AAA Sequels Are Falling

Watch Dogs 2 launch sales nowhere near Watch Dogs 1 • Eurogamer.net

The past few weeks have seen a number of high-profile sequels fail to hit the high sales watermark of their predecessors. Watch Dogs 2 joins a list of Titanfall 2, Dishonored 2 and even the aforementioned Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.

It’s a worrying trend – and one that’s hard to explain away by any one factor. Console generation fatigue, the rise of digital and falling sales of physical copies, the frequency of AAA game releases during the end-of-year period and high prices for AAA games during uncertain economic times likely all contribute.

Maybe they shoudl stop pushing all those sequels on us.