Infinity Ward has revealed that its Xbox Live-topping shooter Call of Duty 4 is attracting "between 1.2 and 1.3 million users every day" just on Microsoft's service – with PS3 numbers "monstrously huge".
Speaking to Eurogamer.net in London last week during the unveiling of the new downloadable maps for the game, producer Mark Rubin revealed that Infinity Ward had been hitting these figures "consistently for the past two-to-three months, Monday through Sunday. It's crazy."
He added: "That's just 360. There's even more on the other platforms [PS3 and PC], but we just don't have the same numbering system. Overall, even without the other consoles, we are beating the competition. PS3 numbers are monstrously huge. No other game has come close, either online current, or total unique users in a day."
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
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The original Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2 games have been drawing players back in
I really hope we get other activision games on GP soon. My dream would be Scarface but I know the license probably expired
None of those games had dedicated servers on console in the first place? Were always player hosted. Did something change?
..And they deserve every single moment of it. Great numbers.
Alot of people play Warhawk and Resistance still too. ALOT of poeple. COD4 is by the biggest though. probably close to 2 million every day.... GTA, Haze, Mgs4, LBP, Killzone 2 and then Resistance 2 are gonna make for some sersiouly amazing multiplayer games...and no I didn't forget Socom: Confrontation which will be HUGEEEE. I just can't wait for the achievements system and to see how all these games and all the old games work thourgh Playstation Home... IT'S GONNA BE CRAZY!!!!
"PS3 numbers are monstrously huge." Dude COD 4 pwned EVERYTHING.
LOL Look how many people bought Halo and look how many are playing.... defiantely not the 7 million that bought it LMAO. Bungie you FAILED. I even traded Halo 3 in for COD 4 on my POOPbox and it is a better game.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAA silly BOTS.
The PSN is Getting more people playing COD4 online daily than the 360
But then again how many people play Halo online daily ? Bet it dwarws the figure's combined for COD4 on the PSN and on LIVE
Who wouldn't believe this? CoD4 is actually the best shooter out there right now.
all that hype and talk about halo 3 made me sick now everyone plays call of duty 4 and its numbers out due every shooter. its this game that everyone should be talking about and getting respect its great that a game that is better just can't be ignored.
always the games that are better never get enough respect and hype and talk of course though halo 3 is still going to be better no matter what in the fanboys world.