Tue, Nov 03, 2009 | 14:54 GMT
GameStop: Modern Warfare 2 will be “biggest entertainment launch of all time”
Looks like retailers are gearing up for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and it’s gonna be big folks. We’re talking riot inducing big. People stepping over old ladies and children to get their hands on a copy – Costanza style.
According to GameStop’s VP of merchandising, Tony Bartel, preorders for the title exceeded all expectations and he predicts a massive launch.
“By all indicators, we anticipate Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will be the biggest entertainment launch of all time,” said Bartel. “As of today, the number of preorder reservations we’ve taken for the game is the highest for any title we’ve ever sold in our 6,200 store network.”
To get ready for the mad dash through the doors, GameStop’s holding midnight launches at its stores, and so is Walmart, where more than 2,600 locations have supplies of the game at ready to sell once 12:01am strikes on Tuesday.
The first 20 customers in line at participating Walmart stores even get an autographed game cover signed by the Infinity Ward team.
Amazon’s upping the ante a bit more, giving the city in America with the most preorders a $5,000 donation to its local charity.
Awesome stuff, there.
Via USA Today.
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Posted in: Action, Activision Blizzard, Hot, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: call of duty, infinity ward, modern warfare 2
13 comments
#1
blackdreamhunk
03/11/09, 2:23 pm
too bad there never ever going to be as big as blizzard or vavle
oh I have another great link about the 360 verion lol
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/36328/Modern-Warfare-2-already-pirated
yea gamestop and the used game market should be fun lol
I am really looking forward to gamestop used game sales for this game lol
in fact i am soooo popmped to see gamestops money they are going to make on this game
ahahahaha
#2
G1GAHURTZ
03/11/09, 2:28 pm
Cool. Bigger than Halo 3, as I expected. I still think that MW2 will break Halo 3′s initial sales record.
#3
freedoms_stain
03/11/09, 2:30 pm
Gaming launch, conceivably, all of entertainment? Probably not.
#4
G1GAHURTZ
03/11/09, 2:35 pm
Halo 3 managed to do it, so it’s possible.
#5
Blerk
03/11/09, 2:39 pm
Sometimes I wish I could figure out what all the excitement was about.
#6
G1GAHURTZ
03/11/09, 2:40 pm
It’s about guns, Blerk.
Guns.
#7
Blerk
03/11/09, 2:42 pm
By ‘guns’ do you mean ‘guns’ or ‘penises’?
#8
MRxVENGEANCE
03/11/09, 2:46 pm
Greatest news story ever just for the Seinfeld reference!
#9
G1GAHURTZ
03/11/09, 2:47 pm
Eeerrrrmm…
Hmm… Let me think…
Yep.
It’s definitely guns.
#10
blackdreamhunk
03/11/09, 2:47 pm
here more leaked videos because the game is been pirated on the 360
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mitWc-pLgok&feature=player_embedded
#11
Psychotext
03/11/09, 2:52 pm
Pirated you say? My god, this is unprecedented!
#12
Syrok
03/11/09, 2:53 pm
“Amazon’s upping the anti”
It’s ante.
#13
Stephany Nunneley
03/11/09, 2:56 pm
Bah. I am only on my third cup of coffee. Thanks Syrok, it’s fixed.