COD4 has 11m Live, 4m PSN players

Call of Duty 4 has racked up 11 million unique players since launch on Xbox Live, and over 4 million on PlayStation Network, according to Infinity Ward's Rob Bowling.

Bowling revealed the sensational figures when accepting one of COD 4: Modern Warfare's three BAFTAs in London on Tuesday night.

[TheColbertinator]

Cod4 rules!!!

Even in Prestige Mode Gold Cross,I still play this game every week

[The Peoples ARMPIT]

Um it's cause the majority of ps3 owners are playing Killzone2 online on a daily basis lol. See we have something new to cling on to unlike the pleasefixme owners. Their still playing a multiplat game from 2007 lol.

[360 man]

peoples armpit just be quiet man

do yourself a favour

[Why dis]

Sure they are played it once online lol.

[commodore64]

@ tpa

Dude.
I don't know which stinks more:

Your armpit or your comment?

[NOOBSTATION 3]

you just have proven to everyone how dumb you are. kz2 online figures ARE NOWHERE NEAR to COD4 and NEVER will be. kz online figures would not even rank in the top 20 on live, maybe around the level of viva pinata or something, LOL!

so go and play your average shooter with those few ppl that are on psn, the home of lag, SUPERNOOB!

[GrieverSoul]

No wonder it has so many players on XBL and PSN.
The game is simply awesome!!!

Even though its not, I wish that each one of those 15 millions players were actually 15 millions copies sold! IW deserved it!

[mugoldeneagle03]

Never has a shooter given Socom II (my heart and soul) a run for it's money in terms of addictiveness and COD4 came damn close...

On a side note "Over 4 Million PSN Users" is a great number. Especially considering the major success there has been since then. When did COD4 launch? November 2007 right? That was way back when N4G was still running "WHY THE PS3 IS FAILING" articles...Oh wait...

[JokesOnYou]

especially when you consider people have to pay for Live, while psn is free....or maybe you can look at it like, since you pay for Live you play online alot more to get your money's worth.

JOY

edit: vvvvv Blademask, relax, now take a deep breathe...there ya go. Now where did I play with #'s? I simply made at statement based on the numbers IW themselves provided, and yes in compared to psn numbers they are dominate, you give your reasons why, OK so be it...still the end result is what it is.

@ nycredude....first of all the 360 has a ton of variety in its gaming library, and then this: "it could mean there aren't many other games worth playing right on the 360" -uhm, thats pretty weak theory, I've heard that statement made in reference to quite a few 360 games but when you look at the sales data for 360 games that excuse doesn't hold water. -You should put more thought in your excuses.

[Blademask]

You guys love playing with numbers..Old game #'s.

but i guess its all you can play these days.

[nycredude]

Yeah agreed, you can take these numbers to mean anything. It could mean alot of illegal copies, or it could mean Ps3 has variety of games, or it could mean there aren't many other games worth playing right on the 360. But to each his own.

Edit: BTW did COD4 sell 15,000,000 copies? Hmmmm.

[Mindboggle]

Hang on according to VG chartz COD4 has sold about 11 million total, thats 360 and PS3. And it also says it has sold 7 mil on 360.

Ok now I dont always agree with Vg chartz numbers but..

Either VG chartz are 4 million sales out on 360 (even with VG Chartz falling credibility, I find hard to believe, they are never that far out)

Or there are 4 million people playing pirated COD4 copies online.

Or the figures are false, as the article does say this news was reported by someone who was basically drunk.

[Rampant]

ehehehe

So much for the disagrees in the live vs psn thread!

I. REST. MY. CASE!

[IdleLeeSiuLung]

WOW, that is a huge gap with almost 3:1 in favor of the Xbox and even more suprising considering Live is a paid service.

I always assumed that Live would have more due to the headstart, but that this would be negated by the fact that PSN is free and that people would always choose free. It could be just for one game since PS gamers aren't as keen on FPS games. CoD4 is always on the top 3 list of games played on Live though. What about on PSN?

@mindboggle:

It is possible that there are more gamers than copies because

a) game is lended (or borrowed)
b) game is sold on the second hand market i.e. gamestop, ebay, craigslist & etc
c) multiple unique Xbox Live accounts exists on one Xbox 360 (which makes the PS numbers even more dubious)
d) rentals

[PirateThom]

Doubt it's piracy, but when you take rentals, multiple accounts and various other things into account (for example, I loaded up the online of CoD4 on my 360 ONCE under my account - never really liked it), the numbers do start to add up.

[Aquanox]

A good sign that Xbox Live customers believe that the service with totally worth its price.

