Talk about successful. In an industry driven by sales numbers, Infinity Ward's premier shooter, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, has now sold over 10 million units world-wide. While those numbers are undoubtedly impressive (according to IW only 10 games since 2000 have sold so well) they are for all platforms and IW doesn't know the exact numbers for the individual SKU's, though they did note that the game had been the most successful on 360 and that they hope to sell even more copies of the game this winter ....With such excellent sales what are the odds that we won't see COD5 until spring 2009? Would COD4 be enough of a mainstay shooter to keep you satisfied for the rest of the year if Activision decides to ride out the long tail of the fourth game's sales?
[Thanks Jonah]
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6-04-2008 @ 9:25AM
joey said...
YES.
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6-04-2008 @ 9:29AM
joey said...
YES.
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6-04-2008 @ 9:44AM
Gemini Ace said...
Only problem is that IW isn't making CoD5. But, the public at large isn't going to know that, so they'll eat it up with a spoon.
Damn you, Activision!
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6-04-2008 @ 9:46AM
baby sea tuna said...
You're welcome.
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6-04-2008 @ 9:49AM
SadisticHam said...
Gears of War 2 makes me just not care about call of duty. I can happily skip over 5 and wait for 6.
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6-04-2008 @ 9:53AM
Dom said...
As long as Treyarch sticks to IW's new formula it will be good, not IW awesome but good quality nonetheless. COD3 is actually a good game despite what anybody sais.
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6-05-2008 @ 10:29AM
Carnie said...
"sais" really....sais.....wow
Well I feel the same way as the majority...they want IW to make 5...I don't want to way until 2010 or later for the next killer COD....lets just hope that they stick with the formula.....
Like the old saying goes, "If it isn't broke don't fix it!"
6-04-2008 @ 9:56AM
Pure said...
call of duty 4 and 2 were the best and they were IW but call of duty 1 and 3 are a little bit on the bad side still ok games but treyarch doesnt make as good games as IW
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6-04-2008 @ 10:02AM
PerfectStrategy said...
Call of Duty 1 was developed by IW.
6-04-2008 @ 10:03AM
AfroCelt said...
COD1 was Infinity Ward.
COD3 had it's issues, but I enjoyed it immensely. Here's to hoping they bring back the classes again...maybe with a leveling/tweaking mechanic?
Healing downed teammates was kickass.
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6-04-2008 @ 10:34AM
borocouncilman said...
Call of Duty 4 is within hours of reclaiming the top spot on XBOX Live.
http://1337pwnblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/call-of-duty-4-to-reclaim-top-spot-on.html
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6-04-2008 @ 11:01AM
ZeitgeistXIII said...
Two Words, Bad Company!
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6-04-2008 @ 11:43AM
Jeff Tronti said...
Two Words, who cares!
6-04-2008 @ 12:03PM
ZeitgeistXIII said...
Hey Noob, I answered the question that you didnt seem to get. A bit more relevant than some snide comment from you. Dice has already promised an expansion of MP varieties for free unlike Activisions points needed for expnsion. Also after playing the beta and demo comapred to COD4 its a much more challenging game relying on more teamwork than run and gun of COD4. Which in the longer run of the games will offer more replay-ability than COD4 has so far. Who cares? Lots of people do, my hope is that the added challenges of vehicles and teamwork will also keep people from geting bored so easily they resort to just hanging around the games on the servers to TK and flame the other players.
6-04-2008 @ 2:34PM
PeterF said...
@ZeitgeistXIII
There is no TK in CoD4
6-04-2008 @ 3:29PM
ZeitgeistXIII said...
Actually there is if you play hardcore games. Geez is everybody out here trying to just compare johnsons?
6-04-2008 @ 12:01PM
James said...
yeah those stats look totaly legit too.... Nice job...
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6-04-2008 @ 12:35PM
mattclarkie said...
I have stopped playing CoD4 because I never really got into the online anyway.
I don't know why CoD3 gets so much stick. Yes the game was bug-tastic, but the gameplay was good, it was fun, and the SP took far longer than the 6hours on CoD4, and I'm not going to put myself through Veteran after struggling to do 3.5 lvls of CoD2 vet.
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6-04-2008 @ 12:38PM
Taylor said...
I never got into COD4, there was just so much halo 3 to be played...
-Taylor
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6-04-2008 @ 5:35PM
erivera3 said...
Trudat