Call of Duty: Black Ops - PS3 Approaches 1 Million Online at One Time

The PS3 version of Black Ops topped out today at 860,000 people online at one time! And we just may see this number grow higher by the weekend! The prime time seems to be around 1-2PM Pacific Time (google a time zone converter) if you want to follow how high this number can get!

[xskipperx82]

360 version hit 3 million first day

[scar20]

Who cares if it 3 million.

[N4WAH]

Who cares how many active players are online? There are more than enough gamers on all formats to have filled rooms. That's all that matters.

[Red_Orange_Juice]

Well CoD is heavly online game, when someone owns two systems and pays for Live, gets the game on 360 not to waste his Gold

[evrfighter]

looks like ps3 is also an fps console.

[Rush]

Lol at the PS3 fanboys above, "who cares, doesn't matter" if you didn't care why are you posting in an article about how many PS3 users where online at once?

[N4WAH]

but one you own is hypocrite. I said who cares and "I" play it on the 360. "Fanboys" get too caught up in sales, reviews and basically numbers in general. Guess which fanboys are guilty of this most? Oh yeah, you know who I am talking about.

Your assumptions just show how immature, insecure and ignorant, most of all hypocritcal, members on this site have become. Believe it or not people can give an "honest" opinion without being a flag waving brain washed zealot with a hidden agenda.

[kunit22c]

This could have something to do with the fact 360 owners have nothing else to buy...

[joeymp]

Ya but COD is the only good game 360 has, unlike PS3.

[Mystogan]

Halo Reach, Fable 3, Alan Wake, splinter Cell, Mass Effect 1(2),CrackDown 2.

Plenty of Games if you ask me, and besides we got Superior Multi-platform games.

[TOO PAWNED]

crackdown 2 lol

[Imperator]

@Mystogen

I'll agree with Reach, but:

Alan wake - Decent game but huge disappointment. Repetitive gameplay, and the graphics were not that good.

SCC- Uh.. just uh.. and it's on PC as well.

ME1/2 - ME1 is on PC, and 2 is coming to PS3 early next year

Crackdown 2 - Come on man. A sequel that looks worse than the first one? Fail right there.

Fable III- Decent game, but again a disappointment. Nowhere near what Molyneux hyped up.

[joeymp]

@Imperator Exactly my thoughts. Thank you.

[Mystogan]

''Fable III- Decent game, but again a disappointment. Nowhere near what Molyneux hyped up''

Fable 3 a dissapointment? have you even played it? and Molyneux didn't hype anything. 81 metacritic

Crackdown 2 a Dissapointment? again have you even played it? Crackdown 2 is supposed to be fun Graphics are not a priority. Metacritic 70 and Mixed Reviews Depends on what you prefer ''Over the top'' graphics with average gameplay or ''meh not bad'' Graphics with awesome gameplay.

Alan Wake HUGE dissapointment? 83 Metacritic Confirmed you do not own a 360 nor played Alan Wake or any of the games i mentioned

[MGRogue2017]

Look at all of these silly children fighting about which console has the best games.. while there are people out there like myself who own both consoles & enjoy everything that they have to offer. :D

Looking forward to GT5, NFS Hot Pursuit, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Killzone 3

[pimpmaster]

LOLO!LO!L!O!LOLol "Ya but COD is the only good game 360 has, unlike PS3." LOL!!!

im no ps3 hater but come on now, thats just retarded. what does ps3 have thats better online than cod?hmmm lets see, mag? uncharted 2? facepalm, i mean seriously, those games just blow when compared to cod online. top that off by going back to your original statement about cod being the only good game, theres a little game called halo and halo>cod

[Zachmo182]

Haha. But whats the topped played game on PS3? YEA shut thought so.

At least xbox exclusive top the most played game.

[RememberThe357]

Actually I think MAG is a better online game.

