Call of Duty Has Become More Popular Than Battlefield for the First Time in Years

 

 

 

Activision’s Call of Duty and EA’s Battlefield franchises have been at war for almost two decades. And while CoD was the popular choice among gamers for years with far better sales, the tides of war began changing in Battlefield’s favor with help from DICE’s Frostbite engine.

Yet, despite all the hate online for Call of Duty over the years (even when its sales were still going up), it wasn’t until 2016’s Infinite Warfare that Activision really felt the backlash from fans for falling behind in terms of graphics and gameplay.

Infinite Warfare was the first CoD to receive an overwhelming negative reaction from fans with 86% downvoting its reveal on YouTube, lower viewer counts than ever on Twitch, and the player base declining by 76% when compared to the previous year’s CoD on Steam.