So the games industry is clearly ahead here. The likes of Star Wars and Toy Story have made many millions more through toys, books and other spin-offs. DVD sales are much harder to track down, and indeed don't exist in terms of global figures, but according to Screen Digest , in the UK alone Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring has sold 7. Activision sold more than 20m map packs for Call of Duty: Black Ops, adding considerably to the revenue on that title, and almost every triple-A release this year will feature downloadable content of some form.
There is also a growing video game merchandising business with books, comics, soundtrack CDs and action figures all adding to the revenues garnered by leading brands. Where the figures also fall down, however, is in the area of sheer population reach. Now let's look at those five movies again, with ticket sales ie, bums on seats rather than revenue:. The Dark Knight 74,, 2. The merest mention of its name sends people flying to post anonymous comments blasting the game as the very model of everything that's wrong with video games today.
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Honestly, I've never owned a single Call of Duty game. Not even for a little while. Never even borrowed one. I think the closest I've come is playing a little bit of Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer at a friends house, but after about an hour it got kind of repetitive; which made it all the worse that all he ever wanted to play was MW2 while everyone else played other stuff on laptops or watched a movie or whatever.
It's also a perennial contender for the best Esports game available. Recognized by the Guinness World Records as the best-selling first-person shooter franchise , now with over million copies sold, now is a good time to look at their ten biggest successes that helped them reach that stratosphere. This article and that record don't even include the 60 million downloads from Call of Duty: Warzone , an immensely successful free-to-play game.
Updated August 17th, by Mark Sammut: Call of Duty is and seems set to always be a fixture of the shooter genre, and that certainly translates into great sales for Activision. The franchise has shipped hundreds of millions of units over the years, a figure that is constantly expanding.
Since the last time this article was revisited, a few of the sales numbers have changed, while some indication of Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's commercial performance has been provided.
Please note that there isn't exact and up-to-date data available for every entry in the franchise, so the most recent information possible will be utilized.
Call of Duty: Mobile exists in its own world, so it shouldn't be directly compared to the console games. The free-to-play title had a somewhat slow start, but it eventually blossomed into a huge commercial success. In terms of "units sold," the number was at around million within the first year; however, in this case, this translates to how many people downloaded the app.
Originally titled Call of Duty: Finest Hour , this was the game that launched a juggernaut. As an innocent competitor to the Medal of Honor series, it tapped a base of players that loved the genre but didn't get enough multiplayer action in other World War 2 games. To say that it capitalized on its opportunity would be an understatement. Developers for these styles of games have risen and fallen, but none of them have established the empire kicked off by this initial appetizer of what would become the best-selling main course in FPS history.
The game had an OK start to life and eventually reached roughly 4. Although by no means a flop in the grand scheme of things, Black Ops Cold War was a bit slower off the mark than some of its predecessors , particularly Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Within one month of its debut, Black Ops Cold War had shipped at least 5. Naturally, that number has increased a lot since then as the game has constantly ranked as one of the highest-selling titles of Testing the waters after their first game, Call of Duty 2 had a lot riding on it.
The first game, while profitable, could have just been a one-hit-wonder. Without a centralized protagonist to carry the series, developers were worried that the next game would not carry enough of the fans to continue. Of course, these turned out to be phantom worries as this game was even more successful than the first.
It tapped a market of gamers that loved the action, the stories, and the multiplayer combat which laid a foundation for the franchise over the next two decades. Fans of the series are grateful that Call of Duty 3 continued the growing trend in sales back in It was an awful risk to release a game one year after the previous game and many were worried that releasing a game in back-to-back years would over-saturate the market.
Of course, history shows that Call of Duty fans pretty much expect a new game every single year. In some cases, like , they've even gotten two major installments released in the same calendar period.
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