While Activision haven't yet seen fit to confirm anything about a 2015 Call of Duty release, their track record of releasing at least one instalment every single year since 2003 suggests that another outing is as close to a sure thing as you're likely to get. Whisper it quietly though, but since 2011 sales of the series have been on a steady but profound decline - reports at the end of 2014 even indicating they might be down by as much as a third year-on-year. Add to this the further problem of a far more competitive marketplace in 2015, and the depth of the problem becomes apparent. With Battlefield ridden with bugs, Destiny choking on its own hype, and Titanfall offering nothing in the way of backstory or single player mode (even by Call of Duty's standards) Advanced Warfare's sales hugely benefitted from a lack of other decent shooters. Battlefield's developers have vowed to set a new standard in FPS when Hardline is released in March, the long-anticipated return for the Halo series when Guardians is released near Christmas, as well as Star Wars Battlefront that will surely be a huge commercial tie-in with the new film. Add that to a roster that also includes the groundbreaking timetravel shooter Quantum Break, and a dystopian Tom Clany epic in The Division, and it's hard to see a new Call of Duty being anything other than a commercial failure. Which other mega-hyped games will probably disappoint gamers in 2015? share your thoughts below in the comments thread.
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