Call of Duty: Modern Warfare First-Year Sales Set a Franchise Record - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 November 2020 / 1,481 Views
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has been a huge success for Activision and has set a new record for the popular FPS franchise. The 2019 game set a record for the highest first-year sales in Call of Duty’s history.
"Across platforms, hours played in the Modern Warfare universe were approximately seven times higher year-over-year versus the prior title," said Activision president and CFO Daniel Alegre. "We again saw substantial year-over-year growth in premium game sales as Warzone players chose to upgrade to the full Call of Duty experience.
"Modern Warfare’s first-year sales are the highest in Call of Duty’s history with two-thirds of lifetime units sold digitally and we are seeing sustained strength in the franchise’s revamped in-game system with console and PC in-game net bookings four times the level a year ago."
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launched in October 2019 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC.
The next entry in the franchise Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will launch for the Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Battle.net on November 13, 2020.
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i regretted buying it needed massive updates weekly. cold war is reported to take up 250GB and knowing Activision they will ship a 50GB boot disc will have to download the other 200+GB
Modern warfare universe? So this includes warzone?
Who knew you'd get more hours played when you release a F2P version.
Damn thats really good. I remember sales started to stagnate at the start of the gen. What a way to turn things around.
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