Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (GfK) launch sales are 10% lower compared with Modern Warfare 3. This is almost entirely due to a drop in sales on Xbox.

[KvallyX]

The game is better than MW 3 last year at least from the beta I played, The sales should do better accounting for digital and even match MW2 sales overall. The useless DAU/MAU metric will be sky high on PS5 this weekend with MH wilds beta and blops 6.

The challenge for xbox is retaining the new people who just bought a month of gamepass to play the campaign and not bleed numbers from the people who usually buy cod every year. On the other hand they can gain a lot if they can convince CoD bros on xbox to subscribe for 240$ a year rather than pay 70$ and with the average american IQ you never know people can actually do dumb shit like that.

They have retained people without the new COD. I think they will continue to keep people (not sure about add?) as they drip feed more old COD games to their service as well as older Activision titles.

There is a place for PS Plus and Game Pass, but a small one IMO. And it has no place with me. I only have them because of the insane stellar deal I had on both with stacking. Both expire in 2025 and I am done with them. I will only do CORE/ESSENTIAL, and that is when I need it.

 

[MrAss]

The drop among digital sales may be even bigger on xbox

 

[FatKaz]

They have retained people without the new COD.

It was confirmed(indirectly as MS will never say it) they lost subscribers when they gave out the total number of subs after combining with core.

News - Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 34 million subscribers (includes GamePass Core, formerly Gold)

So they announced a number above the best estimate from the insider? I'd call worthy of announcing. And probably they did because of that. A meager 2M over the best estimate and now, it seems, that number is manipulated by counting “Game Pass Core” members. Which makes it even more concerning.

www.neogaf.com

 

[KvallyX]

It was confirmed(indirectly as MS will never say it) they lost subscribers when they gave out the total number of subs after combining with core.

News - Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 34 million subscribers (includes GamePass Core, formerly Gold)

So they announced a number above the best estimate from the insider? I'd call worthy of announcing. And probably they did because of that. A meager 2M over the best estimate and now, it seems, that number is manipulated by counting “Game Pass Core” members. Which makes it even more concerning.

www.neogaf.com

No doubt their base fluctuates. Like Phil said, he mentioned it is 10-15%, won't exceed that and has pretty much saturated the most they could on console. That is a large margin of fluctuation.

 

[Gods&Monsters]

COD dropped 25% last year and now another 10% when it should be going up. MW3 was the worst COD ever

 

[ethomaz]

COD dropped 25% last year and now another 10% when it should be going up. MW3 was the worst COD ever

Where people expecting CoD be up being Gamepass day one?

The sales will be high because Xbox parcel is pretty low in the overall sales but the drop was expected.

 

[Impulse]

No doubt their base fluctuates. Like Phil said, he mentioned it is 10-15%, won't exceed that and has pretty much saturated the most they could on console. That is a large margin of fluctuation.

I would recommend that you completely ignore whatever Phil says about the feasibility of Gamepass.

There's a reason the service is being heavily retooled lately.

 

[peter42O]

Can't wait to see the digital sales get a 10% increase since this is what always happens for every game. Physical sales decrease while digital sales increase.

 

[Danja]

I believe it... My entire PSN friends list is playing it... I'm slightly disgusted lol

 

[KvallyX]

I believe it... My entire PSN friends list is playing it... I'm slightly disgusted lol

Same but on my Xbox. An IRL friend of mine plays on PS5 though.

 

[voke]

Cod will never die, unfortunately. 10% down because of gamepass sounds very impressive IMO. Goat franchise from 2007-2012 though, I could never see myself playing again just out of pure burnout.

 

[Cool hand luke]

This is extra terrible news for Xbox. PS owners did not switch to Xbox to play this on GP, and GP is unlikely to have grown at all - people who used to purchase the game now just get it for free.

OUCH

 

[Say1nMan]