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Call Of Duty Infographic Is Mind-Boggling

Ben-Dutka 5 Comments

These are some ridiculous numbers.

Activision has sent over a new Call of Duty infographic, which proves the franchise's utter domination over the years.

The series boasts over $11 billion in total lifetime revenue; all told, there have been 175 million CoD titles sold to date. This works out to approximately one copy sold every two seconds, which is just beyond silly. The only franchise to claim more overall sales is Grand Theft Auto , coming in at 185 million.

Over 100 billion multiplayer matches have been played, players have thrown over 300 billion grenades, and there has been 579 billion in-game awards earned. That's five times the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy, if you were wondering.

We all knew CoD was a huge franchise but when you see numbers like this, you have to wonder: Has multiplayer gaming proven to be more popular (and more addictive) than single-player gaming could ever be? Obviously, these numbers wouldn't exist without the CoD multiplayer, so…

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Report: Advanced Warfare Can’t Stop Franchise’s Decline

Ben-Dutka 13 Comments

Despite the upswing in quality this year's entry represented, it seems the Call of Duty franchise continues to decline.

After the recent NPD report , Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Olson pointed out that retail sales for the blockbuster series have declined 27 percent year-over-year.

Call of Duty has posted declining sales in each of the past three years, and the positive reaction to Advanced Warfare hasn't halted the slide. As GamesIndustry.biz reports , the latest installment earned less than half the first-month sales of 2011's Modern Warfare 3 . Activision says Advanced Warfare is the highest-selling digital launch in console history, but Olson doesn't think these sales are good enough:

"NPD data does not include digital copies or international sales, which, if included, would lessen the year-over-year decline, but we believe this data suggests potential for Q4 revenue upside is now very low."

Maybe it's not enough that the franchise got better. Maybe it's simply that consumers are just tired of the name, "Call of Duty."

Related Game(s): Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

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Black Ops Becomes Best-Selling Title In UK History

John-Shepard 16 Comments

Love it or hate it, the numbers are historic and that most certainly qualifies as big news.

Call of Duty: Black Ops already has the distinction of being the best-selling video game of all time in the U.S.; now it's time to give the mega-huge blockbuster from Treyarch and Activision that very same crown in a different region.

According to new results from Gfk ChartTrack (as cited by CVG ), Black Ops is now the best-selling game of all time in the UK: the sales total has reached 3,722,411 as of June 25, which tops the previous record-holder, Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 , which registered 3,702,410 copies in the UK. As for the US, Treyarch's 2010 production hit 13.7 million units, which may seem downright insane but hey, such is the way of the biggest thing since sliced bread. Can Modern Warfare 3 set the records again…?

The overall worldwide tally may be approaching 21 million, by the way.

Related Game(s): Call of Duty: Black Ops

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Survey: MoH Popular, But Won’t Come Close To CoD

Ben-Dutka 90 Comments

If you're not among the best of the best in the shooter genre, you'll get squashed beneath the weight of the mega-blockbusters.

This is why, despite all the hype and relative critical acclaim thus far attached to EA/DICE's Medal of Honor , analysts say it won't steal the holiday sales crown. Although it is definitely a member of the FPS "Big Three" – the others being Halo: Reach and Call of Duty: Black Ops – a recent survey conducted by Lazard Capital Markets says MoH doesn't rank as high on the US consumer interest chart. The survey says that 25% of consumers were interested in Black Ops , despite a solid 17% showing for EA's reboot of a long-running franchise. Analyst Colin Sebastian thinks Activision's huge title will once again set entertainment records and in the end, it'll sell a lot more copies than MoH:

"Importantly, given the broader interest and timing with gift purchases, we expect Call of Duty will still sell at least 3x the number of units as Medal of Honor, although game reviews remain a key variable in determining core gamer interest."

We've seen that comment from analysts quite a bit; that reviews tend to have significant impacts on sales. …well, we could've told you that. However, even if Medal of Honor had managed to drag down huge scores (which it doesn't appear to be doing), it probably still wouldn't have been enough to topple the CoD kingpin. By the way, look for our MoH review within the next 24 hours…

Related Game(s): Call of Duty: Black Ops

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