Activision stated that its Call of Duty franchise has over 40 million monthly active users throughout all of its game titles, with 50 percent from the most recent release, Modern Warfare 3. Furthermore the total number of unique online gamers playing MW3 is 12 % more than the number for past year’s Black Ops.
Eric Hirshberg, chief executive of Activision Publishing, mentioned in an analyst conference call, “We have grown the Call of Duty franchise every year for the past eight years.” MW3, Black Ops, and MW2 are the top three most played games on Microsoft’s Xbox Live online gaming service for the System.
Modern Warfare 3 received 20 million users monthly and Black Ops got 10 million, as outlined by Activision. Additionally MW2, which has been introduced in 2009, continues to have 5 million monthly users.
Regarding sales the newest numbers at VGChartz.com indicate Modern Warfare 3 exceeding 25 million copies sold worldwide across all systems, putting its sales figures so far around the same totals Black Ops acquired in 12 month of availability.
The publisher also revealed that its Call of Duty Elite service presently has over 7 million registered users, from which over 1.5 million have enrolled in a premium subscription. At $50 per year, the company has announced plans to put out 20 content drops to MW3 gamers, content consisting of new maps, a few new multiplayer modes and some spec ops missions also.
What is your favorite COD title: Modern Warfare 3 or Black Ops? Or perhaps MW2?
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