5 Reasons Call Of Duty Could Soon Die
3. Financial Constraints
There's many a person who can afford to drop dollars on whichever means of entertainment they wish - however, this is more for the average joe.
Depending on region, you'll be dropping $399, 399, or £349 for a PlayStation 4. For the XBOX One, you'll be shelling out $499, 499, or £429. Both of these figures are significant investments to begin with, but factor in the games you have to get with them and suddenly it's even larger. Pre-ordering teh PlayStation 4/Killzone: Shadow Fall bundle alone set me back $100, which will total $517 once I've actually bought it (the cost of the game and a second controller constitute the additional $118 - sheesh!), and that alone is already a large chunk of my finances - growing disinterest and lack of funds (the life of a college student...) mean that it's unlikely I'll invest in a game series that has proven to be perfectly content to dull itself down year after year - and that's just from a jaded Sony gamer like myself.
It's as if the gaming industry spoke to my wallet and said: "Prepare your anus."
If you're an XBOX gamer, this dilemma has a slight increase: On your side of the coin, true, the figure I mentioned above for my PlayStation 4 includes a marginally more powerful system, AND a first-class game, for only slightly more than your next-gen console of choice, but that being said, the Call of Duty series as a whole has always been more friendly to Microsoft gamers. The game, when being developed, is done so on XBOX systems (versions made for other consoles are largely just ports, leading to additional bugs that XBOX 360 players may never face).
In addition to the development difference, DLC is also released sooner for Microsoft fans, meaning that when it comes to Call of Duty, XBOX 360 gamers are always ahead of the curve. This alone, combined with the graphical and connection-based superiority of Killzone mean that Sony gamers are immediately presented with a more user-friendly game choice from the outset: Killzone will never give us the shaft the way Call of Duty does.
This fall, Activision will find out the extent of that loyalty when CoD: Ghosts is released. With a significantly higher financial investment to make, consumers who don't have much to spare may be faced with a hard choice. I, not having ever owned an XBOX or XBOX 360, cannot give an opinion on it, but from my observations (feel free to correct me in the comment box if I'm wrong), Halo is the more stable title, with a deeper storyline, and more dynamic gameplay - I'm of the opinion that Master Chief's history, the huge expanded universe beyond the games, and the Sci-Fi feel of the game make for a better experience, but I could be wrong - I don't even own a Microsoft product. What do I know?