GTA has managed to continue to improve on its gameplay, though, whereas Call of Duty has seen little innovation since the original Modern Warfare. Look at GTA3, then compare it to GTA4-- GTA4 absolutely eats GTA3 for breakfast as far as immersion and production values are concerned. That is the advantage of GTA's model vs. Call of Duty's. GTA does not release games nearly as often, and when they do release one they put everything they can into it. Call of Duty is on an anual release model, and it's only a matter of time before it becomes semi-anual like Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero did. If CoD continues to completely dwarf anything else in Activision's portfolio, they will ask themselves "why are we only releasing this once a year?" And then that is where it will end-- assuming people don't just get tired of playing the same game every year with new maps before then.Nah, GTA will die before COD does.
COD will go on forever.
Obviously_Right
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lol GTA lost it's crown as the hardcore best selling game.... they Mad..
lol GTA lost it's crown as the hardcore best selling game.... they Mad..
KBFloYd
They also haven't cheapened the franchise by releasing a new one every year.
Say what you want about his motivations for saying what he did but you can't deny that, in the end, he's absolutely right. Call of Duty peaked with Black Ops. Of course, it's still selling millions but there's no denying that its glory days are behind it as a franchise.
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lol GTA lost it's crown as the hardcore best selling game.... they Mad..
The_Game21x
They also haven't cheapened the franchise by releasing a new one every year.
Say what you want about his motivations for saying what he did but you can't deny that, in the end, he's absolutely right. Call of Duty peaked with Black Ops. Of course, it's still selling millions but there's no denying that its glory days are behind it as a franchise.
There is no way to make sweeping changes to the franchise either, because they are stuck on a 2 year development cycle for each game (since they have two studios making the it). We will probably never see them change engines since it's cheaper and faster to just keep using the Quake engine, and even though they have made some gradual improvements and will likely add DirectX 11 support for the "next-gen" version, the series has become stagnant. The only way they could make the big changes that the franchise would need to stay fresh would be to take 2 years off without a new one, and something tells me Activision would rather cancel the series outright than accept it on a bi-annual or tri-annual release.
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