Activision has announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has sold more than $1 billion in sell-through worldwide. The game has surpassed 500 million multiplayer hours played since release with nearly 300 million multiplayer matches.
Upon release, the title featured a series of firsts for Call of Duty, including crossplay and cross-progression support, as well as the removal of Season Pass and delivery of new post-release content coming free to all players on all platforms.
As the press release reads, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has outpaced all previous Call of Duty multiplayer experiences of this generation in hours played, hours per player and average daily players. Thus, Modern Warfare is the most played COD multiplayer in the first 50 days since launch in six years.
Byron Beede, executive vice president and general manager for Call of Duty at Activision, said:
“The momentum for Modern Warfare from day one has been incredible. Players are having a great time and are continuing to engage across the multiplayer experience at the highest level in years. We’re also seeing new franchise highs for this console generation in hours played, hours per player and average daily players. It’s great to see the fan response to the hard work from our development teams led by Infinity Ward. Players are having a great time, and there’s much more to come as we continue to deliver new content.”
Patrick Kelly, co-studio head and creative director for developer Infinity Ward, added:
“We’re bringing our players together to play across all platforms. That continues today with a new wave of content coming to everyone for free. Starting today Vacant and Shipment are in full multiplayer rotation. Players can also jump into new Gunfight maps, play a new Special Ops mission and play fun new modes, starting with Cranked.”
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What does the hell does that even mean
Pretty sure it means they have sold $1B worth of game through to the customer. Meaning, it’s not retailers with stock on the shelves, it’s actually through to the end users. I’m guessing sales are up because they dumped map packs, but the trade off is lots of battle pass junk, mostly cosmetic and exp bonus cheats, along with a few particular weapons.
They had to do something though, cause CoD has been on the decline since BlOps 2 really, arguably even before that. If they gain back any good will, I’m sure the map packs will be back in full force, once they feel they have people hooked enough again. This is just faux appeasement, and nothing more, for positive PR.
This game just needs to take a 2 or 3 year hiatus, and genuinely reinvent itself, but with these numbers, that likely isn’t going to happen anytime soon.
At least they dropped Source engine and they are using in-house right ? Its improved at that end.
It means it sold less than 7th Gen games and they’re trying to deflect, CoD has been in decline for some time now.
The more weird qualifiers a game’s “sales success story” has, the more likely it is to be BS. This is one of the weirder qualifiers I’ve seen.
Well done.
Blizzard/Activision greedy f*k
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Nice one
Sadly, another year, another garbage COD sell good.
Well, people like trash these days;;;;
Lol…bullshit
Go play Fortkids then. COD Modern Warfare is a very good game.
I dont play this game ,either.
This just means it has sold 16.7 Million copies at $60 per copy.
sad
goes to show that don’t need to listen to a word dsog comments have to say….
where people anti cod here?
china
it will get 2 billion if the game hit steam.