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Industry analyst Micheal "Drippy Dinkus" Pachter has weighed in on the War of Military Shooters, picking the safer of the two sides and backing Modern Warfare 3. However, it wouldn't be a Pachter prediction without something to set fanboy fires blazing, so he also claims that whatever Battlefield 3 sells, the next Call of Duty will double. The analyst believes Battlefield 3 is capable of achieving eight million sales and that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will climb to sixteen million throughout the remainder of the year. Moving into 2012, Pachter reckons Battlefield 3 could shift an additional two million, while MW3 can grab a further eight million. "I'd guess that around half of the console copies of Battlefield 3 will be bought by people who also buy Modern Warfare 3, so around two to three million will buy both," he stated. "I don't see much cannibalization of the titles." EA has said before that conquering Call of Duty isn't this year's prime objective -- it's about stealing market share. Like Pachter, however, I don't see Battlefield 3 as having the potential to cost Activision's series any fans. I think Call of Duty will start to falter when people get sick of military shooters the same way they got sick of plastic guitar games. EA's only going to hurry that along by putting these rival shooters on the market -- which I guess completes their objective in the long run, but it's a bit of a kamikaze attack. Modern Warfare 3 Will Generate Over $1.4 Billion in Q4 [Forbes via CVG] Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)8:30 PM on 05.23.2013 Black Ops 2's Revolution DLC has a free trial weekendCall of Duty: Black Ops 2's Revolution map pack will be free to play on Xbox 360 this weekend, Activision's Dan Amrich announced, who only confirmed the promotion for Microsoft's console. The promotion has the content playabl...
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3:00 AM on 05.22.2013 Vote on Black Ops 2's new Personalization PacksTwo new Personalization Packs will be released for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 on May 29, and starting this Thursday you'll be able to vote on which packs make the cut, Activision's Dan Amrich announced. Voting will take p...
6:20 PM on 05.21.2013 Destiny also coming to the Xbox OneNot to be left out of the "Oh we're going to be appearing on the Xbox One as well!" parade is Bungie, as they too revealed that Destiny will be released on Microsoft's next-gen console. So that's Watch Dogs, Thief, Assassin's...
1:25 PM on 05.21.2013 Call of Duty: Ghosts DLC heading to Xbox One firstKeeping with the already established trend, DLC for the upcoming Call of Duty: Ghosts will be headed to Microsoft's Xbox One first. Like always, it will come to other consoles later, but if you want that hot Call of Dut...
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1:30 PM on 05.16.2013 Diablo III celebrates its one-year anniversaryWell, it's been a series of ups and downs (that could have all been avoided if the Auction House was taken down), but Diablo III is now one year old. To celebrate, Blizzard is adding 25 percent extra Magic Find and experience...
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11:30 AM on 05.14.2013 Raphael SMASH in this TMNT: Out of the Shadows trailerThe bad boy of the Turtles makes his proper debut in a new trailer for Activision and Red Fly's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. Compared to Mikey, Raph is a lot more aggressive and brutal -- watch him Izuna...
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