There's literally a huge chunk of console players who basically just play CoD/FIFA/Madden and nothing else. LIt's just a different audience, they're not gamers if you will.
>someone who likes BG3 or Nier
Those are very different types of people, to be honest. Someone in one of my team projects this semester said that he may get BG3 because of how much he has seen it, and he has only talked about Madden and UFC before.
Literally nobody cares what game journos and shit have to say except for people like us and other video game forum goers. Everyone else just looks at a video/plays a demo, determines if they'll like it, and just buys or rents it themselves (or not) on that. It's the one thing normies and casuals have on the "core gamer" in that they really don't give a shit if IGN or some YouTubers don't like the game. It doesn't matter if it's TotK, COD, or whatever. As long as they're having fun it doesn't matter.
In the gaming sphere TOTK might be cult, but normies (actual irl normies) only play shit like CoD, FIFA, GTA
Especially the Black folk, turdies, moronic zoomers etc... Which are far more numerous than Zeldas target audience
CoD will forever sell, same for GTA, simply because of the brand
Normies just buy the name mindlessly, they're not like you who will gather infos about the game, they hear that a new CoD came out they buy it, simple as.
it's the worst-reviewed in the series because of its singleplayer. and its singleplayer is bad because nobody has given a shit about COD singleplayer in a decade so they cut their losses. their profits clearly don't depend on singleplayer so they don't care but they still feel obligated to provide singleplayer. it's similar to where Battlefield was a decade ago, feeling the pressure to have a singleplayer campaign even though neither devs nor longterm players were at all interested in playing a Battlefield "campaign". it just had to be done so they phoned it in each time.
That nature is healing and game is finally becoming a normie inclusive space.
In all seriousness though, feels like their bullshit is infesting more and more of the industry from Pokemon to GTA to the ever growing success of the yearly cod/fifa slop.
It's just brainless CoD cultists who only buy and play CoD endlessly and have no interest in playing anything else, I don't understand how they got a mass following when it's the same repetitive shit everytime
It’s literally the bottom 33% of the intelligence curve stoned playing this and madden.
And what they “play” is horde mode on easy.
I’ve watched this. They’re incredibly regarded but figured out how to place auto turrets.
By the time a new wave hits their ADHD means they already forgot playing the last wave so it’s infinite perpetual excitement for them
COD players are not gamers in the sense that they play other games. They only eat, breathe and sleep COD. Same goes for FIFA and 2K. These people exist in a bubble and literally only play ONE game their entire life.
Every 5 years they will purchase a second game, play it for 5 hours then get filtered.
Most of the game market can be explained by companies marketing their products to aim to be that second game
Ganker has never had any influence on mainstream games except for turbo autists that came out of here except Notch.
Ganker in 2023 especially is full of a bunch of jaded homosexuals who don't even play games
>What happened to Ganker's influence on the perception of games to a wide audience >Ganker >influence
It's 500-600 or so people trying to out-shitpost each other. This place can honestly get shut down tomorrow and not shit will change.
Kids and Dudebros buy 2 games every year: COD and their EA Sports game of choice. Every decade they buy a Grand Theft Auto too.
They also don’t read reviews so didn’t check the warning signs. Their current anger will be gone by the next release.
gamers are morons and gaming companies continually take advantage of it, marching towards ever present idiocracy.
I dropped multiplayer gaming years ago because what's the point? Any game that can be ruined by trolling or cheating will be, and gaming companies don't care. And they won't until people start attacking them at their homes.
Doing business with scumbags and becoming rich from it makes you a criminal.
just like with 2k and madden, some people have fallen so deep into the yearly release meme that they will feel left behind if all of their friends get it but they dont. even if they dont like the game some people will buy this shit, hit prestige and never touch it again just to repeat with the next game
Zelda is a niche game and nobody cares about the opinion of reviewers. Streamers on the other hand, by the very nature of their profession, try to pander to a specific audience, and that's why they are still more relevant despite the obvious fact that they don't actually give a shit about the games or the people playing them.
There's no evidence it did. It made more money only in the US and possibly only when you exclude digital sales of most Nintendo and MS stuff which this list does, including TotK.
