Modern Warfare's $1B Sales Are Not That Impressive Compared To Previous CoD's

While selling over $1 billion worldwide may seem like a monumental feat, other Call of Duty titles eclipse the recent announcement of Modern Warfare sales.

[extermin8or]

I mean considering the decline the series had been undergoing in recent years it is. Compared to it at the height of popularity when modernwarfare 2 was released a decade ago no it isnt that impressive, however it is still excellent sales revenue for any game and not to be sniffed at.

[Darkwaver517]

You'll find that in the article, I pretty much agree with you :D

[LA_Zeo]

This game isn’t that impressive once you stat trying to grind in it.

[Smokehouse]

People don’t even hate on cod anymore. It was “year cod dies” for like 10 years until people got bored of being wrong. It’s just there every year and it’s expected to make a billion dollars. The fact that it’s not impressive anymore is impressive really.

[Fist4achin]

Theres a lot more competition with either a similar or improved formula for gamers to choose from. I remember when it used to be just COD, Halo, and BF as your main choices for shooters. Maybe general interest has waned as well over time and a combination of an oversaturated market to choose from. Oh well, theyre not hurting...

[Smokehouse]

A lot more competition and it’s still making a billion dollars, that’s the impressive part.

[Darkwaver517]

Bored of being wrong? In the article we describe the exact games that didn't make a billion. Not so coincidentally those were all released in sequence, starting with ghosts all the way through advanced warfare, Black ops 3 etc. So yeah, there was a period of time, not 10 years mind you, but a good 5 years where the franchise was stuck in a rut. People weren't wrong, they were critical of a franchise that wasn't that good anymore and the sales figures reflect this. But they've come back and let's be very clear, no other franchise rakes in more cash than them and that's impressive. But being innovative would also be quite impressive

[Smokehouse]

They were wrong about the “year cod finally dies”. It never died. People stopped saying that because they realized it won’t die anytime soon, regardless of sales or criticisms.

[BenRC01]

You new to games journalism? Obvs fortnite, pubg, Apex, bf5, overwatch, r6 etc all taking a chunk theses days. Cod used to have the place to itself.

[Darkwaver517]

As much as I'd like to attack you in my defense, I'll just state that MW3 took 16 days to get to a billion. That came out a month after Battlefield 3, the best selling BF game. Same year as Crysis 2, Homefront, Killzone 3, Red Orchestra 2, Operation Flashpoint etc. It was crowded then as well. And those are just the games that came out in the same year. You mention only one game that came out this year.