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If CoD4 was a WW2 game in the same vein, we couldn't be talking about CoD.
I'm not trying to provide a counterpoint. Diff is right, the best time to start IPs is launch (best time for racing games, too). I'm just saying that as well as CoD2 did, it wasn't as instrumental in making CoD what it is today as CoD4 was.
But it did. It laid a foundation down for the CoD series to a whole group of people who bought it and the 360 on launch day (roughly 75% of all the people who bought a 360 that day).
And if WW2 was so old hat at that point why did World At War sell 2.75 million copies in it's first 2 months?
Kawaii Gaming. It's coming back.
It wasn't nearly as popular as the other CoDs after 4 and the CoD name had already exploded. You could have packaged anything in the case at that point and gotten a few million sales.
I'm not saying no one likes WW2. But it's not on the same level in terms of mass appeal.
I want finch to be right.
He isn't.
CoD4 and WaW had very similar sales numbers for the first few months. Modern Warfare 2 was the game changer.
All I've been trying to say is that it wasn't just the fact that the game was in a modern setting. It was even more important that the games consistently looked good and played very well in comparison to other console shooters. They built one of the biggest franchises of this generation off the goodwill of the first "best selling" game on the Xbox 360.
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Originally Posted by Joust Williams
I said it was because it was modern and looked amazing. CoD2 didn't pave the way much more than GTA1 paved the way for 3 (yes, that isn't a perfect analogy and I am not trying to make it like one).
You can even see the lack of growth between 4 and MW2. If WaW was in a modern setting, it would have been in the middle somewhere.
GTA1 was a niche game compared to CoD2, so that's about as awful of an analogy as you could have made. It also was released in another generation of consoles as GTA3 so that kills it even more.
We were discussing popular series during a console's lifespan not just any series that progressed over the years.
This is totally anecdotal but every hardcore CoD player I know now here locally started playing the series with CoD2 on the 360. My younger brother (25) and his friends make up a good number of them.