Excellent numbers for an excellent game.

[Ju]

I have another theory. People play the Live Gold Trial, and then another one, and another one. 7M copies sold by 11M people played. That's weird.

[JokesOnYou]

this usually means different or seperate gamertags or psn id's not games sold, which means 1 household may have played the game with multiple accounts but obviously only own 1 copy of the game itself.

JOY

edit: pixelsword "You can't assume PS3 buyers will buy CoD4 any more or less than a 360 player"
-uhm I never assumed anything, what are you talking about? I made a statement about the 11m vs 4m playing online being a dominant figure in 360's favor, -nothing more and I never said anything about consoles sold, are you OK?

[pixelsword]

You can't assume PS3 buyers will buy CoD4 any more or less than a 360 player, so it's not like mathematically the game will sell at the same percentage across the board; if that was the case, then you could get the actual numbers of how many consoles are sold for each company based on that number.

That's flawed math. Severely flawed.

[BRG9000]

Used game sales may explain a chunk of the difference in games sold and users playing. COD4 is 16 months old now, and I bet a significant percentage of copies have been sold to a second owner through ebay or Gamestop, and some even a third owner since the people who buy used games are probably also people who sell games.

[pumpkinpunker]

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner.

It's used games sales and rentals. These figures are also over COD4's lifetime so there have been some Xbox live gold members who dropped the service during that time and some new ones who picked it up.

[Arnon]

I wish it was like that.. I tried to do that 'scam' where you keep using free gold cards, and it doesn't work. I used the one from Gears of War 2 to make a separate account so my friend and I could play L4D and talk at the same time. Then I tried to reactivate the account with the Fable 2 card, and all it did was eat it up, rofl.

[tda-danny]

Maybe cause PSN players have moved on to Killzone2 and R2...

Live users have moved on to... well they don't have anything better to play =S

[Ju]

@Arno. But you should be able to create a complete new account with a new trial ? No ? I got two of those but have never activated any. I don't want it and I don't need it.

[lowcarb]

It use to be that way but now MS only allows 3 free gold activations on Live. I've done it myself and see this as probably what happened. Now the question would be how many of those 4 million Playstation owners opened multiple accounts? Anyways I dont see why we care so much about this, but oh well.

[Jerkstore81]

That's because the other 7 million are playing Killzone 2.

[MNicholas]

... according to this press release

http://www.mcvuk.com/press-...

Someone's making a big mistake.

[pixelsword]

I was talking to someone else, but pasted the wrong name.

[rockleex]

Do you have to create a new account in order to use the free Live Gold trials?

If so, that means each user can do it three times. Multiply 4 million by 3 and you get 12 million. Which is pretty close to 11 million.

Not everyone will use the 3 Gold activations. So that means there's probably like 5-7 million users, and some of those used all 3 activations which bring up the number of unique users up to 11 million.

Either way, I don't doubt that Live has more COD4 players than PSN.

[Parappa The Rappa]

I can hear it now.
Can you hear it?
Its the sound of excuses....the cries of fanboys....

"MS made this up, they payed IW to say this"
"This only means everyone who has a PS3 is playing Kz2" <---and yet there are only a million copies sold.

Stop Arguing.

[outlawlife]

now i guess that puts the dispute over sony's number of PSN users in a bit of perspective

[Jager]

Really? a Game that came out 2 years ago? Seeing as how there was what? 8 Million PS3 owners when CoD4 came out? Love how Xbox fanboys love to throw "Attach Rates" when ever a 360 game sells poorly in japan compared to a PS3 game there, yet they always ignore it when ever its the PS3 game selling poorly somewhere... ooo the double standards.

[stix079]

why?

[soxfan2005]

The article says "since launch", which means 2007-present. It is not a reflection of online players AT launch. It's not like the game is out of print either. Anyone who bought a PS3 or 360 between 2007 and today can buy the game and play online.

[shadowfox]

how? PSN accounts are shared between PSPs and PS3s. They never claimed 20 million PS3 PSN accounts. Plus, that not all PS3 owners necessarily own the game either.

[pixelsword]

Like I said above:

You can't assume PS3 buyers will buy CoD4 any more or less than a 360 player, so it's not like mathematically the game will sell at the same percentage across the board; if that was the case, then you could get the actual numbers of how many consoles are sold for each company based on the number of people playing.

That's flawed math. Severely flawed.