[SpinalRemains138]

Exactly! 360 will always do better with FPS. That's their demographic for cryin out loud. Of all the 360 owners in the world (Eh hem I mean USA and England), I will guarantee that 97 percent of them got the system for Halo.

PS3 owners are simply upgrading from a long line of great AAA titles and 2 previous systems. Hell, the 360 controller says it all. It has triggers.

[Silly gameAr]

Who Cares?

[HappyTrigger]

Just let it go. Just remember, that is HIS opinion. What he may see as a disappointment might be a great game for others. Seriously, the 360 has had a LOT of games this year, whether you think they are a disappointment or not. And how could that many people agree with joeymp? Seriously? You must be a blind fanboy.. I'll tell you that much...

Ugh.... -___-

[MajestieBeast]

Ye and more people play counterstrike,TF2 then halo reach your point was?

[Gam3s4lif3]

OOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMG !!!!!!!!! 1 mil......WOW amazing.....

Who the FUCK cares

[Scotland-The-Brave]

yo momma

[randomwiz]

The popularity of shooters in different regions is as follows: NA>Western Europe>Eastern Europe>Rest of the World

Considering the fact that a majority of the 360's install base is concentrated in NA, only 4 time zones apart, and the majority loves shooters, its no surprise the 360 can reach numbers like that.

[RememberThe357]

But that is a really good point.

[im-12-years-old]

"360 version hit 3 million first day"

Thats like insulting yourself

[Theoneneo81]

and I'm sure it was a lagfest.

[maxcer]

360/ps3 have the same p2p networking buddy, all it mean is there are more players around you to play the game. that mean less latency.

unless your a cheap gamer and cant afford xbl or a decent ISP speed. lol

[vhero]

Sorry but from that pic you can't seriously say it's taken from the PS3 version.. The buttons are hidden so we don't knwo what version. It could be taken from the wii version. But honestly most PS3 users are too busy saving there pennys for GT5 right now.

[T9X69]

Are you blind? You seriously can't see the big Circle Button and Select Button on the screen?

[mittwaffen]

Nubs.

[Denethor_II]

"meh
360 version hit 3 million first day"

Probably because there's nothing else to play on the 360.

[ghostface]

I haven't even open my copy yet, because my ps3 Ylod. I'll be picking up the 320 gig slim next week.

[vhero]

suuuuuure how many times we read this??? I mean you hoenstly had to tell people because your not a fanboy right?? I doubt you even had a PS3.

[KotC]

Have you ever considered that out of all the times you read about gamers getting YLOD that some may be true? Or do you just accuse everyone out of default?

[Halo_Reach]

...

[Mystogan]

Yeah i thought..meehh while for other games it would be a huge succes like Killzone or Uncharted.

@TOO PAWNED

How am i supposed to know? but probably a lot more then PS3 does.
Black ops sold a lot more on 360 as expected.

[TOO PAWNED]

how many are on 360 atm? Forget day 1, i am asking about now.

[BillGatesSaysHi]

atm there are 1,153,966 players online at 10;27

[ironmonkey]

sure it is but small numbers for reach already what are you trying to say?

[SpinalRemains138]

Know what looks worse?

The 360s future. I mean Kinect. I mean last place.

[Death Row]

this game is big on ps3, almost everyone on my list is playing it

[Gam3s4lif3]

funny...

ppl say tht is big...When PS3 fanboys go 'we don't need multiplat games, when we hav killzone, resistance etc' yet CoD is basically the most played game on ps3.
just saying.

[Black-Helghast]

Come on dude, don't be such a hater... -.- I'm a ps3 owner and yes we have awesome exclusives but there are multiplatform games i love like...F.E.A.R. and Red Dead Redemption.

[ZombieAssassin]

Does it really matter, you can only play a game with like 2-18 players so as long as you have that many people playing you are good.

[Hellsvacancy]

1 million stupid PS3 owners "RENT THE DAMN GAME"

[Chuk5]

This is why you have one bubble. People like COD, that doesn't make them stupid because you said so. It's a great game, I'm enjoying it very much, so far.

