Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Outperforms Black Ops 4's Debut in the UK, Sells Best on PS4

Captain Price is right

by Sammy Barker Mon 28th Oct 2019

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare outperformed its predecessor Black Ops 4’s retail debut in the UK, shifting 39 per cent more boxed copies during launch week. It could not match Call of Duty: WWII’s opening, but according to Games Industry.biz, sales are a lot closer with digital included. Activision, unquestionably, will consider this a success.

Unsurprisingly, the first-person shooter sold best on the PlayStation 4, with a whopping 62 per cent of sales attributable to Sony’s system. This, unsurprisingly, is down to the Japanese giant’s overall stranglehold on the British market, in addition to the controversial inclusion of the timed exclusive Spec Ops survival mission.

[source ukie.org.uk, via gamesindustry.biz, News: UK Sales Charts: WWE 2K20 Debuts in Third Despite Its Countless Glitches Going Viral]

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.

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Gamer83
Mon 28th Oct 2019

Looks like all the whining about it's 'controversial' content didn't effect sales.

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Stevenfins
Mon 28th Oct 2019

https://www.vg247.com/2019/10/28/call-duty-modern-warfare-highway-of-death-russia/
Not sure I'm allowed to post links, so be free to delete my comment if it violates the site rules.

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TheBuzz
Mon 28th Oct 2019

i read the game have big problems on the pc and xbox. while the ps4 version runs good. so it looks like they build this one first on the ps4. now lets hope they dont ruin it with greedy monetizing later on.

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LukeOtisSmith
Mon 28th Oct 2019

I had 3 errors yesterday when I was trying to resume my game so had to restart the mission I was on

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Flaming_Kaiser
Mon 28th Oct 2019

@LemonHaze Did not have a single issue yet and i played the while weekend.

Strange how some games have different performance on the same platform.

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leucocyte
Mon 28th Oct 2019

@LemonHaze - i played the disc version for a good part of the weekend before returning it. i had no technical issues with it at all. apart from having to waste a few hours downloading a 60gb update, and the usual annoying/exasperating aspects of CoD multiplayer aside, it was fine. the campaign was a bit of a disappointment though in my opinion.