Call of Duty Sets New Record Earning $3 Billion in 12 Months, Tops 200 Million Players - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 December 2020 / 3,005 Views
Activision Blizzard announced the popular first-person shooter series, Call of Duty, has set a new franchise record having earned over $3 billion in net bookings over the last 12 months. This follows the record-setting launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
The entire Call of Duty franchise has had strong momentum this year with year-to-date net bookings up over 80 percent and units sold through up over 40 percent year-over-year.
Over 200 million people have played Call of Duty this year. This includes more than 85 million players for the free-to-play game, Call of Duty: Warzone.
"The momentum over the last year across the Call of Duty ecosystem from free-to-play Warzone as well as post-launch support of Modern Warfare, and now to Black Ops Cold War has been incredible," said Call of Duty executive vice president and general manager Byron Beede.
"This is the next great chapter in Black Ops with an amazing campaign, an all-new zombies experience and of course, high-octane multiplayer. Launch is only the beginning. We are focused on building a continuous pipeline featuring a tremendous amount of free, post-launch content and events across the franchise."
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is available now worldwide on the Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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And many still defend games going to $70. Poor unfortantly souls.
Yep. They also defend $10 for a stupid skin as well. Peolpe that think AAA games need extra money are idiots. Those games already make bank on a $60 price tag without MTX in them. Upping the price to $70, and/or throwing in MTX is just pure greed.
In the perfect world, it would be great to have neither however people want to follow brand loyalty and will worship anything they say and do. I don't know of any other industry where the customer is happy to pay more. #Gaming Community.
Havnt Activision just laid off some empoyees? I'm pretty sure they made around 30 empoyees redundant and then they go post record profits of 3 billion. BILLION. Scumbags.
I wish this series never existed. It changed the landscape of gaming for the worse.
Cod is a simple formula shoot first multiplayer game! And somehow became a juggernaut in the gaming industry haha.
People prefere multiplayer games or sports games so having a lot sales is a given.
Congrats to activision for getting lucky with all the average casuls gamers haha
This kind of profit cannot be sustainable, something has to give at some point.
