Gamasutra- According to official NPD Group data, lifetime retail sales of Black Ops stand at 16.4 million copies through July 2012 while sales of Modern Warfare 3 are at 13.7 million copies. You might recall that Modern Warfare 3 initially launched at a level 10% higher than Black Ops, but was falling behind in comparable period sales by the early months of 2012. On the other hand, Modern Warfare 3 has already surpassed sales of Modern Warfare 2 (2009) by about 800,000 units.
Activision recently commented that its a la carte sales of DLC for Modern Warfare 3 were down relative to a la carte DLC sales for Black Ops, but that premium Call of Duty Elite subscriptions mitigated the revenue. This suggests that the revenue from the latest games is not a disparate as the unit sales would suggest. When asked, Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities told me that "MW3 has no chance of catching Black Ops" in unit sales but that in terms of revenue it "will be close."
Which leaves open the question of what will happen to the next installment, Black Ops II due out in November of this year. Will Black Ops remain the peak for the series in terms of unit sales, or will Modern Warfare 3 simply have been a small step back before hitting a new high?
Recently, players of Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone were met with a new bundle featuring the B.E.A.S.T. Glove, inspired by King Kong's armament in the Godzilla x Kong movie. However, the $80 price tag attached to this themed accessory left many Call of Duty fans feeling underwhelmed.
Morons that allow themselves to be milked continuously by this company is the definition of irony.
Spend more $$ and you'll end up In easier lobbies so you win both ways when ya spend that cash
Controversy in the COD community feels like it happens within an alternate timeline. Activision will take the piss with something, there will be a momentary fuss about it, and then they will forget about it and carry on anyway. Repeat this cycle literally every year for the rest of time.
They call that a crack head! Thats what this is really about, its an addiction. People who dont smoke cigarettes look and laugh at the addicts that spend $8-$10 a pack, but they cant help themselves, they are addicted. That same analogy applies perfectly to the whole MT industry. Only an addict that was not thinking clearly would spend this kind of money on something so frivolous. A round of multiplayer provides the same high a person gets from scratching a lotto ticket, or putting money on a sports bet. MT in general need to really be regulated because you have a generation of kids becoming adults who grew up only knowing the MT era of gaming. Its normal to them and they will in turn teach their kids the same by just being a gaming parent and getting their kids involved with them in gaming. Thats why no matter how ridiculous the headlines keep getting out of the MT industry, it never seems to fade or go away.
I'm so tired of hearing about what they're doing with this game, its never going to change and it's never going to value the consumer over money, furthermore the people who engage so heavily in the microtransactions I guess allegedly are having a blast and can't wait to do it some more this year when the new version of the game drops.
Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.
Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.
Wishful thinking much
haha i dunno Black Ops 2 looks hot as hell! it may top mw3 in sales.
Too early to tell.
didn't the Elite pass thing make the revenue from MW3 higher than BLOPS?
i hope it will....
that crappy arcade kitty trash fps need to die already