The trailer for Crysis 3 set to be revealed on April 23rd (set for early to Spring 2013)

It's rumored the trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is April 28th (full release in November 2012)

With Call of Duty's sales declining, interest in the series is waning

From: http://www.neoseeker.com/news/18846-call-of-duty-sales-slow-modern-warfare-3-lags-behind-black-ops/


[i][i]Few franchises can generate as much profit and ignite so much controversy as Call of Duty, yet recent industry activity reports have proven that even a behemoth such as COD can still have its vulnerabilities.

anolysts previously predicted that Modern Warfare 3 would mark a lag in COD sales, and those predictions have proven to be true. While exact sales figures have not been made public by publisher Acitvision, reports are coming in from multiple sources that peg Modern Warfare 2 sales below those of Black Ops around the same time last year. anolysts at Macquarie Equities are claiming a gap of about 4.2% when comparing Black Ops sales in 2011 with Modern Warfare 3 numbers. It might come as a surprise, considering how well the latest Call of Duty performed at launch, selling over 6.5 million units in a single day.

In March, NPD placed Modern Warfare 3 eighth on North America's top 10 sellers' list, and sales were reportedly less than half the amount Black Ops sold around this time in 2011.

Not that any of this spells immediate doom for the COD franchise. During the previous fiscal quarter, 34% of Activision's revenue came from Call of Duty, with digital sales and ELITE premium subscriptions bringing in a good percentage of the profits.

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This looks Call of Duty has finally ran its course and Black Ops 2 could be the last Call of Duty we see for a while. Unless SledgeHammer pulls a fast one and releases a whole new Call of Duty IP but I highly doubt that, and with the continuing concerns over market saturation, as Activision has done with the Guitar Hero series running it into the ground with countless spinoffs, "Guitar Hero: World Tour" "Guitar Hero: Aerosmith" "Guitar Hero: Metallica"


How can Crysis 3 steal some of the Call of Duty thunder from console players and increase their sales and player volume?

We could use our voice and flood comments with Crysis 3 just the same way that Battlefield advertised and had fanboys posting comments on YouTube over a Call of Duty promo. Hell I remember watching the trailer for MW3 and there was an ad for Battlefield 3, thats crazy.

I don't think that Crysis gets the same sort of recognition that Call of Duty does. Why though?
Why have consumers been mostly gravitating to realistic modern day war simulaters instead of any other FPS? Think back to when Crysis 2 came out, I had so many friends who ignored Crysis 2 but they bought Homefront on day 1.

Can Crysis get the numbers that Call of Duty does? Or are these sheeple only going to buy more war simulation games?

The way I see it, there is a large amount of people who just love FPS and play online it started with Halo then the masses made a jump with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Will these people be willing to take the jump from Call of Duty into Crysis and give it the millions of players that login and play every day.

dude nowadays its all the lil kids who buy every cod because of peer pressure from their classmates. these kids never go online or anything, so about that decline of sales, it probably isn't gonna make crysis 3 sales skyrocket (although it might cuz crysis is almost a household name; i've heard crysis mentioned by certain lil kids more than i've heard battlefield 3 mentioned)