Activision: Call of Duty is Not a Dying Franchise
In relation to the original Skylanders he commented that the game "was a big risk, we focused on it, we brought all the resources we needed to it, we brought the right creative talent in to make it great and it's paying off."
Hirshberg adds that Activision has "done the same thing over the years with Call of Duty, I would argue better than anyone. We've kept that going long after all the skeptics thought it would start to falter and yet it still gains momentum, it still gains in size and engagement."
He says "a lot of... resources and time and capital" is contributed to the series' development and Call of Duty developers are encouraged to do "a few things exceptionally well."
Referring to Bungie's Destiny, which is being published by Activision, he said:
"We're a company that makes a few bets and when we go we go big, I think that that focused strategy is something that really pays off because it's really hard to make compelling content of this nature that's this deep and this vast, and I like that everybody's focused on doing a few things exceptionally well and getting them right.
"Obviously it starts with creative talent with our development studios, they know how to make great games, but it involves a lot of good work by a lot of different people from a lot of different disciplines to make these things catch fire. Did we sit down and know ahead of time how successful they would all be? No, of course, sometimes it even exceeds your own expectations, but we had confidence they were all winning ideas."
While each Call of Duty has been the biggest game of the year for the last several releases, 2013 will likely be different given the massive success of Grand Theft Auto 5 which generated $1 billion in revenue in three days. Call of Duty: Black Ops was the previous record holder hitting that figure in 15 days.
Activision warned in August that pre-orders for Call of Duty: Ghosts "are well below" those of Black Ops 2. However, GameStop recently announced that Ghosts is "on-track" to be the year's most pre-ordered title. This is likely because the game is being reserved regularly alongside a next-gen console.
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Professor_ChaosPosted:
In the end, CoD is the same thing over and over again. It will die out eventually. There's only so much they can do with the game now besides adding new guns and better graphics.
VisualModdingPosted:
Honestly i hope COD: Ghosts will be more like COD:4 and im sure a lot of people will agree. It was the best of all time and it will be remembered by many original gamers. Ghosts just may change the future for COD Gamers. However they said they were trying to disable quickscoping in Ghosts.
JystinPosted:
Sadly, Ghosts did outsell GTA V already, but I still do not think it is much as close as a better game than GTA V. COD, for me is basiclly, I buy it from a preorder, play for around a week or two, then just get sick and bored of the same repetitive actions. I do play it when I get bored. But, hopefully this COD, will change things around.
FamousPosted:
Ghosts already has more pre-orders then GTA V. It is automatically going to out sell GTA.
Relentless757Posted:
CoD is not the best franchise. Period. If you believe this, then CoD is the only game you played.
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