[outlawlife]

what about killzone 2?
what does that have to do with anything?

i wasn't bashing ps3 i'm just saying this helps put it into perspective how many people actually play on psn

not ever 360 owner owns the game either, so whats your point?

it is unique users since the game launched 16 months ago cumulative
that means since it launched 11m different 360 users logged on, where as 4m ps3 users did

with a game such as call of duty 4 that sold incredibly well on both platforms correlations and conclusions can be made from the amount of players toward the actual population of the network

if we got other comparisons from other games that launched around the same time on both platforms we could see if a pattern exists

but given the amount of copies sold per system i'd say this is a pretty good game to go by

[pixelsword]

I copied and pasted from an earlier post, sorry.

Actually, I'm going to change it across the board because I was trying to be funny and phailed... hard. :D
"Unique people" basically means people on XBL and PSN which has nothing to do with console numbers. For example: HHG already said he had 10 accounts on his PSN, so if he plays CoD4 on all ten he already is skewing the numbers in terms of any accuracy.

The only thing you can use that number on is people who play that particular game, not for anything else; so for you to make a comment about "the numbers" in terms of putting the actual number of people playing online is baseless.

That's also assuming that they're not counting the PC's numbers for live, since you don't need a 360 to get an account for live.

http://www.gamesforwindows....

[outlawlife]

games for windows live is a different service, the gamertag can be shared but those are not counted in the xbox numbers unless they have been activated on an xbox

i went into this a few days ago in further detail in a different story where somebody said the same thing but the point is:

you CANNOT have an xbox live account without a console

[Dmitry Orlov]

um, WRONG :)
You can make an account via internet browser, pay for gold subscription, download it on your Games for Windows and play online.
With that kind of logic, people wouldn't be able to play online in GfW kind of games (Shadowrun, Universe at War, Uno, Dawn of War 2, etc).

[DelbertGrady]

The quote says "I’m delighted that we just reached 11 million unique players on Xbox Live"

"on Xbox Live", not "on Games for Windows". I don't think IW count in same sneaky manner as Sony counts their PSN users.

[Arnon]

1. This is talking about Xbox LIVE. Not Windows LIVE. XBOX-LIVE.

@ Jager

2. What do Japan sales have to do with anything. Also, why are you rooting for Japan sales, anyways? Compared to Europe, America, blah blah blah, their sales are low.

3. This is counting all unique PSN and XBL users that have played CoD 4 since it's launch. Not the unique users that PLAYED at launch.

Someone just stepped off the failboat.

[Gamed]

I don't think Sony has 20 million single users on PSN, by the time I get me a PS3 in a couple of years, they should have. That was somthing Sony should have never tried imo. They should have just said we have fewer active users than Live but we are growing.

[Marie]

Modern Warfare 2 is day 1 360.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Could be a day 1 PS3 also...

...unless it's not as good as Killzone 2.

I have faith in IW though.

[DelbertGrady]

I'd get the 360 version in any case cause I think it's controller is better suited for FPS games. Especially the analogue sticks.

[Arnon]

Agreed. The thing that separates me from the PS3 controller for FPS is the fact that the controller is big (which helps me get a better grip), the analog sticks have a concave effect to them so your fingers never slip out, and the triggers are actually triggers.

Which is why I kind of want to take a 360 controller casing and put the PS3 controller motherboard inside of it so I can play with a 360 controller for Killzone 2.

[Ju]

What I've never understood is why anybody would want to fire using the trigger buttons. Shoulder R1, perfectly fine (why would you want to have a longer way to pull a trigger ?). But maybe that's just me.

[shadowfox]

Something to note is that this is just the number of people that have played the game while online, not necessarily that have played online multiplayer. Microsoft has claimed there are only 9 million that pay for Gold, so that should throw a red flag right there.

[nix]

17/2=8.5. that's the official figure. rest you guys figure it out.

[IdleLeeSiuLung]

Unless you got people that have cancelled their subscription and new ones added. Also the definition if unique is not clearly defined. Would you consider two gamers on one gamertag/psn id (can you on psn?) two unique gamers? People that changed their gamertag?

There are a host of numbers of why you could have more unique gamers than current members.

[iHEARTboobs]

Haven't played it since Killzone 2 came out but it is a great game. But please IW, a little more support for the game next time.

[mrdxpr2]

well out of those 11 million there are about 4 mill played it online pirated soo 6 million are legit trust me thats the stats .. cause the only friend that has a 360 he plays COD 4 pirated and hes friends do 2 ... soo yeah thats that imagine usa europe and all other country

[kewlkat007]

Some of you take this too serious..lol

[dachiefsman]

how many drugs does it take to live in your reality?

[IdleLeeSiuLung]

I think the number of people that pirate the game is large, but the number of people pirating and playing it online is small. Doesn't MS periodically detect and ban pirates? I think they also ban the machine as well so you don't have too many tries....

