Call of Duty: Ghosts sales are down 19% compared to Black Ops II, says analyst

Call of Duty: Ghosts sales are down 19% compared to Black Ops II, says analyst

A drop had been expected given the transition to new consoles.



Sales of Call of Duty: Ghosts are down 19 per cent year-over-year compared to Call of Duty: Black Ops II, market analysis firm Cowen & Company has said.

While a drop had been expected by Activision, which has previously said that it believed the transition to new consoles would hurt sales, Cowen & Company's Doug Creutz believes the publisher should be worried.

"Upon further reflection, we think the [Call of Duty] numbers are a bit more troubling than they first appeared," Creutz wrote in a note to investors. "While the year-over-year gap is only 19 percent thus far, that includes two extra weeks of sales for the 360 and PS3 versions [of Black Ops II]. Against 2011′s [Modern Warfare 3], where the difference is only one week, the title is down 32 percent life-to-date."

He added: "We don't think it is out of the question that the title could wind up comparing down 20 percent to 25 percent year-over-year [to Black Ops II], which is appreciably worse than the down 10 to 15 percent that we think is baked in to guidance."