Call of Duty Call of Duty History: Call of Duty (COD) is a first-person shooter video game available on multiple personal and proprietary home video game consoles. The COD franchise originated on Microsoft Windows in 2003, the game was created as a World War II Era shooter allowing players to experience the Allied solider(s) fight to defeat the Third Reich German solider(s) in a virtual environment. The style of game play Call of Duty provided gained popularity among the video gaming industry and sparked the release of numerous offshoot game titles that have been released across various video game platforms.
Call of Duty Titles: Call of Duty: (2003) Call of Duty Finest Hour (2004) Call of Duty 2 (2005), 3 (2006) Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare (2007), Warfare 2 (2009), Warfare 3 (2011), Advance Warfare (2014), and Infinite Warfare (2016) Call of Duty Words at War (2008) Call of Duty Black Ops (2010), 2 (2012) Call of Duty Ghost (2013)
Software Developers: The Call of Duty franchise has three primary software developers working in unison to bring the product to market Infinite Ward, TreyArch and Sledgehammer games, along with partnerships with a host of individual software development companies (Raven, Nerve, Gray Matter Interactive and Nokia) to create the popular multiplayer online player shooting game since 2003 to current releases. Activision serves as the title’s publisher as a conduit on the various gaming platform (PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo).
Call of Duty Online: By 2004 the Software Publisher Activision anticipated the release of online multi-player or Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) and released online version on the Xbox capable of supporting up to 32 players. As the market increased for MMO type games Activation met the demand by providing gamer with multiple Call of Duty titles virtually every year. To stay relevant in the competitive online multi-player shooting game genre Activision has developed different COD story lines (known as campaigns), military strategist and virtual weaponry.
Call of Duty Revenue: The Massively Multiplayer Online game Call of Duty popularity has translated into substantial profitability. The 2014 gamesindustury.biz article has projections for the Call of Duty Franchise set to break the $10 billion mark in generated revenue by the end of the decade. Just for the 2016 release of Activision’s Call of Duty latest title “Infinite Warfare” third quarter results show $1.4 billion in sales. Based on past market analysis the Call of Duty series continues to maintain a strong showing in the $42 billion massively multiple Online game industry.
Call of Duty History:
Call of Duty (COD) is a first-person shooter video game available on multiple personal and proprietary home video game consoles. The COD franchise originated on Microsoft Windows in 2003, the game was created as a World War II Era shooter allowing players to experience the Allied solider(s) fight to defeat the Third Reich German solider(s) in a virtual environment. The style of game play Call of Duty provided gained popularity among the video gaming industry and sparked the release of numerous offshoot game titles that have been released across various video game platforms.
Call of Duty Titles:
Call of Duty: (2003)
Call of Duty Finest Hour (2004)
Call of Duty 2 (2005), 3 (2006)
Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare (2007), Warfare 2 (2009), Warfare 3 (2011), Advance Warfare (2014), and Infinite Warfare (2016)
Call of Duty Words at War (2008)
Call of Duty Black Ops (2010), 2 (2012)
Call of Duty Ghost (2013)
Software Developers:
The Call of Duty franchise has three primary software developers working in unison to bring the product to market Infinite Ward, TreyArch and Sledgehammer games, along with partnerships with a host of individual software development companies (Raven, Nerve, Gray Matter Interactive and Nokia) to create the popular multiplayer online player shooting game since 2003 to current releases. Activision serves as the title’s publisher as a conduit on the various gaming platform (PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo).
Call of Duty Online:
By 2004 the Software Publisher Activision anticipated the release of online multi-player or Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) and released online version on the Xbox capable of supporting up to 32 players. As the market increased for MMO type games Activation met the demand by providing gamer with multiple Call of Duty titles virtually every year. To stay relevant in the competitive online multi-player shooting game genre Activision has developed different COD story lines (known as campaigns), military strategist and virtual weaponry.
Call of Duty Revenue:
The Massively Multiplayer Online game Call of Duty popularity has translated into substantial profitability. The 2014 gamesindustury.biz article has projections for the Call of Duty Franchise set to break the $10 billion mark in generated revenue by the end of the decade. Just for the 2016 release of Activision’s Call of Duty latest title “Infinite Warfare” third quarter results show $1.4 billion in sales. Based on past market analysis the Call of Duty series continues to maintain a strong showing in the $42 billion massively multiple Online game industry.
COD Steam chart
References
IGN
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/15/a-visual-history-of-call-of-duty
Activison Call of Duty (photos)
https://www.callofduty.com/
Matt Perez/ 2016 Forbes.com
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2016/11/03/activision-blizzard-report-record-third-quarter-revenues/#1ec7aa7c27ed
Matthew Handrahan/2014 gamesindustry.biz
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-11-20-call-of-duty-series-tops-usd10-billion-in-revenue