CoD: Ghosts pre-orders 'well below' BO2 due to platform uncertainty

4.7
Consumer hesitation is 'as one would expect' during console transition, says Activision boss

Pre-orders for Call of Duty: Ghosts are "well below" that of last year's Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 owing to 'hesitation' caused by the looming console transition.

Activision Publishing president Epic Hirshberg said in an earnings call today, "As one might expect in this console transition year, pre-orders for Call of Duty: Ghosts are well below the record-setting pace set by Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 last year."

While no figures were disclosed, Hirshberg went on to say the company's "quantitative consumer research" indicates that "hesitation amongst past CoD pre-orderers is primarily due to not knowing which platform they'll be playing on, which is natural at this time in the console transition."

It is unclear whether any other factors, such as generally softening interest, have contributed to the pre-order slump.

On the positive side, Hirshberg noted, "Ghosts pre-orders are over double those of Call of Duty: Black Ops, which is the last time we launched a new sub-brand for the franchise."

He went on to assure that the company has in place "the most aggressive marketing, retail, and digital programs in the history of the franchise" for this year's entry, which is set to arrive on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, PC and Wii U.

Despite the dip in pre-orders for the next CoD, Hirshberg cl;aimed that Call of Duty's digital sales in Q2 2013 (ended June 30) broke records, growing "over 100 per cent year-on-year".

Black ops 2 sales during the quarter also exceeded Modern Warfare 3 sales during the same period the year prior.

Activision has confirmed a Call of Duty: Ghosts release date of November 5 on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. The game will be a launch title for Xbox One and PS4.

Posted:
Related Forum: Call of Duty Forum

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/422178/cod-ghosts-pre-orders-well-below-black-ops-2-due-to-platform-uncertainty/

Related Articles

Comments

"CoD: Ghosts pre-orders 'well below' BO2 due to platform uncertainty" :: Login/Create an Account :: 124 comments

If you would like to post a comment please signin to your account or register for an account.

ImNotChuckNorrisPosted:

EDIT: COD Ghosts pre-orders 'well below' BO2 due to Battlefield 4 being a much more exciting, thought-through and entertaining experience

HDITeRRoRiZeIPosted:

HuntersMods
HUG3M0US3
HDITeRRoRiZeI It's the same game year-after-year and they wonder why they are losing on Pre-orders and sales. They lost sales on BO2, and they are shocked that they are losing this time round as well, they need there heads looking at if they think they are making progres vs other game companies such as Rockstar Games or Ubisoft for example.

I Hope this Franchise fails soon because the Game Developers need to be shot, every one of them. They make no changes to the games, apart from the animations and FX and a new story line which I suppose is the only thing keeping up along with Zombies.

If Ghost's doesn't have Dedicated Server's, then they can count me out for another year running.


Its true, just wish we (customer) could have more of an imput on the game as we do pay for it


Just because you do not like the game does not mean everyone hates it, there are actually quite alot of people that do like the game even though they are repetitive because there is not a game like this on the market with this type of gameplay and before you say battlefield, there is no way you could play MLG and many other things on battlefield because the gameplay is too slow paced. And your saying they lost sales on black ops 2 when that game set the highest sales for any call of duty game released? Dont really think that makes sense and to be fair the franchise of COD has got a long way to go before it fails because when everyone has chosen their consoles which they want t play on they will buy the game, just cos pre-orders aint sky high dont mean people are not buying the game.


Well could you explain the fact that they have lost sales and pre-orders. I agree that there isn't any other game on the market but that isn't an excuse to not improving the game like Dedicated servers, security and a whole lot more which I could name. They could have improved the clan systems a whole lot more and imo, COD:ELITE was just a waste of time.

I liked the game until the Lag Compensation **** the game up. Why should I alow some noobs steal my internet speed for the sake of them not having good connection speeds? Instead they should have introduced Dedicated Servers to stop this, but no they won't for 'Some' reason.

TitanFallPosted:

I like cod because its just fun it is getting boring faster now than before but its still fun. People like cod so much because you can always play online its not something like borderlands once you finish the campaign there isn't really much to do until DLC comes out.
To be honest saying cod will die soon is just pure stupidity, it will take a lot of time for it to die.

PS i love Battlefield and i do play other games like gta,forza,c&c

GossipPosted:

The console thing is actually confusing though.

