It could look like good news at a first glance, but thinking again about it it's TERRIBLE! Now Skrotick will devise even nastier things to the detriment of both devs and gamers! =8-O

They're mostly just copying what the previous author wrote. I've seen plenty of wrong news over the year. There was no official day 1 WW total for MW3.

Official press releases:

CALL OF DUTY®: BLACK OPS II DELIVERS
MORE THAN $500 MILLION IN WORLDWIDE RETAIL SALES
IN FIRST 24 HOURS

Santa Monica, CA - November 16, 2012 -Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard (Nasdaq: ATVI), today announced that for the fourth consecutive year, the Call of Duty® franchise has delivered the biggest entertainment launch of the year. The highly-anticipated Call of Duty®: Black Ops II has achieved an estimated sell-through of more than $500 million worldwide in the first 24 hours of its release, according to Chart-Track, retail customer sell-through information and internal company estimates.

"With first day sales of over half a billion dollars worldwide, we believe Call of Duty is the biggest entertainment launch of the year for the fourth year in a row," said Bobby Kotick, CEO, Activision Blizzard, Inc. "Life-to-date sales for the Call of Duty franchise have exceeded worldwide theatrical box office receipts for "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars," the two most successful movie franchises of all time.
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 Sets All-Time Record for the Biggest Entertainment Launch with More than $400 Million in North America and United Kingdom Sales Alone

 More Than 6.5 Million Units Sold in U.S. and U.K. in 24 Hours

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Shattering its own day-one sales records, Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard (Nasdaq: ATVI), announced that its highly-anticipated Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 has become the biggest entertainment launch ever with an estimated sell-through of more than $400 million and more than 6.5 million units in North America and the United Kingdom alone in the first 24 hours of its release, according to Charttrack and retail customer sell-through information.

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Yeah when Halo 4 did not increase much from Halo 3 I knew game sales this year were going to weaker this year for everything...

Meh, Will still break 10m on each console after the disaster that was MW3 (in terms of brand image as it was so crap). Plus we've yet the see the legs of the game. I say wait until March to decide, as I think the crimbo sales will be higher this time around because the world economy has weakened yet again (southern Europe I'm looking at you) and the average Joe in the UK and US don't exactly have more money to splash with increasing food and energy bills whilst pay stays frozen.

Yeah a lot of people including myself did Not like MW3..

Luckily BO2 has sort of reparied the COD image for now...

Wow, the UK loves COD.

What happened to the whole 8million in 24 hours.

How much did black ops sell? didn't black ops sell less than MW2?

I know I could look but im lazy. PC sales have decreased on think since MW1. 

VgChartz probably undertracked the game. There's no reason why Halo 4 would be the reason for the decline, remember last year MW3 competed with Battlefield 3, and that was on both platforms....

If these numbers are true then its a combination of Halo 4 + aging consoles +franchise fatigue.

Black Ops 2 did a lot of changes to the game....maybe the mainstream didn't like that? I know those Strike Force missions are hard as hell, even for me.I consider myself a pretty good gamer.

i m who swich to Wii U Version