[dkgshiz]

These numbers mean nothing

[na2ru1]

lmao

[bviperz]

is on my PC, can't wait for the next installment from IW!

[timmyrulz]

"well out of those 11 million there are about 4 mill played it online pirated soo 6 million are legit trust me thats the stats"

Christ we have mystic meg online, so from what source did you pull these figures from?

[TreborRversed]

Yeah gotta admit that statement is pretty dumb with out any sort of link to back up your claims.

[Mindboggle]

Amazing numbers, but does it really matter that live got 11m, i think even a 1 million active players is enough to keep players accoupied, and youll probably never play the same person twice. Its just more bragging rights.

[timmyrulz]

The numbers mean that x360 owners play this game online more than ps3 owners, you can rent games for both consoles

[BGDad]

This is obviously due to Killzone 2 stealing COD's thunder :)

[doshey]

more people play cod4 on 360 cause it aint got sh!t else for fun online games other than halo 3

[Chrisy]

The whole gaming world is on live. I cant even imagine what will happen when 360 tops 50 million sold and beyond. Its gonna get overcrowded soon. Its still awsome to play the best players in the world tough. Only amateurs on that other ''online service''

[dkgshiz]

You can tell by how everyone on live sounds like the chipmunks.

[doshey]

wow you are a tard for that statement

[BGDad]

Seriously every xbox has 4 accounts. 1 main holder account + 3 free 1 month subscriptions. Thats 4 users per xbox and dont act like people dont use them. Check out madden for instance you still see people with a 0 - 0 record? Yea right.

Xbox live sucks im sorry. Ive had it and i lag way more, get people disconnecting more often, and overall the gaming experience is horrible.

Xbox live has the advantage of unified chatting and adding players which is definitely cool but the actual gameplay online sucks. I also have at least 5 accounts at this point that can be verified on xbox.com... So take #'s with a grain of salt. You can make them say anything. Actually I have like 7 or 8 accounts. I had 3 xbox's break and on my 4th each one had its own account (because of free month) and then add the amount of 1 month subscriptions ive used on each.. How many is this? I cant remember all of them though just about 8 of them now that im thinking.

I guess you could do this with ps3 as well although never tried as there is no reason to.

[Chrisy]

Meh, when I play KZ2 im almost always in the top 3 even though I hate the DS3 since its total sh*t yet when I play COD4 is much harder to get in the top 3. Its not that live is populated by 8 years olds its just the gamers on it are just really good. Ps3 owners dont have many games to practice with so their skill is kinda weak.

Anyways I doubt the 360 version really sold 11mil. Many people probably just sold their game to someone else so they can afford some other 360 game. To many games on 360 ATM

[doshey]

Meh, when I play KZ2 im almost always in the top 3

i bet you do get into the top 3 on your imaginary ps3

[dkgshiz]

But its pretty old now. You think people would finally move on. I remember back in the old days when I would get first place every time. I seriously killed at that game.

[timmyrulz]

How the heck can people use killzone 2 as an excuse for the lower ps3 numbers, killzone 2 is about a week old, cod 4 is two years old

[freshkid1]

killzone is a beast it can do alot of damage in a week, i also stopped playing cod4 and codwaw cz of it

[doshey]

real simple, we have fun online game that keep coming out unlike 360s which last greats were halo 3 and cod 4 and 5(i guess) maybe if gears of war 2 online didnt suck so bad would of been the next best one but oh well thats what crappy servers get you

[freshkid1]

that is true there probably all waiting for COD?:ModernWarfare 2

[Gue1]

So that means there are 11 million people paying to play the game online? It seems nobody wants things for free anymore...

Or you can play online for free on the X360 with the Silver Membership?

[freshkid1]

there idiots who would pay online wen u can get free and stfu about lag because no theres not as much lag as before when ps3 first came out psn is just like live imo

[yoghurt]

I'd imagine ALOT have left now to play KZ2

[Arnon]

I don't.. Every time I boot up the Killzone 2 servers for the US.. there really is not a lot lol.

[Pootie Tang]

Yea I find it tough to find games unless u go in at prime time, but once ur in it's all good. Servers should fill up over the next few weeks

[SonyRulz]

...all 1 million of them. :o

[name]

If live has 9 million gold members how could they have had 11 million unique users playing online in cod4?

[KingKionic]

perhaps there are more then it seems?

[kewlkat007]

...

[DelbertGrady]

Perhaps some of them aren't gold members any longer? Perhaps they just used one of those 48-hour gold membership codes you get with certain games?

