Modern Warfare 3 Breaks Every Sales Record Known to Man

[Suhel]

Activision's shooter has grossed more money in five days than any other form of entertainment ever.

Well, I guess I have to eat my M-16. Last week, I made the bold prediction that MW3 was going to sell well, but that it wouldn't do as well as its predecessors. After five days of sales figures were released by Activision today with MW3 grossing $775 million in just five days, it looks like I was as wrong as Russian informant. The figure breaks the previous sales record set by Black Ops last year with $650 million.

Activision boss Bobby Kotick was quick to gloat that his property reigns supreme. "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," he said. "We expect continued sales momentum, as reviews and audience enthusiasm suggest that this is the best Call of Duty game that we have ever made."

Not only has MW3 made more money than Avatar or Titanic did in five days, it's breaking all kinds of records for use on Xbox Live and PSN. According to Activision:

More than 7.0 million multiplayer hours were logged playing Modern Warfare 3 by the end of launch day, November 8, a 19% increase over last year's 5.9 million multiplayer hours logged playing Black Ops last year's launch day.

More than 3.3 million unique gamers played Modern Warfare 3 in one day on November 8 up from 2.6 million unique gamers for Black Ops.

Modern Warfare 3 set a new record for concurrent players on Xbox LIVE with 3.3 million simultaneous users on November 8.

In short, a lot of freaking people are playing MW3 and this hammer with a J pin tastes delicious.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/new...fare-3-Breaks-Every-Sales-Record-Known-to-Man

 

[XxX]

dats the best Game in COD series !!

MW3 FTW !!

 

[foxman]

Great game.

 

[Cheetah]

wow, and still developers keep saying "we want SOPA"

 

[softleaks]

wait.. that's not true... i'm playin' mario bros.

 

[Lifetalk]

MW3 was indeed genius. The story line, the continuation from MW2, and the gameplay; they've all been NOTHING short of perfect. The only sad part is to see the story end in MW3.

 

[Kw3rLn]

$775 million in just five days. LOL at that.

 

[wtfcrane]

Yea Yuri ... Awesome game

 

[Phamous]

^ Pretty sure no one bought the game for the storyline bro

 

[Kedzi]

MW3 is nice, it's a remodeled version of MW2, which was awesome too. It's like... the shit bro!

 

[Sp32]

I've made more in an hour.

 

[Loget]

Activision's marketing department is amazing.

 

[cvrle77]

$775 million in just five days. LOL at that.

Pretty sure this game made it's popularity trough warez...and MW2 MP, which had, like 15 cracks, after that, I've stopped counting....

 

[BattleDuty]

BEST GAME EVER <3

 

[bxflow]

Pretty sure this game made it's popularity trough warez...and MW2 MP, which had, like 15 cracks, after that, I've stopped counting....

Not really, After Call Of Duty 4 the Call Of Duty brand has become huge due to modern warfare style shooters. The Call Of Duty title is what makes the name huge.

BEST GAME EVER <3

Not really, its more like a MW 2.5 but its pretty good. IMO COD4 its still the best COD game ever made :D

 

[Lifetalk]

^ Pretty sure no one bought the game for the storyline bro

You'd be surprised at how many bought it JUST for the storyline, bro.

 

[Kw3rLn]

Great game, but i don't think it's popular from warez or anything. People do buy games and don't have a clue about warez or free downloading of games. Why do you think MW3 selled so much copies, people that download from warez sites don't buy the game even if the release group told them to buy it at the description. Why would you download a game from a warez site when there is the possibilty that the game could be with trojans and other nasty stuff. And the games doesn't cost that much: $48.24. People can afford spending that amount on a game with very good graphics (PC) and one good storyline.

 

[Suhel]

The only thing that got me disappointed was the graphics, mw2 graphics were better they had more color to it.

 

[se7en0n3]

$775 million in just five days. LOL at that.

Wow, is that on PPD or PPS? ....Just kiddin.

 

[TippiE]

still they should have sold it as dlc