It was perhaps to be expected, but however you feel about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, it's already been a huge success for Activision. According to the publisher's recent press release, the reboot has become the year's best selling game already, making over $600 million in its first three days. It's the biggest Call of Duty launch this generation, and the top selling premium game of 2019. Presumably this means it hasn't toppled the launch of certain free-to-play titles, but it's an impressive feat nonetheless.
What's more, Infinity Ward's latest appears to have done especially well on digital storefronts. The press release specifies the game's sales performance on PlayStation Store, where it seems to have cleaned house. "Modern Warfare set new records on the PlayStation Network for the highest digital pre-orders and highest three-day digital sales ever on PlayStation 4."
Call of Duty selling well might be obvious, but it seems this entry has really caught people's attention in a way others haven't this generation. There's clearly a lot of love out there for the franchise's Modern Warfare branch of games.
Have you been enjoying the latest Call of Duty? Stay frosty in the comments below.
[source investor.activision.com]
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COD is dead! Long live COD!
Wait, is that embedded image from the game?
Woah, I thought it was from a cheesy live action commercial.
On topic, I guess bringing back Cpt Price and a single player really helped boost sales.
Yet more evidence that CoD reaches far beyond the hardcore gaming sphere that we all know.
50 Gig download before I can play single player! 😰
I really like the campaign and thought it was worth the $65 for that alone. Cool to see the game selling well despite the made-up controversy stemming from paranoia from some of the more 'woke' mainstream game media.
To be honest, it's the first CoD game I've thought about picking up since the original MW. I've heard good things about the campaign, baby shooting aside.
First COD I've bought in years. Enjoyed the campaign but it was shorter than expected even for a COD campaign. Also why does it take up more hard drive than RDR2
why does this game still sell when it's the same thing over and over? guess i will never understand it. shrugs
You know what, I used to be someone who criticized COD and their yearly installments.
After playing MW3 extensively while going for the trophies, I am here to say I will never talk badly about the series again.
They may not be everyone's cup of tea, but they are absolutely stuffed to the gills with content, whether it's single player, Spec Ops content, or multiplayer.
Playing online coop in survival mode was great fun with so many different maps. Playing online coop mission mode on Veteran difficulty gave me some of the more nail-biting, skin-of-my-teeth moments in recent memory gaming.
So there you have it, a converted whiner about the series is now a fan, and all I had to do was spend adequate time with it to understand it better. Who wouldve thought?
I haven't gone as far as becoming someone who will get every yearly installment, but I am now confident in saying I will play another COD at some point. I've actually been having my eye on the MW Remastered that was given out as a PS+ title not too long ago.
@huyi one reason I started playing a lot of COD is that the online community is guaranteed to last until the next installment, which makes it the only non-cartoony, non-BR multiplayer shooter out there where the servers won’t go dead shortly after launch (otherwise I’d be playing LawBreakers and Killzone Shadowfall, R.I.P.).
This year’s installment ups the ante with cross play, which ended up being the selling point for me since I can now play with friends across Xbox, PC, and PS4. It’s definitely samey, and I used to scoff at the yearly releases, but it’s a reliable series that does just enough new stuff each year to trick me into buying it, lol.
This makes me sad, honestly.
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