Battlefield 3 vs. Modern Warfare 3 war rages on

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EA and Activision have been trading barbs for a while now concerning their respective shooter titles, Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which will go head-to-head this fall. Recently, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick doubted Battlefield's presence on consoles, and EA boss John Riccitiello fired back, saying Activision feels "threatened" by Battlefield. During our meeting with Riccitiello at E3, he went even further, telling us that he wants Activision's franchise to "rot from the core," and he thought the pre-announcement of the Elite subscription was a terrible idea.

What does "rot from the core" mean? Essentially, he's saying that Call of Duty has become a mass market phenomenon but that hard core gamers will recognize the quality of Battlefield vs. Call of Duty this holiday and will, he believes, gravitate towards Battlefield instead.


Riccitiello began, "The honest truth is I think Modern Warfare is going to be a really good game. I think that in a weird way it’s starting to feel a little to me like the Disneyland abstraction of a war game – a little bit jump the shark. So it feels a little bit like that to me. And I think there’s a market for that. I think our game is more authentic. It’s definitely going to do a lot of things better. Lighting’s better, physics is better, animations are better, particle effects are better, vehicles are better. I think there’s a lot of things to like about our product and I think it’s going to be a great battle."

"So headline number one, having a clash of the titans in entertainment [is great]. If you’re battling your cholesterol drug versus somebody else’s cholesterol drug, there are only so many people who need cholesterol drugs. The market is getting bigger, but it’s all about cholesterol. So the market divides. Your chips versus my chips. Maybe it gets bigger. But this is great for consumers. When two titans go up against each other, and battle each other for how you’re going to spend your entertainment time and dollars, it doesn’t get better than that. So as a headline, I think this is the best time in the game industry. I love when this happens."

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Source: http://www.industrygamers.com/news/ea-ceo-wants-call-of-duty-to-rot-from-the-core/

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TTG_Minecraft_101Posted:

Honestly to tell you the truth even though I love COD because of quick scoping and what not. But once i saw the video on Battlefield it blew my mind! This game is going to have amazing graphics! Also, COD does actually repeat there games over and over again but I'm still a COD fan but i expect a lot better from COD now because i can tell from right now there selling are going to drop down rapidly and Battlefield is going to sell pretty quick! I also think that they should not come out with a game every year they need to wait at least 2 years or so to take out another COD game. Overall, I think that Battlefield has amazing graphics and I still love COD also I'ts just that they need to come up with new and in prove graphics and guns. They are both amazing games and I think they both will be successful.

-Makarov-Posted:

To me, this just seems childish. I mean really. It's a freaking video game. Yes they are making their living off of these but still. Just because people think one game is better than an other doesn't mean you have to be a winny little baby about it.

CanadianAirCadetsPosted:

there just mad cause MW3 will beat them... plus the CEO at EA is a complete dick.

codepokePosted:

3OH3 They should add in character dialog Eastere ggs saying how bad BF3 is in the actual game.... That'd be funny
stfu cod fanboy! if the CEOs of both companies can get along is it really that hard for people like you to shut up for once and get along with the BF community?

codepokePosted:

why is there still a war between these 2 games when robert bowling and daniel matros had a friendly game of BF3 and a friendly chat on twitter? IF THEY CAN DO IT IS IT REALLY THAT HARD FOR THE COMMUNITY TO DO IT?!

3OH3Posted:

They should add in character dialog Eastere ggs saying how bad BF3 is in the actual game.... That'd be funny

narutrunksPosted:

to tell you the truth i never liked mw just because when all this competitive things of quickscoping and all of that rose to a whole new level that almost every one who plays COD is obsessed with it. now battlefield on the other hand really defines online warfare and u do not get people complaining about every kill u get on them... this is all u hear in MW ooh i just got hard scoped. ooh u are bad kid. u are bad face me 1v1. and so on. in battlefield every one is friendly.... the gameplay in battlefield is so well made unlike COD. battlefield offers the best multiplayer quality and lets not even talk about COD. Battlefield is like a nice 5 star restaurant and COD is just that f***ed up hamburger place

shadow1Posted:

Okay, unless you can see in the future, you cant tell us how good a game would be. Im siding with BF this year and I do feel that Cod is going to die very soon. But none of you know which game will be better. Trailers dont mean anything either. Remember how we wet are pants like little girls when we saw BO trailers? Then we played it and it sucked, Its very likely its going to be like that with cod. Im nt saying BF3 is winner hands down, but its a likely chance it will.

generalgrant12Posted:

Forget-Me-Not-Fanboy So each of the last 4 CoD titles have sold 20 plus million copies, 4 of the Battlefield titles have sold 20 million put together. I'm pretty sure that is market dominance.


^^^^Obviously cant think on a complex level

MrZombeezPosted:

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SwAgGxNaStY Yea and where has Battlefield been since CoD4 WaW MW2 Blackops! BF2 SUCKS


it takes time to make a awesome well developed game and thats just what DICE did,it took them 5 years to make this game,it took infiityward 2 years to make a thrown together game and thats called mw2

you're saying you don't like mw2? well u can join the other 10 ppl that don't and are playing bf2 right now... haha nice try tho