{"id":749,"date":"2014-12-15T08:57:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T16:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2014-12-15T08:57:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T16:57:19","slug":"call-of-duty-sales-27-lower-than-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty Sales 27% Lower than Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Call-of-Duty-Advanced-Warfare-Campaign-Trailer-1280x720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-750\" src=\"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Call-of-Duty-Advanced-Warfare-Campaign-Trailer-1280x720.jpg\" alt=\"Call-of-Duty-Advanced-Warfare-Campaign-Trailer-1280x720\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare<\/em> hasn\u2019t been as good in the sales charts as\u00a0<em>Ghosts<\/em> (which is really sort of sad, but I\u2019ll get to that in a second). Leaked NPD information from November of this year revealed that the series\u2019 annual decline has been rather sharp this year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare<\/em> sold 27 percent less than\u00a0<em>Call of Duty: Ghosts<\/em> over the course of the same time period year-on-year. Make no mistake, the game still made money, but just not as much money as it did last year.<\/p>\n<p>The sad news, of course, is that\u00a0<em>Advanced Warfare<\/em> is miles and miles better than\u00a0<em>Ghosts<\/em>. The multiplayer, the graphics, the campaign and the new core of gameplay make\u00a0<em>Advanced Warfare<\/em> a unique\u00a0<em>Call of Duty<\/em> experience, and even that pile of good stuff couldn\u2019t get the franchise completely out of its own way.<\/p>\n<p>Was\u00a0<em>Ghosts<\/em> bad enough that it kept you from picking up\u00a0<em>Advanced Warfare<\/em>? Heck, I grabbed\u00a0<em>Ghosts<\/em> in order to do some research this past spring before a\u00a0<em>Call of Duty<\/em>preview event, and I couldn\u2019t stand the game. I wound up really enjoying\u00a0<em>Advanced Warfare<\/em> this year, and that comes from someone who swore of\u00a0<em>Call of Duty<\/em> years ago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetinsider.com\/Analyst+Comments\/Activision+Blizzard+%28ATVI%29+Target+Cut+at+Piper+Jaffray+as+Call+of+Duty+Sales+Plunge+in+November\/10092566.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STREETINSIDER<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare hasn\u2019t been as good in the sales charts as\u00a0Ghosts (which is really sort of sad, but I\u2019ll get to that in a second). Leaked NPD information from November of this year revealed that the series\u2019 annual decline has been rather sharp this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}