The frequency with which Call of Duty games get released means that their annual or bi-annual releases become almost background noise - as surely as there'll be an annual FIFA release, so too there be an almost-annual CoD release.
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The Elder Scrolls series may not be as prolific as Call of Duty, but that's part of what gives it its prestige and mystique. The next Elder Scrolls, however, is a whole other story. Of course Call of Duty also has a highly committed hardcore community that genuinely loves these games, but it also relies on a more casual gaming audience - an audience that may not necessarily be assed to go through the discomfort of following it over to another games console should platform exclusivity kick in. I never even counted CoD among my favourite games - it was simply something of a default game to get, a baseline for a 20-something console owner like myself. I know because I used to do this myself, queuing up outside the local supermarket to get heavily discounted versions of Modern Warfare 1-3 on launch day on the PS3.
It's the kind of game that many gamers who perhaps don't have the time to find their 'dream online shooter' will buy automatically - reviews and opinions be damned. Go to the house of a person who doesn't play that many games, and they're likely to have Call of Duty, some triple-A exclusives for that console, possibly an Assassin's Creed or two, and on the shelf. Iits last outing, Modern Warfare (2019), recently crossed 30 million sales, and is on course to be the most popular Call of Duty entry to date.Ĭall of Duty is in fact such a commercial franchise that it's the kind of game that more casual gamers buy without even thinking about. Just a couple of months ago, it hit 420 million historical sales, making it the third best-selling game series of all time. Call of Duty is one of the biggest game franchises in the world. “Call of Duty is so popular that it influences users’ choice of console, and its community of loyal users is entrenched enough that even if a competitor had the budget to develop a similar product, it would not be able to rival it.”
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