Video Game sales Down 28%, COD down 20%

If you were in it for some of the series, they are coming to an end or got stale. Basically the triple A part of the industry went downhill.
Maybe that will be solved by a new generation. Personally I think these developers are now being run by people who do not understand gaming and as such will not be sustainable.
Gaming is not coming to an end. I think crowdsourcing / indi are on a rise and triple A going down because of not treating customers well.

Also if you look at Activision they are one of the richest and worst publishers. It couldn't have gone well for long. Aside from COD their list of games is worse than Atari or Koei or any company worth mentioning really. They never had business sense. I think they got lucky once, and now they're f'ed.

I would think most people here can agree that Black Ops 2 is a much better game then recent CODsManeil99

This generation has gone on too long and become too predictable and boring.

I remember earlier this gen when a new game and concept was announced and you would omgbbqsauce and j*zz just thinking about it, now for 95% of games it's like, "oh they're doing this, or making this game, cooooool", but nothing more.

The multiplayer is the closest thing I have played on console to feeling like I was playing a PC FPS..AmazonTreeBoa

Are the only PC FPS games you play CoD clones?

Black Ops 2 is my first CoD this gen and I think it is awesome. A lot better than I was expecting. The multiplayer is the closest thing I have played on console to feeling like I was playing a PC FPS. Sure PC FPSs will always be better, but this still makes me feel like I am on PC more than any other FPS I have played on console. I am playing it on PS3 btw. People can knock the game all they wish. I couldn't care less because I own it and am having a blast playing it and watching my kids play it and improve is fun too. I finally ordered a second controller (Urban camouflage) just so we could play together. I also liked the campaign as well. I plan on buying the first Black Ops so I know the whole story. In fact, the only real complaint I have about the game is that they removed Nuketown. Other than that, I can't complain. I am loving all the things you can unlock in multiplayer. So you guys complain about Black Ops 2 till you are blue in the face for all I care. You do that while I enjoy playing the game.AmazonTreeBoa

good on you man, cod is a damn good game.

hipsters hate it because its popular... but its one of the few games enlisting hollywood talent, and some of the best creative minds in the industry.

i mean yea its annual, but its not a roster update like madden... you have the writers from the dark knight working on the script and actual hollywood actors doing the voice overs.

hipsters hate it because its popular...

BeardMaster

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Sales are down cause way too many games are coming out, I've spent around $900 on games this year which is actually a lot cheaper than last year. Majority of people don't have the money to spend on numerous amounts of games.

Also towards the people that think new gen = better game sales and better games, stop being an idiot please, just don't talk at all .The first few years of a gen are always the worst in terms of sales and "quality".

Lets take a look back in memory lane of the start of this gen

PS3:

• Resistance Fall of Man
• NBA 07
• Genji
• Blazing Angels Squardrons of WW2
• CoD 3
• Fight Night round 3
• Oblivion
• Folklore
• Madden 07
• MUA
• Mobile Suit Gundam CF
• Full Auto 2
• NBA 2K7
• NHL 2K7
• Ridge Racer 7
• Untold Legends Dark Kingdom
• Sonic The Hedgehog
• R6 Vegas

360:

• Amped 3
• CoD 2
• Condemned: CO
• FIFA 06
• Gun
• Kameo
• NBA 2K6
• Madden NFL 06
• NBA Live 06
• Need For Speed MW
• NHL 2K6
• PDZ
• Peter Jackson's King Kong
• Progect Gotham Racing 3
• Quake 4
• Ridge Racer 6
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06

Wii:

• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Call of Duty 3
• Excite Truck
• Happy Feet
• Madden NFL 07
• Monster 4x4 World Circuit
• Need for Speed: Carbon
• Rampage: Total Destruction
• Red Steel
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
• Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• Trauma Center: Second Opinion
• Wii Sports
• Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
• Rayman Raving Rabbids

Look at them high quality amazing games.....

i guess pokemon is the only remaining fad

Meeeper282

[QUOTE="AmazonTreeBoa"] The multiplayer is the closest thing I have played on console to feeling like I was playing a PC FPS..Ly_the_Fairy

Are the only PC FPS games you play CoD clones?

This generation has gone on too long and become too predictable and boring.

I remember earlier this gen when a new game and concept was announced and you would omgbbqsauce and j*zz just thinking about it, now for 95% of games it's like, "oh they're doing this, or making this game, cooooool", but nothing more.

SaltyMeatballs

Yeah, absolutely this.

Every game, with few exceptions, is just doing things we've already seen before. I said on another board, that pretty much every AAA game coming out looks identical to me, even if they operate in different genres.

Imagine two totally different newly released games and then draw up a Ven diagram. It's probably pretty scary how many things overlap between the two. They're all boiling down to the same formulas, disguised by a coat of paint on top. At the start of this generation, every bullshot released got me salivating, now it's just par for the course and I barely notice.

I hope either of the next two consoles release in no more than a year, anything beyond that, and it's not even funny anymore.

Well it's 2012 after all...