Modern Warfare 2 dominates November gameplay on 360

by Justin McElroy 

Using GamerDNA results as a guideline, DFC Intelligence charted the popularity of 360 games last month, and there are some interesting revelations. For one: Every person alive or dead, including the author of this post, is playing Modern Warfare 2 as we speak. Okay, so that's a slight exaggeration but it was very popular, with somewhere between 22 and 17 percent of GamerDNA's Xbox 360-playing subjects playing the game throughout all of November.

Also somewhat surprising is just how well Borderlands – which, let's be honest, didn't have the biggest marketing push – did, handily holding on to second place until the release of Left 4 Dead 2 and Assassin's Creed 2. Admittedly this list doesn't reflect the time spent by those who aren't online, but do you seriously care about those commoners anyway?

Quite a funny graph, but the game is just awesome! 4m people have played on PSN already (maybe 3m... but a lot!), and I imagine the same stats are true for PSN, because as I have already said, the game is that good!

expected

not surprised at all.

There is a certain addictive quality to leveling up in Modern Warfare 2; I wasn't even that big of a fan of the original, and I find myself saying "just one more round" of multiplayer each night.

I haven't touched Gears 2 in about a month, and I LOVE Gears 2, lag/host issues and all.

I have a feeling that Bungie will be adopting the idea of rewards based on gameplay.  They mentioned in one of their presentations that people would rather have a rewards based system than a system based purely on getting a higher rank.  As far as MW is concerned I don't think they even take ranking into account during matchmaking, I hope Bungie keeps their ranking system in place, but also includes the unlockables.  We will find out soon hopefully.

It's to be expected.

Granted I don't know what's more scary. Me playing these over 3 days worth online, or the fact that still 500k+ people are beating me kill and score wise despite me playing 3 days worth. I saw a level prestige 5 last night while playing to.

I wonder why Halo 3 wasn't on that list\?  It would have been interesting to see what percent of people are playing it.

Yeah the game is being played so much.

Shocker!!

But honestly, the game is really that awesome!