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Pineapple on 18 April 2012
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RolStoppable said:
Pineapple said:

Let's just point out that at this point, after 22 weeks on the market, the Ps360 versions of MW3 have sold 25.38 million. After 22 weeks, Black Ops had sold 22.05 million. MW2 had sold 18.29 million.

In other words, MW3 is doing quite a bit better than Black Ops and MW2 had at this point. In fact, the Ps360 versions of the two previous ones never even reached 25 million, so MW3 has already sold more than any previous installment in the series. Which means that it's the best selling retail game ever, excluding a dozen or so Nintendo games and possibly World of Warcraft.

Call of Duty is doing better than it ever has before.

These analysts are talking solely about the US market though. CoD obviously hit it big in the USA first with other countries to follow, so CoD declining in the USA could be followed by a decline in other countries in the future (right now these other countries are still showing growth though).

4.2 % behind in LTD sales, >50 % down year over year in March. Logically, MW3 will fall further behind in the coming months and at a rather fast rate.

But anyway, let's suppose MW3 sells 10 % less than BO lifetime in the USA, it's still not a damning figure. Merely a warning to Activision that they need to put effort into and not take their success for granted, because otherwise the decline might extend to other countries.


It's worth noting that the overall software sales in the US have dropped quite heftily too, though. A quick check at VGChartz numbers says that in from the start of the year to mid-April there were sold 70 million pieces of software last year, and 50 million this year. In other words, a drop of 2/7ths, or 28.5%.

The US drop of Call of Duty (if there even is one, VGChartz suggests there isn't a drop at all, even in America) is far smaller than the overall drop for US software.