Analyst: Destiny will likely outsell Call of Duty with 'at least 15M' copies sold

The best-selling shooter for the last several years has had “Call of Duty” in its title. Now, it looks like another Activision release is going to put an end to that reign.

Activision and developer Bungie will sell at least 15 million copies of the upcoming sci-fi shooter Destiny, according to an estimate from Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz. Every year following the big Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow in June, Cowen begins tracking the performance of upcoming games on retail sites like Amazon to get an idea of how excited players are for those games. Destiny has the highest rating in the four-year history of Cowen’s chart. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, meanwhile, is tracking behind the three previous entries in the franchise, and Creutz believes that a lot of that is due to “cannibalization” from Destiny.