There's a whole universe of people who don't actually like video games as a hobby—they like one specific game, usually CoD or Fifa, and nothing else. They buy a PlayStation and one game annually. No matter how good your game is, you won't reach this audience, because they don't want to play good games. They want to play CoD.
true. they just want to be stoned and grind camos with other stoners. thats why they dont care about sbmm or eomm or that its got shit like nicki minage in it
Actiblizzard is ran by feds and Call of Duty only exists to be an army recruitment tool for future zogbots. They're lying about the numbers, same as always.
that 2023 was such a great game that people flock to universally acclaimed trash.
Despite not being good its at least a game, not a movie neither erotic fiction nor an overpriced dlc
That the love for Nintendo on the internet is a vocal minority and quite literally always has been
Tendies will write essays about their mediocre trash being "childhood-defining" but kids don't care about Zelda
Brand power, COD is one of the biggest gaming brands, and flops like this decimate its value, it will punish them on next release.
Despite contrarians COD games had a lot of good entries, so its not consumer stupidity like some morons claim.
But if Marvel could kill their own brand, CoD is even easier to take down, its not the first time COD sales cratered fallowing a bad performance, so i expect Activision may see some financial problems in next q4 quarter.
This is what corps have been building towards, live service is the perfect money making model because no matter how shit the release the game is consumers have no choice but to buy it to stay relevant. It's no longer a game, CoD is a platform in itself.
nothing wrong with normalgays playing and enjoying COD or FIFA. wish they'd stay there, though, and stop leaking into other genres where they don't belong and demanding everything change.
Their "proof" is that it beat Zelda in that chart which doesn't include Nintendo's digital sales (the one that also doesn't track Baldur's Gate 3 at all)
Zelda is still the best selling game of the year and this is kotaku clickbait
>outsold.
Are you sure? Because the last time I checked you have to buy MW2 to even launch the game and that makes me believe they are just counting total MW2 sales.
>wasn't a hit online
Because like sports gamers, normalgay COD players aren't terminally online browsing reddit and twitter. Neither site is actually as big as they make it seem like they are.
>Consumers have shit taste >Consumers consooom, not reviooo
It's the same reason Counter-Strike and many fps games hold most players but scarcely see any threads discussing them.
>Five different platforms, same recycled gameplay since 2001
as opposed to >A Nintendo exclusive
Why do you think CoD outsold Zelda? Come on, spit it out. Don't be moronic now.
I don't care if its an unpopular opinion, I fricking loved the Inifnite warfare campaign and I'm bummed it won't see a sequel. Commanding a starship and going in to dogfights was the coolest shit and Bioware should have copped that for Mass Effect
dmc2 sold better than dmc3 reputation damage is a real thing and the decline of cod will start to show in later games sales, cod being a particurarly extreme example because as such a casualcore game most of the audience don't look at reviews
i don't play fps, but i was under the impression that cod players don't really care about reviews or really anything other than gameplay
hell, they've been essentially playing the same game for 20 years, why would it change cause reviewers panned it?
Games like GTA, CoD and Fifa has a huge casual fanbase. I have a turkish co-worker who doesn't even know what Counter-Strike is but when I visited his home a few years ago he had a (at that time) brand new released PS4 Pro with 4 controllers and nothing but Fifa games in his bookshelf. He showed me ultimate team etc and spoke about it like a professor. These fans are insulated from gamer drama.
Goys are cattle.
Lol and so are you
>NOOOO THEYRE NOT PLAYING MY ZELDA GAMES
Are you seriously defending this garbage?
Is this what your life has come to?
Fast food.
>foodanalogy
>foodanalogy
food anal orgy
kids are unwise spenders
that we've entered into an era where the masses overwhelm the curators
There is nothing else in the space that would be an acceptable alternative. What else are you going to play if that's the type of game you play?
The last one that was actually an acceptable product?
CoD's die in a year. Population drop off + Activision wanting you to buy the new one means lobbies are full of cheaters
dont care, having fun. dont play singleplayer
it's available on multiple platforms, even a decade old PS4/XONE
normalgays
That Zelda isn't defining people's childhoods, CoD is.
black and brown people you moron
NOOOOO you don’t like my sissy childhood games with Mario and zelda?!?!? How dare you not worship the same corporation as me!!!!
>game available on every platform outsells an exclusive
Well golly gee colour me fricking shocked.
