Mon, Jul 12, 2010 | 12:38 BST
Analyst: Black Ops outpacing Modern Warfare 2 in pre-orders
Pacific Crest analyst Evan Wilson has said Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops is accumulating pre-orders faster than Modern Warfare 2.
Wilson’s predicted the game could move 12 million units during the holiday season, giving it a 20 percent increase over a previous estimate of 10 million units.
Wilson changed his projection after speaking with Pacific Crest retail contacts, which claimed the game has been pre-ordered more than MW2 at this point last year.
However, Wilson said Call of Duty titles setting successive sales records with each release ended with Modern Warfare 2.
Wilson said Black Ops is unlikely to have as long of a tail as MW2 due to “competition, weaker marketing, and the Infinity Ward situation”.
Guess we’ll see what happens when November rolls around.
Via: Industry Gamers, Gamasutra.
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9 comments
#1
LePlatypus
10/07/10, 10:14 pm
fster?
#2
YoungZer0
10/07/10, 10:21 pm
Much fster!
#3
Stephany Nunneley
10/07/10, 10:49 pm
Well, just think. It could have said “fister”.
#4
DJ Deathstar
11/07/10, 12:36 am
Its so fast it didn’t have time for the a!
#5
YoungZer0
11/07/10, 12:39 am
Well fister wouldn’t make any sense. At least i hope it wouldn’t. Where were you with your head at that moment? Something kinky, perhaps?
#6
AbracadaverAK
11/07/10, 12:58 am
Something to do with a RRP of £55, maybe?
#7
Droid
11/07/10, 1:40 am
Too many people with more money than sense it seems. And here was me thinking the economy was dire at the moment. People selling their kidneys to buy this game now? Surely it’s usually cheaper the next day after release.
#8
Dannybuoy
11/07/10, 2:12 pm
I’d happily pay £800 for this game
#9
DeSpiritusBellum
11/07/10, 2:15 pm
Geeze, I like a good Call of Duty shmup as much as the next guy, but 10 million sales in two months? That’s gonna be selling like cloned Lady Gagas.
@7 Oh yeah, I love me some 10 euro kidneys.