Modern Warfare 3 Generates $775 Million In Under A Week

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Honestly, from looking at these numbers you’d think that the Modern Warfare series was a religion. Considering the series’ fan-base, that assessment may not be too far off. In a statement released earlier this week by Activision, Modern Warfare 3 has made nearly $800 million dollars in just 5 days. This breaks the previous record held by its predecessor, Call of Duty: Black Ops, which made $650 million dollars in the same amount of time. On a related note, Modern Warfare 2 made $550 million dollars. So it’s safe to say that the series’ sales will continue to grow with each iteration, and for the Call of Duty line, not even the sky is the limit.


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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-KreayshawnPosted:

hordasx9
LtFlas
TTG-Adrian
Shane2k3
XxsovietninjaxX yeah just because they are brain washing more retards into think that piece of **** is actually playable

That is so true... Do u see all those ads saying if u buy dorritos you'll get double xp and also for mountain due seriously there trying to get attention cause they know they can't compete with battlefield 3

dude when you guys compare Battlefield 3 and Cod its like comparing Apples to Tomatoes. They both have the same color. But the Tomatoe(cod) is soft and friendly and easy to get into and is used by ALOT of people. Then battlefield is like an Apple, it has a different core, its harder, and different system. They are both made differently. Now take my word AND STFU ABOUT COMPARING THE TWO **** GAMES they are just game, big whoop wanna fight about it!

First of all, you can't compare CoD and BF3, two completely different warfare styles, second of all, I play Call of Duty and I'm not "brainwashed" what so ever, I just like this game and I see nothing wrong with it, you can't make entire world like BF3 and dislike CoD just because you think that your opinion is right, Call of Duty player have no problem with other people playing BF, we don't say that it's bad just because it isn't CoD, but Battlefield player do whenever they get a chance to, and yet we are the ones that are called CoD fanboys -_-


If you have never seen anyone say Battlefield is bad, then you are blind. I see a lot of people calling people who play BF, fanboys. Your argument is invalid.
i think battlefield is bad no offense

TTG-AdrianPosted:

hordasx9 dude when you guys compare Battlefield 3 and Cod its like comparing Apples to Tomatoes. They both have the same color. But the Tomatoe(cod) is soft and friendly and easy to get into and is used by ALOT of people. Then battlefield is like an Apple, it has a different core, its harder, and different system. They are both made differently. Now take my word AND STFU ABOUT COMPARING THE TWO **** GAMES they are just game, big whoop wanna fight about it!


well and simply said, well done, hopefully he'll understand now :) ("wanna fight about it!" made me laugh)

hordasx9Posted:

dude when you guys compare Battlefield 3 and Cod its like comparing Apples to Tomatoes. They both have the same color. But the Tomatoe(cod) is soft and friendly and easy to get into and is used by ALOT of people. Then battlefield is like an Apple, it has a different core, its harder, and different system. They are both made differently. Now take my word AND STFU ABOUT COMPARING THE TWO **** GAMES they are just game, big whoop wanna fight about it!

hordasx9Posted:

LtFlas
TTG-Adrian
Shane2k3
XxsovietninjaxX yeah just because they are brain washing more retards into think that piece of **** is actually playable

That is so true... Do u see all those ads saying if u buy dorritos you'll get double xp and also for mountain due seriously there trying to get attention cause they know they can't compete with battlefield 3

dude when you guys compare Battlefield 3 and Cod its like comparing Apples to Tomatoes. They both have the same color. But the Tomatoe(cod) is soft and friendly and easy to get into and is used by ALOT of people. Then battlefield is like an Apple, it has a different core, its harder, and different system. They are both made differently. Now take my word AND STFU ABOUT COMPARING THE TWO **** GAMES they are just game, big whoop wanna fight about it!

First of all, you can't compare CoD and BF3, two completely different warfare styles, second of all, I play Call of Duty and I'm not "brainwashed" what so ever, I just like this game and I see nothing wrong with it, you can't make entire world like BF3 and dislike CoD just because you think that your opinion is right, Call of Duty player have no problem with other people playing BF, we don't say that it's bad just because it isn't CoD, but Battlefield player do whenever they get a chance to, and yet we are the ones that are called CoD fanboys -_-


If you have never seen anyone say Battlefield is bad, then you are blind. I see a lot of people calling people who play BF, fanboys. Your argument is invalid.

LtFlasPosted:

TTG-Adrian
Shane2k3
XxsovietninjaxX yeah just because they are brain washing more retards into think that piece of **** is actually playable

That is so true... Do u see all those ads saying if u buy dorritos you'll get double xp and also for mountain due seriously there trying to get attention cause they know they can't compete with battlefield 3


First of all, you can't compare CoD and BF3, two completely different warfare styles, second of all, I play Call of Duty and I'm not "brainwashed" what so ever, I just like this game and I see nothing wrong with it, you can't make entire world like BF3 and dislike CoD just because you think that your opinion is right, Call of Duty player have no problem with other people playing BF, we don't say that it's bad just because it isn't CoD, but Battlefield player do whenever they get a chance to, and yet we are the ones that are called CoD fanboys -_-


If you have never seen anyone say Battlefield is bad, then you are blind. I see a lot of people calling people who play BF, fanboys. Your argument is invalid.

graphicularPosted:

Shane2k3
XxsovietninjaxX yeah just because they are brain washing more retards into think that piece of **** is actually playable

That is so true... Do u see all those ads saying if u buy dorritos you'll get double xp and also for mountain due seriously there trying to get attention cause they know they can't compete with battlefield 3
Dude, the BF3 community manager said he was happy to even be compared to Call of Duty. Go check how many sales BF3 has to MW3, with BF3 being out longer

TTG-AdrianPosted:

Shane2k3
XxsovietninjaxX yeah just because they are brain washing more retards into think that piece of **** is actually playable

That is so true... Do u see all those ads saying if u buy dorritos you'll get double xp and also for mountain due seriously there trying to get attention cause they know they can't compete with battlefield 3


First of all, you can't compare CoD and BF3, two completely different warfare styles, second of all, I play Call of Duty and I'm not "brainwashed" what so ever, I just like this game and I see nothing wrong with it, you can't make entire world like BF3 and dislike CoD just because you think that your opinion is right, Call of Duty player have no problem with other people playing BF, we don't say that it's bad just because it isn't CoD, but Battlefield player do whenever they get a chance to, and yet we are the ones that are called CoD fanboys -_-

Shane2k3Posted:

XxsovietninjaxX yeah just because they are brain washing more retards into think that piece of **** is actually playable

That is so true... Do u see all those ads saying if u buy dorritos you'll get double xp and also for mountain due seriously there trying to get attention cause they know they can't compete with battlefield 3

XxsovietninjaxXPosted:

yeah just because they are brain washing more retards into think that piece of shit is actually playable

Third_EyePosted:

That's a sh*tload, especially for a week. A lot of people still haven't even got the game, including me!


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