Call of Duty Pulls In More than Three-Quarters of a Billion Dollars in Five Days, And Other Insane N

Following in the footsteps of the last three Activision military shooters, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 had a record-breaking, money-printing first [[link]] five days, pulling in more than $775 million in worldwide sales, Activision reports. “With $775 million of sales of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 [[link]] in its first five days, Call of Duty has become the first entertainment property in history to set five-day launch records for three consecutive years across all forms of entertainment,” said [[link]] Robert Kotick, CEO, Activision Blizzard. “Life-to-date retail sales for the Call of Duty franchise have exceeded $6 billion worldwide, which makes Call of Duty one of the most valuable entertainment properties in the world. ”(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); Yes, the military shooter has made $6 billion for Activision since its inception. Here are some other startling numbers: Modern Warfare 3’s $775 million in sales is a nice jump up previous Call of Duty launches: Black Ops brought in $650 million last year and Modern Warfare 2 earned $550 million two years ago. More than 7.0 million multiplayer hours were logged playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 by the end of launch day, November 8, a 19% increase over last year’s 5.9 million multiplayer hours logged playing Call of Duty: Black Ops last year’s launch day. More than 3.3 million unique gamers played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day on November 8 up from 2.6 million unique gamers for Call of Duty: Black Ops Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 set a new record for concurrent players on Xbox LIVE with 3.3 million simultaneous users on November 8. You can contact Brian Crecente, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.