Modern Warfare 2 preorders top 4.5 million worldwide - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 09 November 2009 / 20,704 Views
Final Modern Warfare 2 preorder figures are in and as expected the game is going to be huge. The big question is - will it outperform Grand Theft Auto IV? Most analysts are agreed that Modern Warfare 2 will easily outsell GTA IV in the long term, but how about in the first week?
GTA IV sold around 4 million units on day one back in April 2008 with a similar Tuesday launch to Modern Warfare 2. Over 2.4 million units were sold in the Americas and 600,000 units in the UK. Week one sales came in at 5.92 million units - 3.38 million on Xbox360 and 2.55 million on PS3.
With total preorders across Xbox360, PS3 and PC at well over 4.5 million units and a week one of 6-7 million expected, VGChartz predicts that Modern Warfare 2 will comfortably outperform GTA IV in overall revenue - around $500 million is expected to be generated worldwide in the first week, more than any film, book or music product in history. On Xbox360 and PS3 specifically, sales combined should be very similar to GTA IV but we think that Modern Warfare 2 will see stronger splits for both the Americas vs Europe and also Xbox 360 vs PS3 than with GTA IV.
What remains to be seen at this stage is what kind of hardware boosts the title can produce - with the game expected to perform much more strongly on Xbox 360 and with specific Xbox bundles (along with the continued Walmart gift card deal in the US) it is entirely possible for Xbox 360 to end the week ahead of PS3 - this would be the first time since the PS3 slim release back in early September.
Stay tuned to VGChartz for day one and final data as it becomes available.
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I'm thinking a typical pre-orders to week 1 sales coefficient is 1.5. Though probably less than 1.5 for games with reallly high pre-order numbers. But let's go with 1.5.
4.5 million *1.5 = 6.75 million. Margin for error means (article says well over 4.5 million) 7 million is a distinct possibility. > 6 million is fairly certain (that would be a pre-order to week 1 sales coefficient of only 1.33 which is about as low a coefficient as one could realistically expect for any game). Taking out PC sales I'm going to go with PS360 WW sales for week 1 of 6.5 million.
No chance of 6 mil? lol. My Wal-Mart sold over 400+ copies between 360 and PS3 in less then 24 hours (when I left we were at 320 and I'm sure we'll sell 80 by midnight) and we didn't even take pre-orders. A lot of stores were already sold out around here despite the insane shipments we were getting.
This is way bigger then the GTA IV launch.
Queues all over the place, last nights midnight launch was crazy. I think I saw atleast 500 people queueing in three different game shops down in my local shopping centre.
That MW2 bundle is doing some damage this week. I never walked into a video game store before where I had to wait 1 hour in a que just to get served and the amout of people buying MW2 xbox 360 bundles was crazy. I have to say microsoft have treated MW2 like its one of there own exclusives and heres infinity ward saying they hate the consol war. Well that exclusive bundle is definitly fueling the dam thing and thats for sure. Xbox 360 300k units sold ww this week
it's insane... my whole friend list is playing it... I wonder what the ratio is going to be? 5:3 is my guess
That MW2 360 is on FIRE!
@disolitude
its the same with me,i like those great games that not many people but only hardcore gamers like MGS and GOW
@Retrasado
it has no chance of reaching 6m first week.You are getting over exited
I got it on PC :/ yeah kill me. Not like buying it on a console is anybetter it's just telling them that the console version is the one to focus on. Anyway i got it for PC cause I have nVidia 3D vision. Also when i was at gamestop I heard it actually broke 5 million now.
Count me in I got one copy preordered thru gamestop 2 more coming through gamefly ps3 and 360 version and were having a launch party tues night 5-10 pizza and nachos and kill everything.
PS I love the fricken herd. moooo mooo
6-7 million week one..... man....
just got it midnight launch baby ridiculous amount of ppl at the downtown toronto bestbuy holyy i snuck myself in futureshop and managed to grab a copy the ps3 version although after playing the 360 version in the call of duty tent earlier today before the launch i might exchange it :/ the controls feel so much nicer i swear lol
I hate these hype games. Something about a game expected to sell gazillion copies makes me not want to buy it. I feel like im following the herd.