[scar20]

The only reason i bought it was cuz a guy had beaten story mode and return it rite when i was gonna ask for a copy of it and i got it used at $45 now thats a deal.

[PS360PCROCKS]

you realize your reasoning makes no sense whatsoever right? The only reason you bought it was because a guy returned it right before you were going to ask for a copy of it?

[RememberThe357]

It's back in the mail now.

[Gam3s4lif3]

GG!

[Genecalypse]

I dont see that as a bad thing.

[duplissi]

am sad :(

[Cmoney]

and sony still can't matcht xbox live numbers.

3 million DAY 1 on xbox live....

i dont understand...thote free was better

[im-12-years-old]

People are stupid. If you went around telling everyone you have premium air that ONLY cost $50.00 a year they would pay.

People think

Spend more money = must be better.

sometimes its true but alot of the times its not

[JayD-1K]

people are playing other games at the moment? I didn't pick it up soooooo..i'm a hater? or maybe, i'm playing MAG and MOH right now! I might pick it later but, I usually wait for most of the bugs to be fixed before I pick a COD game for my PS3....and my 360 for that matter!

[-MoOkS-]

This really isnt something you ps3 fans should be bragging about. 360 had almost 4 million online a few days ago. And we have even better online games than ps3. So go figure

[Lionhead]

Wait where is the bragging?

Oh right you are trolling, sorry go on.

[SIX]

Nobody is bragging. In fact, most of the people in this thread are saying they don't care. So why is it that you care so much? Lets face it. Most of you guys buy an entire system to play 3 games over and over again. Now thats not something to brag about.

[Silly gameAr]

You're the one here bragging about useless numbers. Nothing new.

[Ben Dover]

"And we have even better online games than ps3"

Yea Gears 2 was a blast. /s

[ironmonkey]

lol what the hell? no it doesnt. you got halo and cod thats it. when i say thats it mean worth playing! sure i played ur online games for 360 did i like em? no so that means they are not better.

[PS360PCROCKS]

Shows which system the smart gamers own...lol j/k j/k sorry my hate for COD can be extreme sometimes. Who cares 800k? GT5 will very popular too, I really wonder how the online will be.

[StarScream4Ever]

Well I'm sure most PS3 owners are busy doing other stuff that does not involve playing games. Such as working. Either that or playing other games beside Black Ops.

[XI_-Minty-_IX]

Even though I own Black Ops, I'm currently working through my backlog consisting of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, Nier, 3D Dot Game Heroes, Disgaea 3, Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland, and I play Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Uncharted 2 online too. Unlike a bunch of people who own a console and CoD games and call themselves hardcore gamers, I play everything. :-P

[dragon82]

I am also trying to get through some of my backlog while I wait for GT5 to come out. I have Borderlands, Assassin's Creed 2, 3D Dot Game Heroes, Bioshock 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 that I have yet to beat. not to mention I still need to finish Alan Wake and Mass Effect 2 on Xbox.

[nix]

Yakuza 3 (thanks to million thing u can do), inFamous (thanks to huge cities), RnC, F1 2010.

[Thoreau]

one of the biggest disappoints next to halo reach. graphics are bad and the game has texture loading problems on both versions (ps3,360)

also.....

stop the trolling nerds.

[SixZeroFour]

"cod black ops is.....
one of the biggest disappoints next to halo reach", and then goes on to tell ppl to stop trolling...lol, i am close to seeing it all in the n4g comments

[Skadoosh]

LMFAO! Dude you had me rolling with that one.

[SnakePlissken]

Totally agree!

[Paradise Lost]

That's great, 1 Million is still a shitload of people.

[braane]

If you have 3 million dollars, and I have 1 million dollars, does that mean I can't still happily buy things?

[jetlian]

on what you buying!!!

[OhReginald]

bbbut, but, butt... POEPLE DUN'T PLAY PALYSTHSION online hurp a durp.

