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CoD:MW2 - Biggest selling launch in Entertainment history
I have not seen anyone on my Xbox Live friends list play anything other than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 since it came out at midnight on Tuesday the 10th. I am not surprised by that though as it has often been touted as the most eagerly anticipated game of this decade, and it doesn’t fall short. It is brilliant.
Yesterday Major Nelson posted a message to his Twitter stating that they had just hit a new Xbox Live record with over 2 Million people connected to the service at once. I read that message 27 minutes after it had been posted and had just fired up Modern Warfare 2, I was then a little shocked to see that half of those people were online playing MW2.
Over 1 Million people playing this game online, at the same time? Unbelievable!
Also yesterday news broke that Activision Blizzard estimated that they sold 4.7 Million copies of the game in the first 24 hours, raking in a cool $310 Million. In the UK & US alone! Thus making it the biggest selling launch in Entertainment history.
To put that in comparison The Dark Knight previously held all of Hollywood’s money making speed records. It took them 10 days to get to $300 Million!
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