Call of Duty Franchise Tops 500 Million Units Sold - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 30 October 2024 / 3,120 Views
Activision Blizzard has told The Washington Post the Call of Duty series has sold over 500 million units lifetime.
This figure is up from 425 million units sold as of June 2022, 400 million as of April 2021, 300 million as of May 2019, 250 million as of January 2016, and 188 million as of November 2014.
The first game in the franchise, Infinity Ward's Call of Duty, released in 2003, while the latest entry, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, released last week.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 had the biggest three-day launch in Call of Duty history. It was number one in the franchise in terms of total players, hours played, and total matches. The franchise has seen a new release every year, except in 2004.
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That makes it the second best-selling series to-date, ahead of Pokemon (484m) and GTA (430m). It's on track to overtake Tetris (520m) within the next year.
One caveat being nearly every COD is still for sale while most old Pokémon and Tetris aren't... We still have most of the GTAs but not necessarily the good versions lol
Old games aren't BIG sellers but they continue to add to the total over time.
Just bought and played every old COD last year myself.
Just realised the numbers and the "slump" it had in 2016-2019. In that time it only sold 50 million (haha, "only") but from late 2014 to early 2016 it sold 62 million. Although, I know it's popular, I still do wonder who's buying, nearly everyone I know what bought it every year don't anymore, but then new market moves in I guess but in the modern F2P battle royal era, I'd think they'd prefer Fortnite or Warzone than a paid for game.
It's crazy how they can just mass produce these games every year and tens of millions of people buy it year after year. Whatever the cheat code is to selling the same series on an annual basis and having the fans keep buying it and never getting tired of spending money on the series, they figured it out!
Yep, which is sad, pathetic and dumb!
Even though I have zero interest in the Call of Duty series, I have to admit that this is a very impressive achievement.
That’s a lot of Calls of Duty.
So how much did black ops and mw3 do?
"This figure is up from 524 million units sold as of June 2022"
Typo?
Yeah, that was a typo. It was supposed to say 425 million.
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