In the midst of Activision stock performing extremely well, analyst Cowen and Company has recently downgraded its rating from “Outperform” to “Market Perform”. However, one of the more interesting things is how the analyst predicts Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 to arrive in 2018.

Furthermore, Cowen has confidence in the company’s core businesses and notes that Call of Duty: WW2 should do a lot better than Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, the latter which under-performed despite being one of the best selling games of last year. Cowen also noted that Activision stock could remain strong especially if Blizzard decides to announce a new game. Which is interesting given all the buzz surrounding what’s coming next at BlizzCon 2017.

Either way, Activision Blizzard’s next quarterly earnings report will arrive on November 2nd so we’ll get a better idea of how the company is performing when it comes to revenue. Call of Duty: WW2 is meanwhile set to release on November 3rd for Xbox One, PS4 and PC.

Thanks, Gamespot.

Judgement sold about 425,000 units in the first month, as against the 2 million units that Gears of War 3 sold when it was released in September 2011. God of War: Ascension sales are estimated at 360,000 units as against God of War 3’s sales of 1.1 million when it released in March 2010.

“We had expected sales trends to improve in March due to a strong core line-up. Two historically strong franchises appear to have significantly underperformed,” according to the company. Unsurprisingly, titles like Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite are still going strong, with the former selling 696,000 units in March and the latter selling 665,000 units in 10 days.

The company expects console and handheld sales in the latest NPD report to drop by 21 per cent year-on-year although a 66 per cent rise in PC sales is expected with the releases of SimCity and Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm.

Source: GIBiz