Its:
PS3- 100k NA
360- 170K NA
so far
In the UK Game, Gamestation etc are selling it on consoles for £45 / $75 (ouch) but supermarkets such as Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda etc are selling it instore for only £26 / $43 so unless the suprmarkets make a loss it shows what a huge mark up the evil Game'station' have on each copy sold.
@gearbox
lower your numbers for ps3/360 in japan and ps3 in NA a bit and I agree.
i dont think that the xbox will sell more then the ps3.
xbox in america - 170k
ps3 in america - 120k
xbox in others - 95k
ps3 in others - 130k
xbox in japan - 7k
ps3 in japan - 38k
xbox total - 272k
ps3 total - 288k
oh ya initially i thought that the game would look practically the same like the previous cod installment and while they do the 360 version does have an added level of bloom lighting. (and no it has nothing to do with contrast or gamma)
http://www.cynamite.de/_misc/galleries/detail.cfm?pk=2633&fk=129562&opv=gal&page=1&order=&aid=0
@squall747
ya thats pretty much the consensus among all 360 owners :P
Wish I didnt own a 360 I'd buy that call of duty bundle.
@SOLIDSNAKE08
Probably more like 200k.
The question is does MS need to make these huge pushes every week for the rest of the year to stay ahead of PS3 worldwide, or will this initial Walmart and MW2 boost provide enough momentum to carry them through ahead of PS3 for the holidays?
I think MW2 will have only a slightly better HW boosting effect on 360 than PS3. Perhaps 10% difference in Americas and 5% elsewhere. The major boost comes from the Walmart promotion.
I still think people should stop using the phrase "biggest entertainment launch ever". It simply isn't true and never can be for any videogame. It might only be described as such if you limit your claim only to the amount of money changing hands. But that isn't the only criteria for "biggest ever" and I bet it isn't even true by that limited financial criteria. The figures are probably not publicly available but I wouldn't be at all surprised if the worldwide advertising revenue and ticket sales revenue generated from the Olympic Games opening ceremony is well over $500 million, and the TV audience is well over 1 billion world wide. A video game simply cannot compete with that sort of launch.
IW deserves a huge amount of credit for the fanbase it has built for its games and it will achieve an incredible milestone if it does break $500 million in the first week. Just don't overstate the achievement if there isn't the data to back it up.
Pc Sales will Fail.
Xbox 360 and Ps3 version will Smash !!
360 - 5+ Milions
Ps3 - 3+ Milions
Mw2 the BeAsT!
the 360 version will do better then the ps3 it always does better most of the time in multiplatform sells in most games
Well, it is a pretty good game...
isnt that bundle limited edition? i dout there are too many of them so it wont really increase sales. maybe it will by about 20k or so
Crazy and Insanity
this game HUGE
I have to ask. ioi do you by chance have any numbers for Modern Warfare Reflex.
Modern Warfare has been released in many parts of the states already New York Florida, rumor has it mom and pop shops broke street date and activision gave the okay.
Been playing it all day today,
By FAR (and I mean FAR) the best game I have EVER played, from the moment you start the game you just don't want to put it down,
Absolutely amazing game, expect VERY high review scores for this, 100/100 already on metacrictic.
I hope PC sales are 1% of the total
Insane...this game will be huge.
I've never preorddered a game in my life, but I did take advantage of the $20 coupon code at Amazon for preordering MW2. Walmart had the same offer. So preorders are higher because you have people preordering that never done so before. There weren't these type of offers for GTA4.
"Week one sales came in at 5.92 million units - 3.38 million on Xbox360 and 2.55 million on PS3." Forgot to mention the PC sales >___>.
Well, GTAIV hasnt been released during the Christmas period...
Awesome! What do you think the split down between the two consoles are then?
wow.
wow thats like awesome. is going to be an insane week!!!.
just insane
I hope the game is good and that he didn't "steal" those sales.
also GG to MS again for making the shared thunder become exclusive nuclear launch weapon lol
That's awesome! Do you know how much of that is 360 and how much is PS3? I hope it does well on PS3 as well.
what's the biggest first week ever for a game?
OMG! This makes me happy, Modern Warfare is so much better than 95% of modern shooters. Good job, Activision, Infinity Ward!
