User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Portable 3rd on the PS3/@comment-75.37.42.189-20110612201120/@comment-1758220-20110612212710

You can blame that on Call of Duty. In 2007, it amassed a legion of online gamers to its then-revolutionary online system, which, at the time, was freaking awesome. However, due to its popularity, they just kept pumping out more each year, not changing anything at all, and still raking in assloads of money. Now, thanks to CoDs popularity, other shooters are trying to rip off of anything found in CoD, thus rendering all shooters exactly the same. Sooner or later, shooters will go the way of the music games, where Activision floods the market with a single franchise while revolutionizing nothing, effectively boring people away from the genre until it fizzles away.

But it's not all shooters here, there's tons of other things to play, albeit they don't rake in half the money that CoD does, but you still have some great options in terms of other genres.