[OC Furious Dre]

15 million people that should be playing killzone 2

[KingKionic]

lol guess the see something more interesting perhaps? then again the fan base is three times size of kill-zones

[Thoreau]

MGO, KZ2, CODWAW, R2, and COD4.

[DelbertGrady]

Correction: the few PS3 owners that aren't offline are found on either MGO, KZ2, CODWAW, R2, or COD4.

[randomwiz]

I love how fanboys think that 20 mil ps3's is a small number... you can have $28 million, and I only have $20 million... Im so poor right?

[Bladestar]

well... too bad Sony will not release information about PS3 exclusive games like Resistance and Kill Zone 2...

[digger18]

And it matters to you why?

[buckethead_911]

Wow!!!

So LIVE has more than double the players PSN does....and that to when its not even free

:O

[Magic_The_Celt]

Holy crap..

i didnt think the gap was THAT big... in any case i dont play anymore, play COD WaW though :) (ps3 version)

[digger18]

add me matey... gispeedos

I'm playing COD Waw most nights.

Hey you tried playing COD4 after playing COD WaW online? After playing WaW for the last few months, I found COD4 so much easier to rack up the kills. Its like the bullets in COD4 are the size of footballs, so much more powerful and I can't miss...lol

[xg-ei8ht]

That's why buckethead. With PSN it's free, so you can it or leave it.

My friend has PS3 COD4, and until killzone 2 came along, he played it to death.

I can't comment on COD4 itself, i had it on PC and only played the SP.

But i have KILLZONE 2 and play it frequently. While i'm still doing the SP as well.

But live costs money, so of course your going to play it. Why the hell would you pay for live, if you didn't use it.

[freshkid1]

amen to that lol

[buckethead_911]

lol :D

[getheledout]

Although those numbers are amazing in difference. Considering anyone could bye the game since it's launch. I would love to see it as played online across platforms...that would be awesome. Anyway...Some friends and I were looking at what the most played XBL game was and COD4 was currently 8th on the list. If the difference...which I would have never suspected to be so wide...is really that much, than how many people are playing the other 7. Really, I mean damn and that really puts things into perspective.

@mrdxpr2- Even if there bootleg copies and you never know, there still being played over XBL. any way I'm positive the same could be said about PS3 as well. Especially since PSN is free and all...If your going to bootleg anything wouldn't you want to play it for free.

[Pootie Tang]

I don't get what is so hard for ppl to understand about this topic, right away there must be some conspiracy lol

11 million "UNIQUE" users, that's 11 million different "GAMERTAGS" that have logged on and played the game. Could it be possible that some families share a 360(i know it doesn't seem plausible) but bare with me, just think a family could consist of more than 1 person!! WOW! -then maybe that console had 3 players playin COD4 together

OR how about if a friend comes over and plays as my "GUEST"- hmmm never seen that before (sarcasm)

Gimmee a break, 11 million is a great number, and so is 4 million, if that's how many unique users signed on that's how many unique users signed on

[darkequitus]

family can share a 360, but not a gold subscription. My wife and I share a 360, but I can only play online. Her play is not counted on live.

darkequitus:psn/xbl

[Pootie Tang]

i have 2 gamertags on my 360??????
One is: SASKATOON and the other is KGS77 CANADA and i can play online with either of them, so not sure what u mean??? PSN id is KGS77CANADA But I forgot to add a space

r u saying u each pay for xbox live on the same xbox?????????
that seems very odd, i never heard of that B4

[shadowboricua]

Before KZ2 I was playing COD4 and COD5 all the time... After KZ2, I've forgotten I even own those games!!!! GO KILLZONE!!

[pumpkinpunker]

It's a member of the KZ2 brigade. An elite squadron of the SDF.

Primary Objectives--

1) Bring up KZ2 in every single topic whether it's Super Mario Bros or Halo 3. Always make sure to gush about it as if it took your virginity and made you breakfast in the morning and let them know every game pales in comparison to the awesome sauce that is KZ2 ESPECIALLY the game that the article/topic is about.

2)Write loads of CAPS LOCK HEAVY hatemail to any blog, website, or person who dares criticize KZ2 because clearly anyone who doesn't think KZ2 is the greatest game since Pong must be a 360 fanboy or retarded. Sprinkle hatemail with such buzzwords as ASSTARD or OMGBUTTPIRAT!1!.

3) Play KZ2 online every once in awhile. Love that controller lag! It's realistic. And if anything is realistic it's a story of futuristic space marines fighting an alien threat with orangish-red eyes on a largely unpopulated planet in a warehouse setting.

