Call of Duty: Ghosts sales decline 'troubling', says analyst

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Call of Duty: Ghosts is displaying a 'troubling' decline in sales versus its predecessors, according to an industry analyst.

Activision has said previously that it expects Ghosts sales to be down on last year's Black Ops 2 due to the upset of the console transition and they were; November sales showed a drop of 19 per cent year-on-year. But Cowen analyst Doug Creutz has warned investors that the declines could be notably worse than the reported 19 per cent dip would suggest.

"Upon further reflection, we think the [Call of Duty] numbers are a bit more troubling than they first appeared," said Creutz, reports VentureBeat.

He went on to note that the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Ghosts released almost two weeks earlier in November than Black Ops 2 (November 3 versus November 12 respectively), offsetting a portion of the sales drop which would have otherwise been far worse.

"While the year-over-year gap is only 19 percent thus far, that includes two extra weeks of sales for the 360 and PS3 versions [versus Black Ops II]. Against 2011′s [Modern Warfare 3], where the difference is only one week, the title is down 32 percent life-to-date," said Creutz.

The PS4 and Xbox One versions arrived later in the month, but failed to make up the sales deficit.

"We don't think it is out of the question that the title could wind up comparing down 20 percent to 25 percent year-over-year [to Black Ops II], which is appreciably worse than the down 10 to 15 percent that we think is baked in to guidance," predicted Creutz.

Despite its declines, Activision's FPS series is still in good health; Call of Duty: Ghosts was still the top-selling game in North America in November, according to NPD Figures. It's main rival, EA's Battlefield 4, came in second in the all-format software charts.

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HonkPosted:

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iJarH3ad Good! I want them to CRASH! So they can take more time to make normal call of duty game, all call of duty games are sh*tty since MW2. For real, I'm so disappointed of Infinity Ward and Treyarch. They do not understand what's classic call of duty are. They are just throwing full of dumb ideas to games and ruined it.


Treyarchs black ops games were amazing and how is it that all cod games after MW2 were garbage?


I did not really like BO1

ImHibbiPosted:

iJarH3ad Good! I want them to CRASH! So they can take more time to make normal call of duty game, all call of duty games are sh*tty since MW2. For real, I'm so disappointed of Infinity Ward and Treyarch. They do not understand what's classic call of duty are. They are just throwing full of dumb ideas to games and ruined it.


Treyarchs black ops games were amazing and how is it that all cod games after MW2 were garbage?

x32Posted:

All the call of duty games are now just getting repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again

YopPosted:

CoD Ghosts doesn't appeal to me as some of the other Call of Duty's

KatsumiPosted:

Honk
Flutterlicious The only reason BF4 is behind is because all the crashes and terrible FPS drops.

I dont really know how to say this but is is also because COD is more "known"


Pretty much. The popularity of Call of Duty is also a pushing factor on why Battlefield 4 is behind. The state that Battlefield was released in really doesn't help it though

ZooPalsPosted:

maybe its because people don't have 60$ every month a new game comes out other then little kids who ask buy the game with their parents money. Also GTA V barely came out like a month - month and a half before ghosts anyways and they chose the same month as release of the next gen consoles smh

HonkPosted:

Flutterlicious The only reason BF4 is behind is because all the crashes and terrible FPS drops.

I dont really know how to say this but is is also because COD is more "known"

VPNPosted:

I remember all my friends got MW3 and BO2 in the first week of release. Now no one in my school really has it.

KatsumiChanPosted:

The only reason BF4 is behind is because all the crashes and terrible FPS drops.

george3Posted:

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