Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s sales are astounding; $775 million in five days


Activision announced today that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has shattered theatrical box office, book and video game sales records for five-day worldwide sell-through in dollars. The game established an all-new five-day worldwide sell-through record of more than $775 million, exceeding the record of $650 million set a year ago by Activision’s  Call of Duty: Black Ops and $550 million two years ago for  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, according to Charttrack and retail customer sell-through information. 
Major Nelson said:
“With $775 million of sales of  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 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 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.  We expect continued sales momentum, as reviews and audience enthusiasm suggest that this is the best  Call of Duty game that we have ever made.  Online play for  Modern Warfare 3 is at record levels and we continue to see high online play for both  Call of Duty: Black Ops and  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which ranked as the #2 and #4 top-played Xbox LIVE games for the week of November 7.”
Eric Hirshberg, CEO, Activision Publishing added:
“As I have said all year, we have been singluarly focused on making a spectacular game for our fans, and nothing else. Our incredible teams at Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games have done just that. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 continues to thrill core gaming enthusiasts as well as draw new people into the medium, which is not an easy balancing act. But it takes more than a great game. I would also like to thank our incredible team for the pulling off the launch of the year, as well as our retail partners around the world. But most of all, I want to thank our fans. They are our toughest critics, and our biggest supporters, and none of this would be possible without them.”
The game set some new records on both X360 and PS3. As you may have guessed though, it didn’t set any new record on the PC. Guess Activision didn’t deliver with the PC version of Modern Warfare 3.
In other news, CoD: Elite will be coming on the PC. We’ll have more information at a later date since Activision didn’t share any as of yet.