CoDs on 5 different platforms, what kind of moronic comparison is this
How's the multiplayer
goys aren't people, they are less than NPCs, they are the static background graphics that only resemble humans
The masses are tasteless plebs
That's hilarious
There's literally a huge chunk of console players who basically just play CoD/FIFA/Madden and nothing else. LIt's just a different audience, they're not gamers if you will.
I like CoD people, more than someone who likes BG3 or Nier. They aren't knowledgeable about games, but they suck less.
>someone who likes BG3 or Nier
Those are very different types of people, to be honest. Someone in one of my team projects this semester said that he may get BG3 because of how much he has seen it, and he has only talked about Madden and UFC before.
switch owners are aren't gamers either
Literally nobody cares what game journos and shit have to say except for people like us and other video game forum goers. Everyone else just looks at a video/plays a demo, determines if they'll like it, and just buys or rents it themselves (or not) on that. It's the one thing normies and casuals have on the "core gamer" in that they really don't give a shit if IGN or some YouTubers don't like the game. It doesn't matter if it's TotK, COD, or whatever. As long as they're having fun it doesn't matter.
>war propaganda is popular
gotta keep a steady supply of bodies, children's adventure games don't do that
In the gaming sphere TOTK might be cult, but normies (actual irl normies) only play shit like CoD, FIFA, GTA
Especially the Black folk, turdies, moronic zoomers etc... Which are far more numerous than Zeldas target audience
CoD will forever sell, same for GTA, simply because of the brand
Normies just buy the name mindlessly, they're not like you who will gather infos about the game, they hear that a new CoD came out they buy it, simple as.
>this product sucks
>*buys it anyway*
Modern day game consumer in a nutshell.
i can explain it
the newest cod probably provides more value than totk due to the addictive online play.
you're welcome
Ah, cool. I get it.
it's the worst-reviewed in the series because of its singleplayer. and its singleplayer is bad because nobody has given a shit about COD singleplayer in a decade so they cut their losses. their profits clearly don't depend on singleplayer so they don't care but they still feel obligated to provide singleplayer. it's similar to where Battlefield was a decade ago, feeling the pressure to have a singleplayer campaign even though neither devs nor longterm players were at all interested in playing a Battlefield "campaign". it just had to be done so they phoned it in each time.
That nature is healing and game is finally becoming a normie inclusive space.
In all seriousness though, feels like their bullshit is infesting more and more of the industry from Pokemon to GTA to the ever growing success of the yearly cod/fifa slop.
>/vee/ pretending like zelda isn't normieslop
It's just brainless CoD cultists who only buy and play CoD endlessly and have no interest in playing anything else, I don't understand how they got a mass following when it's the same repetitive shit everytime
Guns are cool
It’s literally the bottom 33% of the intelligence curve stoned playing this and madden.
And what they “play” is horde mode on easy.
I’ve watched this. They’re incredibly regarded but figured out how to place auto turrets.
By the time a new wave hits their ADHD means they already forgot playing the last wave so it’s infinite perpetual excitement for them
The complete collapse of public education since the 80s
It's been happening with every normalgay series that has yearly releases(madden, fifa/FC, CoD, etc) for awhile now.
They fricking hate it but buy it anyways because it's NEW and ALL THEIR FRIENDS ARE PLAYING.
TOTK was a huge dissapointment and had no legs.
Normalgays don't care about quality, they just want their yearly $70+ murder simulator
>ps4
>ps5
>xbox one
>xbox series
>pc
K
COD players are not gamers in the sense that they play other games. They only eat, breathe and sleep COD. Same goes for FIFA and 2K. These people exist in a bubble and literally only play ONE game their entire life.
Every 5 years they will purchase a second game, play it for 5 hours then get filtered.
Most of the game market can be explained by companies marketing their products to aim to be that second game
Damn near every single game this year that Ganker tried to stop from being successful or flat out hounded endlessly, ended up being successful anyway
>TotK
>BG3
>Starfield
>RE4R
>Spiderman 2
That's not even all of them. What happened to Ganker's influence on the perception of games to a wide audience?
The best way to success is catering to the lowest common denomination.
Ganker has never had any influence on mainstream games except for turbo autists that came out of here except Notch.
