SO sick of these stupid articles. They are always the same thing over and over. Juts because this years COD installment only made 400 Mil $ And not 800 Mil $ doesn't mean it's dying. LOL! It may not have hit the numbers Activision measures as a huge Success, but everything is relative. BTW, the idiot doing the voice-over is horrible. I couldn't listen to him for more than 3 minutes. Bafoon.

long over due.........................no t over do

A game that serves to the lowest common denominator of a sector in terms of attention span and intellect can never be commercially dead. So expect Activision to churn out another decade of CODs without changing much.

I haven't played cod since 4 but this video is agonizing to watch.

I wouldn't be surprised if MW2 was being remastered for this year as a supplement to the new Sledghammer game. The sad part is that I will buy it along with the season pass even though it is a glorified map pack. I probably am "a part of the problem" but it's my money and I'll spend it where I want. Call of duty has a good formula going for it. I really liked call of duty since it was just call of duty. I'm not a fan of the whole wall running thing and triple-jumping. I think that it doesn't leave any creative strategies to be created for a team. It's like people are just flying all over the map. It's just ridiculous fun. Idgaf about my K/D. I play objectives and I play to win. I'm more about boots on the ground. I'm interested to see what Sledgehammer makes this year. Call of Duty isn't dead but instead it is in critical condition. We all know Activision isn't going to change their shenanigans. Us fans can only hope for better maps.

You are joking, they got another nine remake and remasters comming yet. One a year.

Eh, not really. For example, I haven't bought one since Black Ops, but I'm still a latent-fan, I would certainly buy one if it went back to a military-feel.

Call of Duty is rusty game deserve all the hate because there is 0 development through 2 generations, maybe yes, but being dead it impossible its almost as FIFA and other sport games impossible to dead its causual and almost everyone buy a COD game atleast twice or once per generation.

Didn't this have the highest sales of any game in 2016?

Dying franchises sell the most copies in 2016,have the biggest online communities and get 8s and 9s on the review. Brilliant.

On the decline, yes, but far from dead. The fact is that an annual release schedule is bound to affect sales and sales figures. A lot of gamers who would eagerly wait for a new release every 2 to 3 years and purchase it on Day One will not give the same priority to a game that they know will be discounted within 2 to 3 months and soon make way for a new iteration a few months later. Some will choose to avoid one release and wait for the next.

COD Infinite Warfare was the best-selling title of the year. Far from dead. It just needs refreshing, a break maybe and a return to roots.

A franchise that just had its recent iteration become the best selling game of 2016 with 20 million sales is dead yeah ok. Is there a decline of course bound to happen I mean the series has been a juggernaut since 2007 so it's had an unbelievable run one we will probably never see again in gaming but it's still far from dead so nice sensational headline

It's call of duty for crying out loud! What changes other than location could you possibly expect?

Cod generates more revenue in a week than this site has ever made....
So what do you consider the status of your job?

Wasn't IW the biggest selling game of last year?

Sure...bury it now (!)

Funny thing is COD had it worst year EVER and still became 2016 best selling game? How is it dead? Its not as Popular but it will be no where near dead...

It might not be as popular as it used to be but it still the number selling franchise year after year so I would retrace the fallen part of your article with that being said I'm looking forward for boots on the ground again I'm tired of the high jumps and wall running that the last few games have integrated.

this game must stop releasing , i hate it so much

Cod isn't dead

No, it's a couple iterations from dying. At least the way it's going now, it may change. Time will tell.

These kinds of articles don't surprise me any more... Maybe its on the decline? And even that I would say is arguable. The franchise is only dead for the anti-fan that wants it to be dead in their mind.

You would think people would get tired of saying this every year. I guess the wishful thinking is a click generator. COD will never die, it is a freak phenomenon. Get over it.

Yet it was the best selling series of 2016 by far. Sorry facts get in the way of your clickbait.

& yet it still makes more money than any other shooter & most other games

Good riddenance to this cancer

It's not dead but people are tired of the future warfare and the copy/paste of same features. This is a good thing because I keep saying if you want COD to change hit Activision where it hurts by not buying the game.

Hyperbole much? Infinite Warfare was the highest selling game in the US for 2016

"fact that this series is long over do for some major renovations. So can Activision bring back the spirit of Call Of Duty or is it time to bury this dead franchise for good."

Who teaches you to spoke?

I would love a 1950's cold war thriller or a WW2 era alternate history game ala Resistance Fall of Man.. but without aliens.

It isn't dead i just don't give AF!Lol.

It needs a new engine! The CoD franchise should go nowhere. It's the cream of the crop fps shooters. It needs a fresh coat of paint starting with the engine imo

I remember people were saying this when the IW trailer just dropped

Stale != Dead.

This happens when you milk it every year.

Is it just me who wants this franchise to end already? It's getting so stale each and every game. Can't they at least try and make a new IP?

No.

why would activision say they're going to their roots and getting away from future combat in 2017 yet development takes 3+ years? That would mean they were already planning on going back to their roots regardless of sales from 2016.

Either way this game needs dedicated servers. Inconsistencies match to match are bs.

Lol IW was the best selling game in the fall

not its not dead lol

call of duty gets a lot of bad wraps
but remember the ps2 years wow

No its not lol! The same people who dislike that Call of Duty Infinite Warfare 3 million times, made it number one in sales last year! Where is the love for Battlefield 1 the better game?

That ... is a mighty bold statement.

i dont care about the gameplay mechanics or the time setting but above all else (even the infamous supply drop weapons) they need NEED to do something about their god damn online connections... they are literally the single worst tick rates and lag comp in the fps genre today ... they IMPROVED the tick rate on cod 4 to 20 hz ... 20 hz is fucking laughably bad and that was an UPGRADE! give me a break ... if cod would start running 45 or 60hz dedicated servers only like BF i would gladly come back to the series because i truly enjoy the arcade fast twitchy and fluid mechanics it provides for some mindless fun but without better connections no matter what they do it will just be pointless

Call of Duty is Dead !!!!! yeppy!!!! about fking time.
was going to sell my ps3/ps4 for Nintendo Switch for Fun colorful games Thank you Jesus

"long over do"

Jesus Christ.

IT MUST BE TRUE! A person on the internet said so.

Not dead I haven't brought a cod tittle at launch since mw2 but have picked a few up for cheap Bo, ghosts (they legit stole mocap from mw2 and thought nobody would notice?), aw the rest I passed on.

But they forgot at its core it started as a ww2 game that was quite fun for what it was it replaced medal of honor and around 2007 tried harder and harder to be the cool shooter

Imo the franchise needs ww2 or Vietnam to continue to be interesting to me and a hiatus yearly releases mean that if you are not day 1 you may aswell just wait

call of duty is the top selling franchise its not going to die. this years cod is very good indeed only issue is its seems similar to advanced warfare. a spapce double jump style cod would be ok for a 1 off breakaway game but because they have returned to it mits lost the hype.

if this years cod returns to a standard theatare of war ie a vietnam mission etc it will return to top of the pile i guarantee it. im enjoying infinire warfare online i think its pretty good

god its the best news ever maybe we can get better games now

i'm tied of FPS games, i loved the original COD because of the history lessons in the VFM's its what keep my interest in COD after that for me they went down hill

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau