Modern Warfare 3 Generates $775 Million In Under A Week
Infamous Activision CEO, Bobby Kotick, had this to say about their latest success:
"Call of Duty has become the first entertainment property in history to set five-day launch records for three consecutive years across all forms of entertainment. Life-to-date retail sales for the Call of Duty franchise have exceeded $6 billion worldwide, which makes Call of Duty one of the most valuable entertainment properties in the world.”
It’s truly unbelievable just how far along this series has come in the last couple of years. It’s really a testament to just how far the competitive online scene has come, with gaming events like Major League Gaming (MLG) being at an all-time high, attendance wise. Yet, can we truly pin all the success just on people’s innate desire to compete? One can probably come up with many reasons for the popularity of these types of games, but when you put your mind to it, it may just be the theme.
War games have always been held in high regard, both for their serious theme and correlation to real life. Even though many people play games as an escape, there are also those who like to do realistic things that, because of certain circumstances, they just can’t do in real life. Whether it’s building a farm (Harvest Moon), getting that perfect job (The Sims) or going into a real war situation (Call of Duty, Medal of Honor), realistic themed titles have, and still do, play a pivotal role in the gaming industry.
Apparently, high sales numbers isn’t the only record that Modern Warfare 3 has broken. Within the first week of launch, players had already put in over 7 million hours into the title. I personally know this to be true just from the sheer number of high level players I saw when I first got online (wish I had that much time to play games). Another record that was broken was for most players logged into a game at one time, which was done on November 8 when 3.3 million users were logged into Modern Warfare 3 at once.
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AJTeamkillerPosted:
shadow1 I cant believe this game made this much money even though there is nothing new to it. I am kind of sad that I wasted my money on this game...well practicly my whole school, even the the ones who skipped school to play on launch day, said this was a bad game. There is no remaking the best game for COD, which is cod 4.
A shallow attempt at trying to seem cool by saying its nothing new? Theres plenty new. But besides the fact, you seen the trailers. You watched gameplays. And you bought it expecting something different? your a idiot.
DeadlyDasherPosted:
shadow1 I cant believe this game made this much money even though there is nothing new to it. I am kind of sad that I wasted my money on this game...well practicly my whole school, even the the ones who skipped school to play on launch day, said this was a bad game. There is no remaking the best game for COD, which is cod 4.
Thats funny because everyone I know in my school who bought the game enjoys it. And I enjoy it too.
shadow1Posted:
I cant believe this game made this much money even though there is nothing new to it. I am kind of sad that I wasted my money on this game...well practicly my whole school, even the the ones who skipped school to play on launch day, said this was a bad game. There is no remaking the best game for COD, which is cod 4.
koolmang66Posted:
bashkierthat automatically shows you don't have skillRozy Here battlefield fanboys, now look which game is the best.
Thats your opinion lol I prefer Battlefield because its more team orientated and since I play with a lot of high skilled bf3 friends its more fun than mw3
NervicPosted:
Rozy Here battlefield fanboys, now look which game is the best.
Thats your opinion lol I prefer Battlefield because its more team orientated and since I play with a lot of high skilled bf3 friends its more fun than mw3
KentuxxPosted:
TylerDurdenRozy Here battlefield fanboys, now look which game is the best.
Games are not based on how well they sell to tell how good they are, or else Skyrim would be making 750mil
This is true but skyrim did to pretty well in it's first week. It beat BF3 lol but about the whole bf3 vs cod thing, cod sells better because of the type of game it is. cod is a fast-paced game and you can choose to play for 10 minutes at a time or play for 10 hours. bf3 is more of a slower-paced game so you can't just pick it up and play for a little bit. cod isn't as team oriented so you can play by yourself and still have fun where bf3 is the opposite
ValorDesignsPosted:
i wish i could say i saw this coming but this actually shocked me. its funny because i remember when cod anf bf3 were expected to sell evenly around 600k at high. obviously that was wrong.
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