New COD franchise will be a FPS title at the core

The new Sledgehammer Games studio that Activision set up to extend the Call of Duty franchise is apparently cranking up the recruiting and hiring machine to fill positions for the developer’s first COD spin-off. According to what we hear, the title will be an Action/Adventure title that will be played from the first person point of view and still be a FPS title at the core, say the whispers coming out of the Sledgehammer camp.

VGChartz can exclusively reveal that according to our preliminary data, Modern Warfare 2 sold around 9.4 million copies in week one (5 days on sale) worldwide. This equates to over $600 million in revenue, beating the previous record holder Grand Theft Auto IV which sold 5.9 million units in the same timeframe last year and generated around $450 million in revenue (at a higher average selling price).

Gamers have been screaming for better graphics in recent years, Crysis took next gen graphics to the next level but if you didn’t have a $500+ graphics card in you rig then you were going to struggle to play Crysis even at medium graphics levels.