Modern Warfare 2 smashes past $1 billion sales
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010 1:14 PM Activision epic reaches global milestone in just two months
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has crossed the $1 billion mark in retail sales worldwide since its launch in November, according to internal Activision estimates.
In its first five days alone, the game sold an estimated $550 million worldwide - outpacing five-day worldwide theatrical box office gross figures for such films as Avatar, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and The Dark Night, (at least, that's according to internal Activision estimates and boxofficemojo.com).
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has exceeded our expectations and shattered theatrical box office and video game records," said Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard.
"There are only a handful of entertainment properties that have ever reached the $1 billion mark, which illustrates the power of the Call of Duty franchise and mass appeal of this game."
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=231418?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=CVG-General-RSS
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A HUGE MILESTONE no doubts
in effect, it may eventually end up outgrossing every box office movie barring Titanic (eww) & Avatar (yumm)!!
Love it or hate it, you can't ignore it!
