Mon, Jun 01, 2009 | 09:40 BST
Call of Duty franchise has totalled over 35 million products sold, says Griffith

Activision boss Mike Griffith revealed in Activision’s pre-E3 press conference yesterday that “Call of Duty products have totalled sales over 35 million.”
He also revealed, via Gamespot, that World at War has sold 11 million units in just six months, and Modern Warfare has sold at full price for six straight quarters.
Griffith also announced that Modern Warfare 2 pre-sales are already breaking records and the November 10 launch should rank as one of the biggest entertainment releases ever.
So, Call of Duty doing well, then?


16 comments
#1
_S_E_R_G_
01/06/09, 9:59 am
Hell yeah!
#2
endgame
01/06/09, 10:18 am
waw sold 11million? i wonder who buys the game?
#3
Blerk
01/06/09, 10:22 am
Pretty much ‘everyone’, by the looks of it.
#4
Patrick Garratt
01/06/09, 10:26 am
I finished it. It was OK. You get to shoot people for hours and hours.
#5
Mike
01/06/09, 10:27 am
In the face? Please tell me you can shoot them in the face. Please?
#6
No_PUDding
01/06/09, 10:35 am
Can I proudly say I didn’t buy it? I didn’t!
#7
tenthousandgothsonacid
01/06/09, 10:36 am
Me either.
I think it was just us two though.
#8
Mike
01/06/09, 10:37 am
Me either. That’s three of us. Like the Odd Couple.
Plus one more.
#9
Psychotext
01/06/09, 10:44 am
I didn’t buy it either. I can’t say I’m particularly proud of that though.
#10
Blerk
01/06/09, 10:46 am
I’ve never bought a Call of Duty game. I did play the demo of WaW, though. Does that count?
#11
Mike
01/06/09, 10:48 am
I still haven’t bought COD:MW. Maybe because it’s been top whack for six quarters
#12
G1GAHURTZ
01/06/09, 10:55 am
Mentalists.
#13
G1GAHURTZ
01/06/09, 11:00 am
tbh though, the only thing that really got me into the COD series was the COD4 MP Beta.
I wasn’t really interested in it up until that point, but it was the Beta that convinced me.
I got WAW, but I have barely touched the multiplayer and just went through it once on the hardest setting for the Gamerpoints. The only reason I usually have a quick blast on it is if I just want to mess around in a similar MP without caring too much about my COD4 stats potentially going down.
#14
anasui
01/06/09, 1:32 pm
I bought COD2, 3, 4 and 5 and ended up incredibly disappointed, I’ve never played a more shittastic multiplayer game than COD4
Sold the first two on Ebay so that’s -2 sales
#15
El_MUERkO
01/06/09, 5:05 pm
ever since the first dash across the cow strewn field toward a bombed church in the original Call of Duty demo I got a sense that Infinity Ward knew how to make a game ‘cinematic’ and they were going to succeed
#16
endgame
01/06/09, 6:04 pm
well that’s the thing, infinity ward didn’t make cod5, it was the guys at treyarch. and actually, they didn’t make the game, they copy/pasted it, but couldn’t do even that right. somehow they f**ked it up along the way. it’s a complete mess if u’r used to cod4, like i am. that’s why i’m so puzzled about how this game sold so much.