Call of Duty buzz up 400% in wake of Black Ops II reveal, PS3 gains mindshare - Polidicks

[quote][url=http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-05-03-call-of-duty-buzz-up-400-percent-in-wake-of-black-ops-ii-reveal-ps3-gains-mindshare][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12875849/jotain/gamesindustry.png[/img][/url] [B]Activision's marketing push has begun and it appears to be working [/B] Call of Duty: Black Ops II was officially revealed to the world on May 1 during the NBA playoffs, and yesterday Activision further detailed what the game will offer, boasting that it will be the "[url=http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-05-02-call-of-duty-black-ops-ii-to-bring-disruptive-innovation-says-activision]most ambitious Call of Duty ever.[/url]" The goal, of course, is to drive awareness and get players psyched 6-7 months ahead of launch. According to Nielsen Media, the strategy is working. Speaking to GamesIndustry International, the firm revealed that its NM Incite tracking solution saw buzz around the Call of Duty brand more than quadruple in the wake of the Black Ops II reveal. Nielsen, which collects data from major social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, as well as from over 160 million blogs and boards, found that daily buzz around Call of Duty or the new Black Ops game stood at 4,911 messages on April 30, and after the trailer and other details had been digested on May 2, that number jumped to 21,454 messages. [img]http://images.eurogamer.net/2012/articles//a/1/4/8/0/2/7/8/coddailybuzz.png[/img] "Historically, buzz has been at its highest around launch time for Call of Duty, generating up to 69,942 messages on a single day. As far as pre-launch buzz goes, today's buzz total of 21,454 is second highest, only to 5/31/2011's 21,728 messages. The buzz on 5/31/2011 came after Activision announced their Call of Duty: Elite online community," NM Incite analyst Mickey Campione told us. Interestingly, while Xbox 360 was leading in the conversations around Call of Duty, Sony's PS3 really wasn't far behind. Microsoft's Xbox platform has long been considered the "home of FPS games" and it's been a very popular platform for Call of Duty players. Nielsen's data would appear to suggest, however, that Call of Duty's PS3 mindshare is growing. It'll be interesting to see what the sales breakdown among the platforms looks like this holiday season. [img]http://images.eurogamer.net/2012/articles//a/1/4/8/0/2/7/8/ps3_360_codchart.png[/img] [/quote]

Top seller of the year again?

I'm very meh about it. Activision calls every new CoD "the next best thing", it's really tiring.

[QUOTE=J!NX;35808851]I'm very meh about it. Activision calls every new CoD "the next best thing", it's really tiring.[/QUOTE] But but this one's got robots

and horses and a man on fire

cue subjective "call of duty is dumb because i dont like it". this isnt really big news

Jesus....am I the only one who actually has some hope for black ops 2? Black ops was pretty fucking fun in my honest opinion.

[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;35808887]But but this one's got robots[/QUOTE] omg wait that means they stole off terminartor!@!!!!!!!!!!!! [QUOTE=Ermac20;35808895]and horses and a man on fire[/QUOTE] RDR!!!! [QUOTE=Solo Wing;35808936]Jesus....am I the only one who actually has some hope for black ops 2? Black ops was pretty fucking fun in my honest opinion.[/QUOTE] if the gameplay isn't as gimmicky and unbalanced and glitchy as I expect, maybe I'll get it, I don't know it'll be worth at least like, 20$ at most, though, so I'm not likely to get it period.

[QUOTE=Solo Wing;35808936]Jesus....am I the only one who actually has some hope for black ops 2? Black ops was pretty fucking fun in my honest opinion.[/QUOTE] If it's $60+ then I'm not getting it. It probably can't be that good.

I dont high high hopes, But i'll be paying close attention to this. No doubt i might end up buying this and Halo 4 in the same month. [QUOTE=Ermac20;35808895]and horses and a man on fire[/QUOTE] Do you get to kill a guy with a trident?

IMO they should change engine, it's getting kind dated. Or at least get a better gun sound designer. Weapons feel and sound like toys. The visuals look kinda "fake" too. If not a new engine, at least new shaders.

"Best selling FPS game of all time". They didn't even mentioned the quality :v:

Call Of Duty 10 Black Ops 2?

[QUOTE=The golden;35809181]Why do they need to do any of those things when their current setup breaks sales records with each new game? They are SWIMMING in cash. Obviously they have no need to change anything.[/QUOTE] True, can't deny that.

I think it could be good, I liked black Op's and generally like treyarch. MW3 on th other hand was utter shit, I can't stand infinity ward any more.

People talk about a game more after it has been announced Holy shit

[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;35808887]But but this one's got robots[/QUOTE] So did battlefield 2142.

[QUOTE=Sherd Red;35809224]So did battlefield 2142.[/QUOTE] Didn't have singleplayer. Or horses

[QUOTE=-Xemit-;35809305]Oh my god.[/QUOTE] Xbox elitists.

