10 Honest Reasons Call Of Duty Is Dying

7. Consoles Aren't Selling As Well As They Used To

For better or worse, the gaming community is starting to reject consoles. If you're involved at all in the gaming world, then you will have heard of Steam, which actually eclipsed Xbox Live, the largest console network a number of years ago. The term 'PC Master Race', will be annoyingly familiar, and whilst tongue in cheek demonstrates the prevailing opinion. Consoles are for chumps. This is reflected in sales. This generation of consoles is the worst selling set of consoles in decades. After the first three years of release, Gen 8 consoles are still vastly underperforming in sales compared to Gen 7, with the Wii U being comparitively underpowered and the Xbox One having a rocky start. The only console that has done particularly well this generation is the PS4, but even that hasn't been enough to stop the decline compared to previous generations. Call of Duty has always sold better on consoles than it has on PC, so this decline will hit sales badly if it continues. There have been a number of attempts at expanding Call of Duty to the mobile market - Call of Duty: Strike Team and Zombies 1/2 were both reasonable attempts, but the mobile interface is terrible for first-person shooting.