Evonisia said:
Call of Duty has been in decline since late 2011, it's heydey was when Halo receded just after Reach.
In 2011 it lost to Skyrim, the only game that could possibly have been more overhyped than CoD.
2012, I think people were finally starting to tire of its unchanging constant self-derivation (which is why I'm calling it e^CoD now; bad calculus joke).
So normally, I'd like to agree with you and say that it is running out of steam...
BUT.
CoD:G is THE killer app for is a new console generation with nothing else really competing with it for hype at this point going forward. GTA V blew its load earlier, and made a boatload of money; more, probably because it didn't have to split the limelight with CoD:G.
We'll see this Christmas, but I won't be surprised if it shatters media sales records again with its unchanging, overproduced, badly balanced one-taste-fits-all paste.