LuckyOtterPosted:

HuntersMods
HUG3M0US3
HDITeRRoRiZeI It's the same game year-after-year and they wonder why they are losing on Pre-orders and sales. They lost sales on BO2, and they are shocked that they are losing this time round as well, they need there heads looking at if they think they are making progres vs other game companies such as Rockstar Games or Ubisoft for example.

I Hope this Franchise fails soon because the Game Developers need to be shot, every one of them. They make no changes to the games, apart from the animations and FX and a new story line which I suppose is the only thing keeping up along with Zombies.

If Ghost's doesn't have Dedicated Server's, then they can count me out for another year running.


Its true, just wish we (customer) could have more of an imput on the game as we do pay for it


Just because you do not like the game does not mean everyone hates it, there are actually quite alot of people that do like the game even though they are repetitive because there is not a game like this on the market with this type of gameplay and before you say battlefield, there is no way you could play MLG and many other things on battlefield because the gameplay is too slow paced. And your saying they lost sales on black ops 2 when that game set the highest sales for any call of duty game released? Dont really think that makes sense and to be fair the franchise of COD has got a long way to go before it fails because when everyone has chosen their consoles which they want t play on they will buy the game, just cos pre-orders aint sky high dont mean people are not buying the game.


Looks at CoD's twitter feed if you actually believe most people like it. They get more hate than Justin Bieber.

HuntersModsPosted:

HUG3M0US3
HDITeRRoRiZeI It's the same game year-after-year and they wonder why they are losing on Pre-orders and sales. They lost sales on BO2, and they are shocked that they are losing this time round as well, they need there heads looking at if they think they are making progres vs other game companies such as Rockstar Games or Ubisoft for example.

I Hope this Franchise fails soon because the Game Developers need to be shot, every one of them. They make no changes to the games, apart from the animations and FX and a new story line which I suppose is the only thing keeping up along with Zombies.

If Ghost's doesn't have Dedicated Server's, then they can count me out for another year running.


Its true, just wish we (customer) could have more of an imput on the game as we do pay for it


Just because you do not like the game does not mean everyone hates it, there are actually quite alot of people that do like the game even though they are repetitive because there is not a game like this on the market with this type of gameplay and before you say battlefield, there is no way you could play MLG and many other things on battlefield because the gameplay is too slow paced. And your saying they lost sales on black ops 2 when that game set the highest sales for any call of duty game released? Dont really think that makes sense and to be fair the franchise of COD has got a long way to go before it fails because when everyone has chosen their consoles which they want t play on they will buy the game, just cos pre-orders aint sky high dont mean people are not buying the game.

generalhunterPosted:

People are pre-ordering the better game = GTA V

generalhunterPosted:

MW3 was the most garbage COD and Ghosts will be worse

HUG3M0US3Posted:

HDITeRRoRiZeI It's the same game year-after-year and they wonder why they are losing on Pre-orders and sales. They lost sales on BO2, and they are shocked that they are losing this time round as well, they need there heads looking at if they think they are making progres vs other game companies such as Rockstar Games or Ubisoft for example.

I Hope this Franchise fails soon because the Game Developers need to be shot, every one of them. They make no changes to the games, apart from the animations and FX and a new story line which I suppose is the only thing keeping up along with Zombies.

If Ghost's doesn't have Dedicated Server's, then they can count me out for another year running.


Its true, just wish we (customer) could have more of an imput on the game as we do pay for it

HDITeRRoRiZeIPosted:

Dr_Zoidberg
HDITeRRoRiZeI It's the same game year-after-year and they wonder why they are losing on Pre-orders and sales. They lost sales on BO2, and they are shocked that they are losing this time round as well, they need there heads looking at if they think they are making progres vs other game companies such as Rockstar Games or Ubisoft for example.

I Hope this Franchise fails soon because the Game Developers need to be shot, every one of them. They make no changes to the games, apart from the animations and FX and a new story line which I suppose is the only thing keeping up along with Zombies.

If Ghost's doesn't have Dedicated Server's, then they can count me out for another year running.

So just because they make a game, similar to all of the others in the franchise, they all deserve to be shot. Wow, thats a little much.


Yes, i think that would be correct. They make no efforet and cry when they lose their fan-base. You see no other Game Devs doing this. They could have had a new engine years ago, they could have had dedicated servers years ago, but they couldn't be bothered because they are a waste of peoples time.


Latest Downloads

Latest Tutorials