Ganker in 2023 especially is full of a bunch of jaded homosexuals who don't even play games
>What happened to Ganker's influence on the perception of games to a wide audience
>Ganker
>influence
It's 500-600 or so people trying to out-shitpost each other. This place can honestly get shut down tomorrow and not shit will change.
Kids and Dudebros buy 2 games every year: COD and their EA Sports game of choice. Every decade they buy a Grand Theft Auto too.
They also don’t read reviews so didn’t check the warning signs. Their current anger will be gone by the next release.
gamers are morons and gaming companies continually take advantage of it, marching towards ever present idiocracy.
I dropped multiplayer gaming years ago because what's the point? Any game that can be ruined by trolling or cheating will be, and gaming companies don't care. And they won't until people start attacking them at their homes.
Doing business with scumbags and becoming rich from it makes you a criminal.
It says more about gaming journalism.
That nobody sane wants to spend time playing as a mute hero in a game that's named after his girlfriend.
Why does MW3 always fail? Do people just get tired of a game by its third instalment?
just like with 2k and madden, some people have fallen so deep into the yearly release meme that they will feel left behind if all of their friends get it but they dont. even if they dont like the game some people will buy this shit, hit prestige and never touch it again just to repeat with the next game
CoD is a popular multiplayer game on the following platforms
>PC, PS4, PS5, XB1, XSX
Zelda is a single player adventure game on the following platforms
>Switch
omg so crazy the west has fallen bros...not like this
There is a MASSIVE difference of opinion between internet dwellers and normalgays
>*based on dollar figures
>**in the US only
>*^* without digital sales for TotK
This shit list is not counting pc sales for cod, not sure why people are even using it
So a major blockbuster game on two major consoles and every major computer platform outsells a blockbuster on only one system? Imagine moi shock
Except it didn't. It's just the US shit they've been coping about for the last 3 days which has nothing to do with actual sales
Zelda is a niche game and nobody cares about the opinion of reviewers. Streamers on the other hand, by the very nature of their profession, try to pander to a specific audience, and that's why they are still more relevant despite the obvious fact that they don't actually give a shit about the games or the people playing them.
>it's shit
>keeps playing it
this has been CoD for over a decade.
It's on 3 different platforms if course it fricking outsold something that's only on 1.
Fricking morons.
There's no evidence it did. It made more money only in the US and possibly only when you exclude digital sales of most Nintendo and MS stuff which this list does, including TotK.
There's a whole universe of people who don't actually like video games as a hobby—they like one specific game, usually CoD or Fifa, and nothing else. They buy a PlayStation and one game annually. No matter how good your game is, you won't reach this audience, because they don't want to play good games. They want to play CoD.
true. they just want to be stoned and grind camos with other stoners. thats why they dont care about sbmm or eomm or that its got shit like nicki minage in it
it says shit is still the same as it's ever been? this your first thread? winter break just start for you? frick off newbie
Zelda sucks.
are you 15? no one gives a frick about 'reviews'
they haent correlated with sales for long while
so wait do normies seriously only play cod and nba2k and nothing else?
I thought they were at least playing ubishit too
Because playing multiplayer in the shittiest CoD ever published is still a 100 times more fun than playing TotK
Doood what do you mean?!? You don’t like walking and solving puzzles!?!?
>puzzles
now that's a stretch
Normies are the largest market and CoD is the quintessential normie game along with Fortnite and Valorant
Actiblizzard is ran by feds and Call of Duty only exists to be an army recruitment tool for future zogbots. They're lying about the numbers, same as always.
that 2023 was such a great game that people flock to universally acclaimed trash.
Despite not being good its at least a game, not a movie neither erotic fiction nor an overpriced dlc
Its just the campaign that got poorly reviewed, I assure you, anyone that buys CoD is NOT playing the campaign.
To be fair, anyone who buys COD has no ability to tell a good campaign from a bad one.
That the love for Nintendo on the internet is a vocal minority and quite literally always has been
Tendies will write essays about their mediocre trash being "childhood-defining" but kids don't care about Zelda
In a non shitposting way?
Brand power, COD is one of the biggest gaming brands, and flops like this decimate its value, it will punish them on next release.
Despite contrarians COD games had a lot of good entries, so its not consumer stupidity like some morons claim.
But if Marvel could kill their own brand, CoD is even easier to take down, its not the first time COD sales cratered fallowing a bad performance, so i expect Activision may see some financial problems in next q4 quarter.
