Call of Duty: Ghosts sales decline 'troubling', says 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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FibrilPosted:
The campaign was good but the Multiplayer is COMPLETE shit. Really bad maps and spawns. They need to go back to CoD4 and continue from there.
Aruss94Posted:
i wonder if they actually sold a millions copies of i... and no not to the retailers.. like 1 million actually sold to the pblic
AgonyPosted:
I enjoyed Ghosts, but it got boring fast for me. The majority of my friends didn't like it and went back to playing BO2. I don't think many players did like the game, so they recommended their friends to not buy it. That is why I think the sales really went down. Correct me if I'm wrong.
DemonSurferPosted:
Nothing new,that's the problem.Zombies was the best part of COD tbh.I stopped buying the map packs and then just stopped playing it alltogether not long after BO2 came out and even stopped buying Live,it's just no fun anymore.All the modded joypads and stupid kids playing it doesn't help either.Mostly play Killzone Shadowfall now anyways.I don't think they really try any more and just "expect" people will buy it.
VapePosted:
I personally love cod. IF gives me the fast pace game play that I like and that battle field never gave me. Titan fall for the xbox one looks cool though I think it will be better then cod.
IntPosted:
That's because call of duty is dying I didn't even buy this one after buying all of them..
Evo8Posted:
berk549 Looks like BF4 is getting the upper hand in sales
As long as they fix all the bugs, I will go back to playing it.
willybixPosted:
Honk-CPXeXChamp This game was pretty good i liked it
Nobody really likes CoD. They just get it to play with their friends and waste time. I know this and I did this.
I like COD especially playing it competitive.
I agree that the competitive side to it is fun at times but online is not great personally.
I-DA-KINGPosted:
Call of duty is a dying game that gets worse every year, I tried to enjoy playing this game for 2 weeks but could't stand it & have't put it in my console since, Most of my friends who played COD a lot did't buy this game
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