[QUOTE=-Xemit-;35809305]Oh my god.[/QUOTE] that's pretty ignorant considering the keyboard and mouse are best for FPX, but controller is best for platform / third person

[QUOTE=J!NX;35810037]that's pretty ignorant considering the keyboard and mouse are best for FPX, but controller is best for platform / third person[/QUOTE] Lets not start this again. It's purely a preference, unless the game is badly ported

[QUOTE=Solo Wing;35808936]Jesus....am I the only one who actually has some hope for black ops 2? Black ops was pretty fucking fun in my honest opinion.[/QUOTE] I tried some of Black Ops but wasn't able to finish because it was just jumping from one purely chaotic railroad full of infinitely spawning targets to the next, pretty much no sense of pacing, progression or achievement to me. I might've quit to early, but I was starting to get nausea (never happened to me before and I've played some shit) from the chaos and the invisible walls and I had to figure out yet again how to trigger the next scripted event. I think it was in some Vietnam flashback. Did I miss something incredible that changed everything? Maybe I'm expecting too much from "modern military shooters" or something but it was really just fighting along infinite mooks against infinite mooks in a world and wars you have no reason to care about. I heard they're experimenting a bit with blops2 tho such as an RTS perspective for certain missions and levels changing depending on how well you're doing. Dunno how much that'll affect the overall experience, but hey, it's something.

[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;35810057]Lets not start this again. It's purely a preference, unless the game is badly ported[/QUOTE] not really, the mouse and keyboard is simple and quick for simple controls, which makes it perfect for FPS but keyboard and mouse with something like Assassins creed 2? Good luck without a special mouse! It's all preference yes, i'm just speaking out generally, a FPS must have simple, open controls, while others will really just be terrible with KB/M. It's not about the game or person it'self, of how good the port is, I'm speaking on how the layout for the genre should be.

[QUOTE=J!NX;35810102]not really, the mouse and keyboard is simple and quick for simple controls, which makes it perfect for FPS but keyboard and mouse with something like Assassins creed 2? Good luck without a special mouse! It's all preference yes, i'm just speaking out generally, a FPS must have simple, open controls, while others will really just be terrible with KB/M. It's not about the game or person it'self, of how good the port is, I'm speaking on how the layout for the genre should be.[/QUOTE] I finished all ACs with a mouse and keyboard. All it took me is a second to rebind controls. Other than that felt smooth and nice and to me even better than controller(i've tried both). And my mouse is as simple as it gets, 3 buttons on top, two on left side.

[QUOTE=Jocke;35809162]"Best selling FPS game of all time". They didn't even mentioned the quality :v:[/QUOTE] Probably because it isn't relevant to a publication that deals with the business side of video games. [editline]3rd May 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=The golden;35809181]Why do they need to do any of those things when their current setup breaks sales records with each new game? They are SWIMMING in cash. Obviously they have no need to change anything.[/QUOTE] This is what I have been saying in these threads for ages. People seem to be under the misconception that because they don't like something, the game developers should go out of their way to change it. The best one I've seen was something along the lines of "We played all the CoD's up until MW3, which was bad. They should add vehicles and destruction to the next game". Just flippantly saying that they got bored of the series so they should make massive gameplay design changes just to please this one person on Facepunch and their friends. Like, you guys know there have been threads in News Node talking about the success of the game, right? Were you to busy going into ANY thread that has CoD in the title and going into a mindless keyboard smash? The games are getting more popular with every release. Not little by little, we are talking up to 20% higher sales from just the year prior. Their policy of not changing the engine and not massively changing the base gameplay is giving them increasing sales. If you don't like the games that's okay, and if you think they would be more fun with X that's okay, but calling them bad games because they don't make massive changes to a formula that's so obviously horrendously successful is ignorant. The free market dictates how games are made, not esoteric, arbitrary "gamer" concepts that we are so willing to make checklists about. Does it have destruction? Bad game. Does it have a new engine? Bad game. Does it have vehicles? Bad game. Does it have a deep story? Bad game. Not saying any of those are bad by any means. I enjoy Skyrim, Battlefield 3, and Human Revolution as much as the next guy. But sometimes I want to shoot Russians to death while sprinting around the map dual wielding SMG's. And it's obvious a lot of other people want to do this too. Or just rate me dumb and move on without a single useful reply. I'm used to it. Actually responding to someone and having a conversation is a lot more difficult than bouncing ideas off an echo chamber.

[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;35810137]I finished all ACs with a mouse and keyboard. All it took me is a second to rebind controls. Other than that felt smooth and nice and to me even better than controller(i've tried both). And my mouse is as simple as it gets, 3 buttons on top, two on left side.[/QUOTE] I have the g700 mouse so it was extremely easy for me, I can't imagine it being easy with a standard mouse. but that's just me I guess, I have a thing for buttons :v: like I said, I was just speaking generally. I really don't get why people argue which is better, they both have their extreme pros and cons. really what I want to do is get a controller for the PC but I never get around to it :v:

[img]http://images.eurogamer.net/2012/articles//a/1/4/8/0/2/7/8/coddailybuzz.png[/img] This graph is fucking stupid, I mean, you announce a game and obviously it's going to peak, with a game like call of duty the result is amplified. [url]http://www.google.com/trends/?q=call+of+duty[/url] Notice how it massively spikes every year around the 3/4th mark.

[QUOTE=Gdog16;35809186]Call Of Duty 10 Black Ops 2?[/QUOTE] Wouldn't it be CoD 9?

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Horses, you say? Insta-buy. :v: