The current pre-order chart as of 1st October, 2016 has CoD:IW at ~224k vs BF1 at ~176k. In October 2015, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 released uncontested against Battlefield and had ~1.4M pre-orders. If we go back even further to the USA pre-order chart from October, 2013 (the last time the two franchises were head-to-head) we see that Call of Duty: Ghosts had a total of ~1.7M pre-orders as compared to Battlefield 4's ~1.2M( SOURCE ). (BF4)Īs you can see, CoD games sell through, on average, around 23.5M units against Battlefield 4's 14M units. the performance of the last main-line franchise for Battlefield. The below three tables show the performance of the previous two CoD games vs. Historically, the Battlefield franchise has played second fiddle to the vastly more popular Call of Duty. The source of the negativity judging by the Youtube comments stream appears to be that the typical Call of Duty fan wants a "traditional" shooter with modern military weapons and setting and not a sci-fi/space ship mashup.Īctivision has decided to bundle the original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare as a remaster with Infinite Warfare, but it is unclear whether that strategy will work out- will gamers pay AAA game price for a new game they have no interest in to gain access to a game they already played in 2007?
(Hilariously enough, Justin Bieber's video for the song "Baby" is the current front runner in dislikes with 6.8M) The negativity around the trailer prompted a damage-control response from Activision seeking to spin the negativity as "gamer passion". The initial reception by the community of the new Call of Duty setting was incredibly negative with over 3.2M dislikes on Youtube at the time of publishing this article. In terms of setting, this is the largest gulf between the two games ever with the replacement of the typical "modern military shooter" setting with a stylized and gritty WW1 for Battlefield 1 and a sci-fi space theme for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. The two marquee shooter franchises of Activision Blizzard( ATVI) and Electronic Arts( NASDAQ: EA) will go head to head this holiday season for the first time since 2013.
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