This is what corps have been building towards, live service is the perfect money making model because no matter how shit the release the game is consumers have no choice but to buy it to stay relevant. It's no longer a game, CoD is a platform in itself.
Zelda is the same game made over and over again, I don't get why Zelda fans think it's above CoD.
>CoDgoys know their game is shit and don't spend every waking moment defending it online like Zeldatroons do
That's all it proves
the vast mayority of people that play call of duty is normies. they dont even know videogames have reviews
By my life experience, Hispanic Americans.
Brand power. Normies don't follow the news.
>2 rehashed low effort franchise games that rely on their name recognition
All there is to be learned from this is CoD is more well known than Zelda.
well sisters there goes our 'but the sales!' cope
>see why MW3 is so poorly received
>it's because "MUH SINGLE PLAYER CAMPAIGN"
what fricking year is this? who still buys a console FPS for the campaign? this is beyond moronic.
nothing wrong with normalgays playing and enjoying COD or FIFA. wish they'd stay there, though, and stop leaking into other genres where they don't belong and demanding everything change.
Even the worst Call of Duty is immensely better than the best Zelda.
Their "proof" is that it beat Zelda in that chart which doesn't include Nintendo's digital sales (the one that also doesn't track Baldur's Gate 3 at all)
Zelda is still the best selling game of the year and this is kotaku clickbait
>outsold.
Are you sure? Because the last time I checked you have to buy MW2 to even launch the game and that makes me believe they are just counting total MW2 sales.
Gaming journos actually thought they could stop cod
Lmaooooooooo
this says modern gaming is based
mw3 is fun and totk is a piece of shit overhyped fisher price toy
Honestly, I find it hard to believe
GTA outsold many good games, basically leaving the market for GTA and ubilslop. It's not even about the modern market.
>wasn't a hit online
Because like sports gamers, normalgay COD players aren't terminally online browsing reddit and twitter. Neither site is actually as big as they make it seem like they are.
Normies buy anything with CoD name on it.
This is not something new.
>Consumers have shit taste
>Consumers consooom, not reviooo
It's the same reason Counter-Strike and many fps games hold most players but scarcely see any threads discussing them.
>Five different platforms, same recycled gameplay since 2001
as opposed to
>A Nintendo exclusive
Why do you think CoD outsold Zelda? Come on, spit it out. Don't be moronic now.
That web forum opinion isn't reflected in reality?
Mainstream outnumbers everyone else, and Call of Duty is that comfort "I buy it to play with my friends" game.
Reminder players hated Infinite Warfare campaign. CoD fans don't exactly have good taste.
I don't care if its an unpopular opinion, I fricking loved the Inifnite warfare campaign and I'm bummed it won't see a sequel. Commanding a starship and going in to dogfights was the coolest shit and Bioware should have copped that for Mass Effect
campaigns are a good talking point online, but very very few players actually care about them. they buy call of duty for the multiplayer.
>Modern
This shits been happening for over a decade now you fricking moron
dmc2 sold better than dmc3 reputation damage is a real thing and the decline of cod will start to show in later games sales, cod being a particurarly extreme example because as such a casualcore game most of the audience don't look at reviews
Also TOTK is awful so this thread is about garbage outselling nuclear garbage
Well it probably runs well whereas switch games need to be emulated on PC to run at more than 720p 30fps with dips.
>How do you explain this phenomenon?
ToTK is
1. Horrible, a direct insult to its intended audience
2. Available on one platform
Worst Reviewed Call of Duty ever outsells most forgotten mainline Zelda game.
Elden Ring won, and be happy that it did.
Someone post that image about snoys and poofters coping and seething over BOTW/TOTK lmao
i don't play fps, but i was under the impression that cod players don't really care about reviews or really anything other than gameplay
hell, they've been essentially playing the same game for 20 years, why would it change cause reviewers panned it?
Games like GTA, CoD and Fifa has a huge casual fanbase. I have a turkish co-worker who doesn't even know what Counter-Strike is but when I visited his home a few years ago he had a (at that time) brand new released PS4 Pro with 4 controllers and nothing but Fifa games in his bookshelf. He showed me ultimate team etc and spoke about it like a professor. These fans are insulated from gamer drama.