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Forums - Sales - COD : Black Ops DAY ONE Early Estimates are in!! (7 Million)

AnthonyW86 on 10 November 2010
shio said:
AnthonyW86 said:

I lol'd real hard at the 5% for PC, Wii AND DS... And seriously Activision, i love my PC but just stop making the damn game for PC, it only get's pirated like crazy, and it would make the PS3 and X360 probably higher aswell.

Despite the fact that COD sells millions on PC?

Uh... no it really doesn't i think MW 2 barely made it to 1 million, and for every copy sold atleast 3-4 are being pirated.



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Carl on 10 November 2010

Guys.

Imagine next gen.

Imagine the console bump when the Xbox 3 or PS4 (Depending on which one releases first) gets it's first next gen exclusive Call of Duty title.

Just... Imagine it.



                            

greenmedic88 on 10 November 2010
darthdevidem01 said:
greenmedic88 said:
darthdevidem01 said:
Lyrikalstylez said:

I aplaud all you purchasers for Destroying the videogam industry!!!

Expect loser Activision to release one every year

Not sure how this is "destroying" the industry

The game seems to be good in terms of quality.

He probably means "I'm not a CoD player and would like to see a franchise that I am enthusiastic about sell as well instead." 

Or he may just be one of those guys who frowns on any franchise getting "too comfortable" to the point where it gets guaranteed sales records despite doing little to push the envelope by simply giving mainstream gamers more of what they want. 

But if a game sells over 10m copies, I'm really not sure how that's "killing the industry" by generating tons of revenue and mainstream media attention. 

Excellent post!

And I agree with the bolded!

One argument he could use though is COD: Black Ops resulting in attention going away from New IP's causing them to have lower sales....but the again thats life. Any market has that kind of a problem, from the movie business to other things.

That would be the "RDR Effect." It literally stole sales from all other games that launched within the same timeframe (like Alan Wake) by simply offering the best play value for mainstream players. 

Although in all fairness, RDR was a brand new IP, not without risk. 

And anyone releasing a game in the same timeframe as a CoD game, should know their intended audience well enough so as to avoid losing too many sales to the current most popular FPS franchise. 

Besides, who actually argues that blockbusters are "bad for the industry" because they command more sales clout than the competition? 



Mr Khan on 10 November 2010
greenmedic88 said:
darthdevidem01 said:
greenmedic88 said:
darthdevidem01 said:
Lyrikalstylez said:

I aplaud all you purchasers for Destroying the videogam industry!!!

Expect loser Activision to release one every year

Not sure how this is "destroying" the industry

The game seems to be good in terms of quality.

He probably means "I'm not a CoD player and would like to see a franchise that I am enthusiastic about sell as well instead." 

Or he may just be one of those guys who frowns on any franchise getting "too comfortable" to the point where it gets guaranteed sales records despite doing little to push the envelope by simply giving mainstream gamers more of what they want. 

But if a game sells over 10m copies, I'm really not sure how that's "killing the industry" by generating tons of revenue and mainstream media attention. 

Excellent post!

And I agree with the bolded!

One argument he could use though is COD: Black Ops resulting in attention going away from New IP's causing them to have lower sales....but the again thats life. Any market has that kind of a problem, from the movie business to other things.

That would be the "RDR Effect." It literally stole sales from all other games that launched within the same timeframe (like Alan Wake) by simply offering the best play value for mainstream players. 

Although in all fairness, RDR was a brand new IP, not without risk. 

And anyone releasing a game in the same timeframe as a CoD game, should know their intended audience well enough so as to avoid losing too many sales to the current most popular FPS franchise. 

Besides, who actually argues that blockbusters are "bad for the industry" because they command more sales clout than the competition? 

RDR wasn't a new IP, just that people were mostly unaware of Red Dead Revolver



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greenmedic88 on 10 November 2010
Carl2291 said:

Guys.

Imagine next gen.

Imagine the console bump when the Xbox 3 or PS4 (Depending on which one releases first) gets it's first next gen exclusive Call of Duty title.

Just... Imagine it.

What, they pick up the extra 5% sales that went to PC?

Maybe if we actually knew the numbers as to just how many copies of CoD were pirated for PC and that number was embarrassingly high (say over 10 times the number of actual copies sold), then it could be argued that if those sneaky pirates could be strong-armed into buying a console and a legit copy, sales would be even more massive... call me a skeptic, but they'd probably just pirate it on console instead. 



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greenmedic88 on 10 November 2010
Mr Khan said:

RDR wasn't a new IP, just that people were mostly unaware of Red Dead Revolver

Red Dead Revolver had nothing to do with the success.

That would be crazier than claiming the millions who bought Bioshock were former players of Systemshock. 



blue7x7 on 10 November 2010

Wow I'm surprised it did better than Modern Warfare 2 I guess people don't get bothered by the fact that there is going to be a new COD game every single year. I would have thought the sales would have been worse for COD  Black OPS.



Carl on 11 November 2010

Guys. Close to 6 Million people online on the 360.

I think something is screwy though. This can't be true... I think it must be close to 6 Million people total played online, not playing online right now.

Insane... Just insane.

 

Someone else want to check just incase it's my 360 screwing up?



                            

yo_john117 on 11 November 2010
Carl2291 said:

Guys.

Imagine next gen.

Imagine the console bump when the Xbox 3 or PS4 (Depending on which one releases first) gets it's first next gen exclusive Call of Duty title.

Just... Imagine it.

that would be a gen sealer right there!



yo_john117 on 11 November 2010
Carl2291 said:

Guys. Close to 6 Million people online on the 360.

I think something is screwy though. This can't be true... I think it must be close to 6 Million people total played online, not playing online right now.

Insane... Just insane.

 

Someone else want to check just incase it's my 360 screwing up?

Ah yes that seems to be a rather common problem with tracking how many people are playing online at once.  I know it did this for the Halo Reach Beta