

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

 

[ANIMAL1975]

Haven't bought a COD since aw, due to wallet priorities. The plus freebies and psn sales under 10 euros have been a savior!... But god how i miss killing some zombies with my son in Nuketown, Shangri-la, Der Riese! Lol that should answer your question

 

[DarthBuzzer]

Yes, CoD will do really well for at least half of the generation. I think the FPS genre is going to crash by the end though as it makes the VR transition due to too much stagnation.

 

[Sub_Level]

I think the FPS genre is going to crash by the end though as it makes the VR transition due to too much stagnation.

If anything, VR is gonna take the FPS genre and send it into overdrive.

I mean first person porn and first person job trainer simulations alone are gonna be two huge industries. The FPS games in 10 years will be insane.

 

[Danjin44]

Its god damn online shooter.

 

[PSYGN]

Yes, it's a casual gamer's yearly franchise game sitting amongst Fifa, Madden, and NBA 2k.

 

[VertigoOA]

It’s gonna be bigger than ever. Glad they finally dropped the campaign and have a more successful game because of it.

I’d hope they’d just build on Black ops 4 and drop yearly releases for the time being.

 

[VertigoOA]

Yes, CoD will do really well for at least half of the generation. I think the FPS genre is going to crash by the end though as it makes the VR transition due to too much stagnation.

Sounds like a Gaming Age post from 2002.

 

[DarthBuzzer]

If anything, VR is gonna take the FPS genre and send it into overdrive.

I mean first person porn and first person job trainer simulations alone are gonna be two huge industries. The FPS games in 10 years will be insane.

That's what I meant. The FPS genre is going to be mostly VR-centric by the end of the next generation, so you could consider it a crash of sorts since it all stems from the stagnation going on, that will continue to happen as there really isn't much left to do without VR.

If CoD is a thing in 10 years, it's not going to be playable without VR. Same with Battlefield.

 

[Afro Republican]

People said it wouldnt dominate this gen, and it did.

To be fair Ghosts made things look really unclear.

 

[SlashBringingHasher]

yes but. this year's cod sold the least/will sell the least. and it wont ever be as big as it was with the height of the start of last gen

 

[Afro Republican]

yes but. this year's cod sold the least/will sell the least. and it wont ever be as big as it was with the height of the start of last gen

COD is on an upward trend right now.

 

[SlashBringingHasher]

COD is on an upward trend right now.

it doesn't seem like it. they made a 500 million debut. usually. they break 1bn. the sales are vastly down. also gamestop said the sales are heavily down

digital sales are up. but overall sales. definitely down. with many many open world games adding a lot of grinding content and online modes. they are eating at CODs playerbase.

 

[InterMusketeer]

I want to believe it will decline.

 

[Afro Republican]

it doesn't seem like it. they made a 500 million debut. usually. they break 1bn. the sales are vastly down. also gamestop said the sales are heavily down

digital sales are up. but overall sales. definitely down. with many many open world games adding a lot of grinding content and online modes. they are eating at CODs playerbase.

WWII did better than Infinite, so we'll have to see where BLK Ops 4's legs take it and see if it continues the trend.