| postofficebuddy said: There were so many people back then that expected MW2 to just stop selling at around 9 million, what was the basis for that? Like I said back then, anyone that seriously looked at its sales curve would have realized it was inevitable that it would cross 10 million eventually. And clearly the Infinity Ward breakup had zero impact on long term COD sales. I will admit GTA4 legs have been the real surprise in this whole situation. 2 or 3 years ago the idea of it crossing 10 million was unheard of. |
Remember Jason West and Vince Zampella being fired as president, game direcers, CEO's, and company founders? Yea, usually when that happens, games in a franchise change and sales crash. CoD could have gone either way.
But you are right, Modern Warefare 2 no doubt was going to break 10 million at the time of this thread, but future CoD titles could have done anything. I mean Black Ops was a Vietnam based shooter, there was no real garentee that it would have done better then World at War.
I'm also very surprised at how big Call of Duty grew after this thread though. In 2010 I think Halo 3 was still the best selling 360 game, and although MW2 was going to overtake it, I didn't think every future Call of Duty would overtake it as well. Halo: Reach also didn't do that well, CoD really got the attention of FPS fans.
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