Call of Duty Advanced Warfare 'is biggest entertainment launch of 2014

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Activision says Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare enjoyed the biggest first week launch of any entertainment product in 2014.

The claim is based on retail and digital sell-through, "reported movie, music, and book gross sales, according to publicly-available data, retail customer sell-through information, and internal Activision estimates".

Activision also said that first week sales were up on last year's Call of Duty: Ghosts, as was player engagement, with Advanced Warfare owners reportedly playing more than 370 million online matches.

Additionally, the publisher claimed that Advanced Warfare has become the "highest-selling digital launch in console history".

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said: "Since Activision created the Call of Duty franchise in 2003, franchise revenues have exceeded $10 billion in sales worldwide, far exceeding box office receipts for such household movie franchises as Hunger Games, Transformers, Iron Man and Avengers, combined.

"Advanced Warfare is the biggest entertainment launch of 2014 in terms of revenue, surpassing all movie, music and book launches this year."

Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg also said: "We poured our hearts into making Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare an epic ride, and we are pleased with the performance. Sales and engagement are up through the first week compared to last year. Season Pass sales are up, as well.

"The game has been very positively reviewed and the response from fans has been tremendous. We believe Advanced Warfare will be the most successful game of the year and we thank our fans for making it the biggest entertainment launch of the year."



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steffess92Posted:

-Swift
steffess92 "Call of Duty Advanced Warfare 'is biggest entertainment launch of 2014"

Should be

"Call of Duty Advanced Warfare 'is the biggest cancerous addition to the FPS community of ALL TIME"

Actually makes horrible Ghosts look like a good game, every release prior to Ghosts have been very enjoyable for me, Ghosts not so much... AW absolutely NOT.

- Coming from a die hard COD fan since COD 4 (MW1)


K.

But really. if you think that Ghosts is better than AW, I feel sorry for your horrible taste in games.



xKat Everyone's complaining about bugs and glicthes, every game has bugs when its first released


At least we live in an age where we can patch games, is this was the PS1 or Gamecube, we would be screwed.


Everyone is entitled to their own opinion(s) I did say 'horrible Ghosts' after all which obviously indicates that I did not like Ghosts whatsoever. AW is even worse for me because 9/10 matches I played basically involved team 1 and team 2 fighting for control of the highest/roof vantage point in the game to camp on. Even the pros who are much better than you and I are struggling to get a 2 K/D because of this issue. Take any COD prior to Ghosts, for the most part it required skill to get those nukes/moabs, in Ghosts and AW it takes little to no skill because most K.E.M's and DNA's are people just sweating in the one spot/area the entire time.

More fool Sledgehammer, they made 0$ out of me as I called up Microsoft and told them my 11 year old brother downloaded AW without my authorization, resulted in a full refund which I was totally chuffed with. :)

Just wait till shortly after Xmas time, you will see the rant section of this forum absolutely FLOODED with bad reviews on COD:AW I can guarantee it, exact same thing happened with Ghosts last year, almost everyone disagreed with me this early when Ghosts was out and now they do..

SwiftPosted:

steffess92 "Call of Duty Advanced Warfare 'is biggest entertainment launch of 2014"

Should be

"Call of Duty Advanced Warfare 'is the biggest cancerous addition to the FPS community of ALL TIME"

Actually makes horrible Ghosts look like a good game, every release prior to Ghosts have been very enjoyable for me, Ghosts not so much... AW absolutely NOT.

- Coming from a die hard COD fan since COD 4 (MW1)


K.

But really. if you think that Ghosts is better than AW, I feel sorry for your horrible taste in games.



xKat Everyone's complaining about bugs and glicthes, every game has bugs when its first released


At least we live in an age where we can patch games, is this was the PS1 or Gamecube, we would be screwed.

steffess92Posted:

"Call of Duty Advanced Warfare 'is biggest entertainment launch of 2014"

Should be

"Call of Duty Advanced Warfare 'is the biggest cancerous addition to the FPS community of ALL TIME"

Actually makes horrible Ghosts look like a good game, every release prior to Ghosts have been very enjoyable for me, Ghosts not so much... AW absolutely NOT.

- Coming from a die hard COD fan since COD 4 (MW1)

MajPosted:

Everyone's complaining about bugs and glicthes, every game has bugs when its first released

TiffxnyPosted:

There are a lot of bugs but every new game has them. Should be fixed soon.

108Posted:

Kimbrel
FaIIout I don't want to discredit SH or AW but didn't multiple analysts say during the build up to AW that very few people pre-ordered it. I will only believe them if I see 100% legit numbers because many companies just say this so they don't look bad. AW is just too buggy to play on old gen.


Too buggy to play? You can't be serious. Aside from the occasional lobby with bad connection, the game runs almost flawlessly on old gen.

Wall breaches, Not being given x2 xp during a x2 xp weekend, Randomly losing power to my exo.....

DomixinPosted:

FaIIout I don't want to discredit SH or AW but didn't multiple analysts say during the build up to AW that very few people pre-ordered it. I will only believe them if I see 100% legit numbers because many companies just say this so they don't look bad. AW is just too buggy to play on old gen.


Too buggy to play? You can't be serious. Aside from the occasional lobby with bad connection, the game runs almost flawlessly on old gen.

RageCreationPosted:

This is because GTA 5 came out in 2013...

108Posted:

I don't want to discredit SH or AW but didn't multiple analysts say during the build up to AW that very few people pre-ordered it. I will only believe them if I see 100% legit numbers because many companies just say this so they don't look bad. AW is just too buggy to play on old gen.

1989Posted:

-Skittle I think AW was a step up from Ghosts


It was a huuge step up from ghosts.


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