Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 set a new day one PlayStation Store sales record, moving more units digitally on Sony’s system than any other release globally. The title also secured a similar milestone on the Xbox One, perhaps demonstrating how consumers are gradually beginning to shift to online storefronts. According to Activision, more players connected to the first-person shooter at launch than last year’s instalment, Call of Duty: WWII – although no franchise records were set in that department.
“Black Ops 4 is an incredible game, and the community’s response to it has been amazing,” said chuffed Activision bigwig Rob Kostich, who spoke while fanning himself with dollar bills. “We have shattered multiple digital day one sales records, and the number of people who connected online on day one to play has grown year on year. But probably the most important thing is that the community is having so much fun across Multiplayer, Zombies, and Blackout.”
[source businesswire.com]
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[insert COD hate comment]
Ok ok Cod is ok and all...but since we're talking digital sales I'm really considering buying Red Dead digital so I can play at midnight
Ive been kinda iching for a new shooter. Last cod i played was advanced warfare, then skipped until bo3 and wasnt feeling that. skipped ww2 and realized i was really tired if the cod formula of running around like a headless chicken and dying every 2 seconds. So i thought maybe this blackout mode is just what i needed and well, im loving it.
I’m guessing with a 59% drop in physical sales & record digital sales, that sales are still down overall. A lot of people play Pub G or Fortnite because it’s either free or fairly cheap. Selling all of the MP’s together just puts a big weight around Blackout to sell the package & im not so sure dropping the campaign will pay off in the end. We’ll see how it fairs in the coming weeks.
Considering its an online only title, why is this a surprise?
Sony will be happy with this, many Fortnite players will subscribe to PS Plus just to play this new CoD.
Also it's important to remember that MS is the only who locks F2P games behind a paywall, you need Live to play these titles.
“who spoke while fanning himself with dollar bills”🤣🤣🤣
And they’re $100 ones...........torn from his toilet rolls 🤣
I wonder what PUBG Corp are thinking looking at these figures? That could have been your slice of the pie, guys!
Bizarrely, this is the most tempted I've been to dive back into Call of Duty for a very long time. I've been watching some gameplay and I do miss the ultra-slick shooting.
@Gremio108 yeah, they absolutely shot themselves in the foot going for timed Xbox exclusivity with PUBG. There's too much competition in the genre these days, particularly on PS4, for a game that's basically Blackout but looks worse, runs worse and has to build a new playerbase from 0 in an environment where by that point at least 2 AAA battle royale games will have been released, Blops 4 and Battlefield V.
@ZeroAbbadon Exactly - when PUBG fever was at a high, I might have picked it up for PS4 out of curiosity. But now if I fancied a battle royale, I'd go Black Ops. It's CoD, so it's guaranteed to be a more polished package.
i wonder how many have poor internet speeds and will still be downloading it next week!
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