2. Casual Gaming Is Being Eaten Into By The Mobile Market
Call of Duty has long been considered the most prominent first person shooter for casual gamers. It's easy to see why too; you can have a couple of mates over, crack open a beer and do a couple of rounds of the awesome Gun Game mode. It's not a game you necessarily have to invest a lot of time into, making it perfect for the gamer who just wants to play for half an hour after work. But the casual gaming market is changing, with an increased amount of gaming being spent on smartphones and tablets, and a decreasing amount on using an Xbox or PS4 controller. For the sizeable group of gamers that frankly don't care for top of the range graphics, there is increasingly little reason to invest several hundred notes into a console, and several dozen more into the game, when you can find just as much enjoyment in an app that costs a fraction of that. What can Call of Duty really offer these gamers? And can it survive if its primary demographic abandons it for mobile titles?
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