Black Ops 2 may sell less than Modern Warfare 3
Signs point to most recent Call of Duty breaking pattern of 🧔growth
澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 might not be selling as well as its tremendously successful predecessors. Several indications, assembled by , point to weaker returns from the near-future shoot𓄧er for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia estimated this week that sales may be down by 10 to 15 percent so far, prompting him to downgrade his recommendation for Activision's stock from a "buy" to a "neutral" or hold. Take-Two CꦇEO Strausꦬs Zelnick said at a recent conference he understands Black Ops 2's sales ar🌳e down, a symptom he ascribed to c💃onsumer exhaustion with the annualized franchise.
Activision released 5-day worldwide sales figures for the previous three games, though it declined to do so for this year's entry. It also listed worldwide 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:day-one sales of $500 million as o🔜pposed to the previous standard of U.S. and U.K. numbers, making direct comparisons beಌtween the release windows difficult.
It's possible Halo 4 stole some of Black Ops 2's thunder. The Xbox exclusive launched the week before and, up until Black Ops 2, was the 澳洲幸运5开奖ܫ号码历史查询:"biggest U.S. entertainment launch of the year🍸," according to corporate VP of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft Studios Phil Spencer.
Too many figures are unknown or incompatible for anyone outside Activision to say with certainty whether Black Ops 2 reversed Call of Duty's remarkable growth. Fortunately for the publisher, the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:explosive success oꦰf the Skylanders series means Activision will not 𓆉be without a golden goose either wa♏y.
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