[DirtyLary]

You need to read articles carefully before you run your mouth.

It's stating unique players counts, not how many are logged in at any certain time.

KZ2 has nothing to do with it.

Besides KZ2 will be forgotten once the new COD drops later this year.

[BX81]

I don't think it'll be completely forgotten but I have a feeling a lot of people who think KZ2 is the best game ever will think again once COD MW2 comes out.

[Spike47]

Of course its on the xbox360's favor, but what does that mean? Nothing. Just that the xbox360 had more people that could buy and play the game online because the console was released earlier.

[ASSASSYN 36o]

Of all the mediocre explanations yours is the dumbest. Psn is free remember that little side note vs. people having to fork over $49. And you sony fans love to boast of how sony amassed 20 million ps3's quicker than ms did when it launched but neglect that little history now to explain the low psn numbers. Brilliant.

[kewlkat007]

..continue

[getheledout]

@BGDAD - It's not XBL that's letting you down, it's your connection to the internet. Have you thought about upgrading? If that was the case for every person on XBL, then you wouldn't have anyone playing XBL. Obviously that's not the case.

I have to agree with DirtyLary... when the new COD comes out, and since it's cross-platform, it will blow KZ2 out in that perspective. I don't think it will look any better than KZ2 but it will definitely be on par. Hell COD4 looks great compared to most games anyway and look how old it is.

Anyway the real question is?

Although those numbers are amazing in difference. Considering anyone could buy the game since it's launch. I would love to see it as played online across platforms...that would be awesome. Anyway...Some friends and I were looking at what the most played XBL game was and COD4 was currently 8th on the list (DOSHEY). If the difference...which I would have never suspected to be so wide...is really that much, than how many people are playing the other 7. Really, I mean damn and that really puts things into perspective.

@mrdxpr2- Even if there bootleg copies and you never know, there still being played over XBL. any way I'm positive the same could be said about PS3 as well. Especially since PSN is free and all...If your going to bootleg anything wouldn't you want to play it for free.

@DKGSHIZ - And you can't rent games for PS3?

I know this is a stretch but I got to say it... those #'s would also say, "If" 4 million people were to play COD4 on PSN, then that's 4 million people not necessarily playing KZ2, isn't it?

and here comes the PSN hate mail...LOL

[Z77]

why does sony fanboys say killzone is the best game ever and i cant stop playing it but their here on N4G. so it must not be that good.

[Ju]

Because we are at work and can't wait to get home :) LOL.

[Hallucinate]

then neither is halo, gears of war, fable...and apprently alan wake (some fanboys praise that thing to hell and back

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

11 million people playing COD4 still on 360 cause that's all they've got to play? PLEASE!. You are insane!

Maybe people STILL play it, cause IT IS A GOOD GAME?

out of 15 people on my PSN friends list there is only 1 dude always playing KZ2 online while one of my also Live buds, keeps bouncing on and off his PS3 to finish the campaign like me... and we wish there were co-op so we could finish the game together!. But overall out of 15 people on my PSN friends list, 13 are ALWAYS either playing COD4 or 5... ALWAYS!.

It's flat out A GOOD GAME, thats why people play it... is it hard to believe that the KZ2 effect didn't work on EVERYONE?. Hell, I don't play my copy of KZ2 online cause I don't like how the gamemodes are mashed together. I want deathmatch and NOT team deathmatch, I want to take on everyone... and that isn't offered to me in the game. So I don't play it or care for it!

The main FPS I go back to with my friends online are my Live buds that I play COD2 with!

At the moment Im too enveloped in Mad World to care what is available currently on my 360 or PS3!

Live = Xbox360me

PSN = SeanKWD

Don't be a fanboy, be a gamer... play ALL games and ALL systems!

[Pootie Tang]

actually i go back to COD3 alot lol, can still find player matches--still my fav multiplayer lol

[BBAM]

that's not hard to work out, concidering Res 2 and Killzone 2 have since been released

[ASSASSYN 36o]

Apparently it is very hard to work out being you got it wrong. Try and read the super short article next time.

"Call of Duty 4 has racked up 11 million unique players SINCE LAUNCH on Xbox Live, and over 4 million on PlayStation Network, according to Infinity Ward’s Rob Bowling."-KEY WORDS CAPITALIZED. Now tell us all how Res 2 and Killzone 2 or any other game recently launched factored into the number of online gamers in a game that has been out for some time? Selective reading.

[TheMART]

PSN just gets pwned by XBL in every possible way.

Its like eating:

PSN is like eating from the trashbin, its free but it sucks
XBL is like eating in a *** Michelin star restaurant. Yes you gotta pay for it, but its the best experience you can get.

