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‘Call of Duty’ sees first year-over-year decline this generation

By on December 7, 2012
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Are the trends we’ve come to accept finally reversing? That’s the question everyone in the industry is asking right now. Thanks to Gamasutra, we now know that according to November’s NPD numbers, Black Ops II saw 14 percent less sales than last year’s Modern Warfare 3. With “only” 7.4 million copies sold, this is the first time that a Call of Duty installment has seen a decline since the the franchise took off with the original Modern Warfare.

It is worth noting that Black Ops II also had seven fewer days than Modern Warfare 3 did, however, estimates still put it well below the 8.8 million mark that it’s predecessor obtained.

What are you hoping for? This is generally a very polarizing topic in the industry right now, and it sure can’t hurt to speculate what could happen next.

Note: These numbers only include PS3 and Xbox 360 copies sold.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/nigel.holmes2 Nigel Holmes

    Because battlefield 3 is by far better than cod, their small scale shoot that guy as he spawns, small map bs is getting very old.

  • Richard Lloyd-Roberts

    because the Black ops 1 on PS was crap

  • Mr_nite

    Black ops 2 is just a shitty game for multiplayer, word got out before more people wasted their money

  • mike

    Its following, in my opinion, the worst cod installment(MW3), which is unfair. Black ops 2 is definitely a great fast paced first person shooter. Well worth the money

  • http://www.facebook.com/david.prince.10004 David Prince

    Black Ops II still made $1 billion. Hardly a harbinger of doom.

  • jim

    Black ops was shit. Why would I get #2?? Treyarch doesn’t do as good a job like infinity ward.

  • Richard Tietjens

    It’s the economy, stupid! People are desperately trying to pay the fraudulent mortgages, feed their families, and hope they can survive when the GOP crashes the economy again just to prove they can do it. Many fewer people can afford to spend any money at all on a game, and COD is not one of the “bargain bin” games either.

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