I'm sure that the decision was made years ago. It had to have been made at least by BO2's release to give SH the three year cycle, or at least by Ghosts to give them the regular 2 years of development time.
So the decision was made before the abomination that is Ghosts was known about (publicaly at least), or before the lack luster showing that was BO2.
Hopefully 3Arc can get back to the BO1 level of zombies.
This literally just occurred to me, but assuming this is a 5 year gen, there would only be one zombies game on ps4/xb1... Hopefully it's 6.
And Activision is the biggest publisher in the video games industry, and COD is one of the biggest games, Treyarch did not go under. Not even close. Just think about it this way, COD, WOW, Skylanders, and Diablo. Activision is beyond fine.
This is erroneous to assume
Coupled with the fact that as consoles have become more and more advanced, it has also lengthened their lifetime. I mean it could easily be 8-10 years before another "major" release (aside from what im sure will be a "slim" model, a cheaper less memory model, and all sorts of special editions)
And as it stands, games are still being developed for only xbox 360 and ps3 (not many but some) so technically that gen isnt even fully over.
Although in theory it sounds great to give each studio an extra year to design each game, i just don't have any confidence that it will be better in practice as far as the games being noticeably better.
What I see right now, is rather than getting what could have been 5 games w/ zombies by 2016, ill only have 4. And for me personally less isn't more with zombies