[digger18]

Your just none fu@king stop ain't ya!!!!!

I'd rather have lag free PSN thank you.

[Man_of_the_year]

You must be on a different PSN than i am on...i get lag every once in awhile. COD4, Warhawk and Socom i have had lag where the other player warps back and forth...as well as i have also had lag on Live. i have the fastest residential cable connection Rogers offers so its not my connection.

I guess its only the Sony Fanboys that get Lag Free experiences on PSN...Hmmm.

[getheledout]

@spike47 - The game has been out forever and all you can say is," the reason why theres more on XBL, it's been out longer. Sorry Excuse...COD4 is a great game SP and MP. Anyone who has a PS3 could have had the chance to buy it...Especially being a game of the yr. anyway why discredit a obviously great game...Hell it's still getting awards and it's how old?

[ASSASSYN 36o]

But teh psn is free!?

[ASSASSYN 36o]

I am going to drop in the gutter and help you slow people out!

"Call of Duty 4 has racked up 11 million unique players SINCE LAUNCH on Xbox Live, and over 4 million on PlayStation Network, according to Infinity Ward’s Rob Bowling."-KEY WORDS CAPITALIZED. Now tell us all how Res 2 and Killzone 2 or any other game recently launched factored into the number of online gamers in a game that has been out for some time? Selective reading.

[belal]

killzone 2 ;) , i am 100% sure that killzone 2 has something to do wioth these numbers

[Microsoft Xbox 360]

Playstation 3 gamers have too much games to play online that's why. They are not locked with only one or two games to play on the 360.

[BX81]

What games are you talking about? Just asking because I spend most my online time on my 360 not my PS3 and I have KZ2. I haven't had my PS3 for that long though so if you know of some good online games let me know.

[Microsoft Xbox 360]

You guys do realize lots of people sign in to Live with a new username every month right? Its called XBL 1 month trial.

PSN gamers are not account wh*res. They stick to one account because its free forever. XBL players take advantage of the free XBL trial offer. If it takes signing up a new account every month to play online for free then so be it.

[Arnon]

You obviously do not own a 360. Nor do you know any information about the console itself or the regulations MS uses.

A account on the 360 can only use 1 free card. I've tried it.

You are also SO wrong. Not to mention how much of a jack*ss you are for justifying the entire 360 community. About 3% (reasonable percentage) of XBL members will make an account every time they get a card. It's a HASSLE to do so.

[ASSASSYN 36o]

And that hassle arnon is talking about is entering credit card info. and applicable info. over and over just to play for a day. And those 1 month free cards come with consoles only. 48 hours free cards come with high profile games only. You really are ignorant of how live and free live cards work.

[Pootie Tang]

Is a SONY fanboy, he obviously has NO clue how xbox live works,
when u redeem a free 1 month trial card u don't get a new account, how stupid is that, they tag on another month to your subscription expiry date. If mine expired in Nov and i redeemed a 1 month trial my new expiration date is Dec

[Arnon]

uhh.. try:

-making a new email account
-making a new gamertag
-entering a new credit card

^^^

Those are a hassle.

[pumpkinpunker]

"PM
Track
Ignore
16.4 -
uhh.. try:

-making a new email account
-making a new gamertag
-entering a new credit card"

This shouldn't work. MS locks out your specific 360 altogether from free trials.

[anubis12]

wow and people pay to play live...ahah

[The_Beast]

haha...so sad.. we get the best fps :D go killzone 2

[Man_of_the_year]

not according to the industry...kz2 - 92% Halo3 - 94%

[borgome]

what a sweet burn, Ps3 oweners just watch blu-ray movies confirmed. The proof is in the pudding.

[irishxdrunk]

COD 4 was the last good online fps for the 360. Before that, I loved Rainbow 6 Vegas. I'm still a sucker for anything that claims to be a modern tactical fps.

Killzone 2 was the only shooter that I have enjoyed on the ps3.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

I am guessing there is a large number of gamers who have both 360 and PS3 and quite possibly have played it on both. So the actual numbers are a bit skewed...but its still impressive.

[ShabzS]

15 - 16 mil users .. no surprises there its an awesome game... this is one of the games that really motivates me to go and subscribe gold... good job IW ... cant wait for mw2

[MiztaToungueTwista]

well most of the players on ps3 are playing killzone2 so no more cod4 for us

[Bladestar]

and you people are stupid... these numbers are cumulative... overtime. Kill Zone 2 just came out compared to COD4.

