It has a mere fraction of the daily players its competitors enjoy, and looks to be going nowhere fast. Just two months after release, the state of Titanfall 2 can only be described as a disaster. Despite releasing on two additional platforms compared to its predecessor, third party analysts calculated Titanfall 2 was selling at barely a quarter of the rate of Titanfall 1. Titanfall 2? You wouldn’t be blamed for being unsure if it had even come out at all. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare came out two weeks later with less than stellar reviews, but admirable numbers for the new sub-franchise. Mid way through October, Battlefield 1 released to incredible hype, blowing away sales targets and setting a new standard for the franchise.

With its release date set one week after Battlefield One and one week before Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, the Titanfall franchise was entering the ring to duke it out with the big boys, for better or worse. All signs seemed to point towards a game that would sell well and keep players entertained for many months, maybe even years. Early reviews indicated Titanfall 2 would be a massive hit with Game of the Year potential, receiving incredible ratings from almost every news outlet that played it. Two and a half years of hard work later, Titanfall 2 was ready, and it this time it was going toe-to-toe against the new Call of Duty title released that year. Undeterred by Titanfall 1’s quick rise and fall, Respawn immediately set about fixing each and every criticism levied against its debut title, from the lack of a single-player campaign to the paltry set of content in multiplayer. Made by many of the same talented developers that created the breakout Call of Duty 4 hit for Activision many years before, the first Titanfall release in early 2014 was well received, but some major flaws led to players quickly moving on to other games. EA knew they were taking a big risk not competing directly against Activision with their Battlefield title, but felt safe doing so because they had a secret weapon in the works to fight the new Call of Duty game on their own turf: Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall 2. This year, Activision’s new Call of Duty was taking the fight to the future with more emphasis on sci-fi, whereas EA’s Battlefield was bringing players back further than they ever had by focusing on World War One battles. Generally, the games have a pretty wide overlap in terms of audience, but in 2016, the two diverged by the largest amount since 2009 when Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was released. These two franchises are headliners of their respective companies, each releasing a new iteration every year to keep their massive userbases engaged. Obviously, gamers disagreed.Įarly analysis is always worth considering, but we'll be more interested in seeing how the sales numbers for all three of these shooters shake out once the dust settles and genre fans have voted with their dollars.Every fall, EA and Activision face off in what has become one of the biggest video game franchise rivalries of all time: Battlefield vs Call of Duty. Before that game launched, analysts were saying that the market had no interest in a Western and that ' GTA on horses' was a misstep on the part of Rockstar. Whenever I see reports like these, I'm reminded of one game in particular, Red Dead Redemption. While C&C may feel that EA crippled Titanfall 2 with its launch timing, things might go exactly as the publisher has planned. Then again, these are projections we're talking about, so there's no real way to know until everything shakes out through the holiday season. These statements are based on projected sales for Titanfall 2, which the analyst feels will be quite a bit less than what the publisher was hoping for. We suspect EA believed that by launching two shooters next to Call of Duty it could put a large dent in its biggest competitor, but instead EA appears to have wound up shooting its own foot off.

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