Latest Call of Duty beats Modern Warfare 3 first day sales by $100 million
The year's biggest gaming blockbuster Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 has garnered more than $500 million in sales in its first 24 hours.
The exact number of individual game sales has yet to be revealed, but the money generated beats previous record-setter Modern Warfare 3, which had accrued $400m in its first day of release.
It remains to be seen whether Black Ops 2 will also smash past Modern Warfare's five days sales which generated the title $775 million, even breaking through the $1 billion barrier just 16 days after release
“With first day sales of over half a billion dollars worldwide, we believe Call of Duty is the biggest entertainment launch of the year for the fourth year in a row,” said Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick.
“Life-to-date sales for the Call of Duty franchise have exceeded worldwide theatrical box office receipts for “Harry Potter” and “Star Wars,” the two most successful movie franchises of all time. Given the challenged macro-economic environment, we remain cautious about the balance of 2012 and 2013.”
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Still a crappy console port for the pc lack of dedicated servers and the crappy match making system that has never worked since it was implemented make it a deal breaker for the pc. People have already stopped playing it you would have assumed that it hasnt worked on the lastt 3 versions of the game the would have wised up. The COD franchise for the pc is dead do to the developers ingnorance this should put the icing on the cake.