[Ivan Drago IV]

BTW guys im playing on 360 right now as i type this and it says 1.1 million people online right now. Not much of a difference if you ask me considering "ps3 gamers dont play online games"

[GoldPS3]

While 1 million PS3 gamers play BO, 40 million are waiting for the GT5 release on 24th. GT5 is the only game I care about right now. BO can go kick rocks.

[yeracnivek71]

The same was said about MGS4, GOW3, LBP, Uncharted 2, etc....and the sales never backed the fanboy bravado. GT5 will be lucky to sell 5 million copies LIFETIME, based on the performance of the other PS3 top exclusives.

[GoldPS3]

I didn't say anything about sales in my comment kid.

[maxcer]

"I didn't say anything about sales in my comment kid."

yea u fukin did

"40 million are waiting for the GT5 release on 24th"

if that wasn't about sales then what the hell was it about? 40m waiting? then not buy it?

..well i guess they did it for 5 years it must be natural

[Pen15]

You're all in for a big surprise. Stop trolling.

[yeracnivek71]

...but it was obviously implied. After all, why the hell would "40 million (be) waiting for the GT5 release on 24th", unless they intended to play/buy it??? Yeah....

[Skadoosh]

GT5?? Yeah have fun playing your Mazda Sim. LMAO!

[baodeus]

What 40 million? Surely you can't be serious (there are plenty of people upgrade to the new Ps3 slim). Not to mention back in Ps2 (+ 140 million), how much did GT5 sell (12-15 mil?). Really, you really think there are actually 40 million individual PS3 owner and they all want only GT5?

@MrAnonymous
are you done with hearing everything on N4G yet after this one?

1 Million is great. Except, i only wish that KZ2/Resistant/Mag could do the same numbers.

[EmperorDalek]

...MoH had a whole 6k people on-line this morning. Go EA!...yeah, just Go EA!

[Dark-Cloud]

why you guys fighting for a game that in all consoles ?XD
fanboys ...
and ps3 have better games so get real and buy one ... idiots ..

[SnakePlissken]

Thats what good promotion and MW2s popularity will do! Black Ops is not as good though.

[Sizzon]

LMAO at the console-fighting in this thread, who really gives a shit about numbers?

[dale1]

live had 3 million,must of missed that it did over one milion a few days a go,its up and down since then.remember this is taken from a server listing it could be regional

[The real killer]

Just as i said last time, 360 users is more FPS oriented than PS3 users.

[TwistedMetal]

who are racist and talk crap. I stop paying for XBL because I felt like I was at a justin bieber concert because of all the little kids screaming and talking lol.

[ironmonkey]

yup a subscription you pay and just isnt any better.

[FuckinUsername]

While those million were playing Black Ops. I was playing Killzone 2 & Medal of Honor.

[Pen15]

I was playing MAG. :)

[SpinalRemains138]

I was playing with myself.

(and it ruled)

[Killzone3Helghast]

Give me a break.. I've already given up on the Battlefield series since BF2 it's time for you COD fans to let go. It's just been getting terrible and milked so many times it's just not even fun anymore. COD4 was and probably will be my favorite multiplayer FPS but anything after that is garbage.

edit: sigh and I miss the Socom series from ps2 era :<

[ian72]

I'm in the UK and on the first day of release the notices at the bottom of screen said over 1.1 million were playing on PS3. This was about 10.30pm in UK.

[bjh089]

xbox has like 3 mill people playin cause they dont have any good exclusives to play so they settle for cod lol u know its true

[UnagiMaster]

Listen, when i turn on my Ps3 and get on ANY of my games, i have MORE then enough players online.. i wait about 10 seconds and BAM full room. Now i do know that on xbox360 it IS faster.. but seriously if you think thats a legitament reason why xbox is "better" then please, gtfo N4G. If i have to wait more then 2 minutes every time to get a match full. THEN theres a problem, until then, Great game, amazing systems. Please. Grow up, and move out of your moms basement.