You people can't stupid read? "since launch"... The same argument would apply... since lots of people are playing other games like COD WW... fable, Fallout and others that came after...

As I said before too bad Sony will not show PSN activity with games like Resistance and Kill Zone 2... so we can see the embarrassment that PSN compared to Games like this one and microsoft wear as a batch of honor to prove the success of the games... and not with farts as Sony does.

Believe it... if PSN stats would be worth mentioning they would be all over it.

[randomwiz]

Wow... 11 million
Wow... 4 million

Both are impressive numbers. COD4 was my favorite online game... I got it on the 360, because I'm already paying for live, and more of my friends have it, and the controller feels better for me. Then the disc got scratched when i lent it to a friend... so i got it on the ps3, now I play Killzone 2.

[free2game365]

A lot of these numbers don't make sense, a good half of the people who played COD4 likely never touched the online for one, if not more, It's pretty grounded that the PS3 version sold worse than the PC version for one also, so that would mean the total sale numbers for COD4 would be in the 40 million range somehow, which doesn't make sense either.

[voodoo341]

Saying the 360 version of COD 4 sold just over 6 million units you're right saying the numbers dont make sense.

"The figures track all players, not just those who've played online multiplayer"

Eh?

[glennc]

i still prefer bad company, COD is too claustrophobic for me... and you can't blow everything up, never had so much fun online. i just wish more people gave it a chance instead of just playing COD and Halo which are both, in my opinion, old school (i don't mean graphically). i want next-gen gaming, that's what we were promised. they feel out of date.

[mal_tez92]

Considering how its the best game on LIVE and the second best game on PSN

[Blackcanary]

Well i never bought the game when it came out and everyone that i know who's on my Friend list on PSN hate COD4 so......

[crazyclown]

thats just a plain dumb article - psn everyones on killzone 2

[Hobadoon]

... A plain dumb reader? The article states the amount of unique users who have played it online in total. NOT the people who are playing it currently.

http://www.rif.org

[cjflora]

Damn! I knew I should have bought it for the 360! How am I ever going to find people to play against with a measly 4 million players? Who knows how many millions of 10 year old's I'm missing out playing against. Oh well, I've made my bed...

[Avenged Sevenfold]

I doubt CoD4 sold 15 million on consoles alone...

[SonyRulz]

They never SAID the 360 version of COD4 sold 11 million, you morons...just that many played it on LIVE. Haven't any of you idiots heard of RENTALS? God...what a bunch of dumbasses.

[panasonic23]

lol sonyfans are dumb he said since the game launch 2007 resistance 2 launch late 08 and sold bad so we now resistance 2 didn't do nothing.killzone 2 just came out this year so how the hell ps3owners where playing killzone 2 in 2007.

[aueslander]

...Rentals borrowing copies, used from gamestop. Think about it, even if 6 mil only were sold for 360, though it wouldnt make up 5 mil, you have people who rented it to play it, bought a used copy from gamestop, or (like i did to try before buy since i am a cheap bastard) borrow it from friends to try it out. Aso, you have people who being in guests to the online which register as a seperate user so, there are many reasons for it to be at 11 miil if you just stop to think about it.

[OOG]

Meh no doubt about it.... if I was to compare 360 CoD4 players to playstation... I would personally say more copetition and better competition play the 360 one....

butwhatever who cares...

[JHUX]

Good numbers for both imo, this game deserves it. I hope they make the next one as addicting as the 1st one is. Of course I am going to be over loaded with FPS games r2, kz2, cod:MW2. All are worth it in my opinion.

[Firstkn1ghT]

Complete domination.

[TwistedMetal]

ps3 users are far less likely to create another account to play online games with. If ps3 users create another account its to go to a different countrys store to get a demo or something. as for x360 owners my friend had 7 free xboxlive 1 months cards and he just create a whole new account in order to play games on live with the free 1 months cards and yes many people on the internet has said they did this as well and it works. you just have to create a whole new account.

[euchreprof]

Killzone 2 > Halo 1+2+3+Wars

[hulud86]

I thought Halo Wars would be fun abd then i played it. Argh. Seriously, if i wanted to play Command & Conquer, i would have.

[hulud86]

This is exactly why Infinity Ward is making Modern Warefare 2. This game is awesome, unlike World at Whatever.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Mines 7" million bigger.

[bewrong666]

killzone 2 owns cod4 multiplayer :P seriously i was a big cod4 gamer but has stopped after experiencing kz's

[SprSynJn]

That number would probably be higher if Infinity Ward didn't stiff the PS3 version of service. I sold my copy because of that and have no intention of purchasing Modern Warfare 2 unless they show they will support it.