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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1223 Joined: 25 Jan 2009     | That's quite an announcement there, for all I know they might just succeed. They won't beat Wii-Fit, but they can certainly get the most selling game of the year...sadly |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2294 Joined: 20 Feb 2008     | Top selling game of 2009? Maybe. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4339 Joined: 9 Jul 2008     | Not if they're dropping the Call of Duty title it won't be. Traitors. It had better say Call of Duty on that box or I'll be buying that game with slightly less enthusiasm. And no one wants to see that happen. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2804 Joined: 4 May 2008    | Highest selling game of all time? Maybe. Sounds a bit egotistical.
Does it really matter? Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a bit tedious. I actually like the new change, it helps me forget that just about everything is part of a franchise. Everyone will still be calling it CoD6, though. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1837 Joined: 13 Jan 2009    | I don't get it, all the call of duty games play the same... Their not bad games just average. For me I really like BF: bad company and Rainbow six vegas 2. |
On the Record  Posts: 5532 Joined: 16 Dec 2008     | I think it optimism, but to actually declare that it will sell best of all time is a little bit much. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3916 Joined: 17 Feb 2008  | Well good luck, I'll certainly be picking up a copy. |
Paperboy Posts: 12 Joined: 14 Sep 2008     | Doesn't this just suggest confidence in how good their own game is? Makes me look forward to it even more :) |
News Room Contributor  Posts: 2410 Joined: 11 Sep 2008   | I will buy ten copies if Captain Price is alive in it. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2904 Joined: 12 May 2008   |
The blokes like 90 years old. Let him up will you? |
Muckraker  Posts: 345 Joined: 6 Feb 2008  |
probably because the majority of the people who bought cod4 had never played a shooter other than halo in their lives.
no, its a marketing statement, like when they said cod4 would have the best graphics and be the best shooter of 07 (both dead wrong), or the same things about cod5. cod4 sold 12 million copies, now i dont doubt that mw2 will be one of, if not the best selling game of 09, but considering gta:sa sold over 21 million and about a dozen games (many by nintendo) have sold in the 18-20 million area it seems like a far cry to say that mw2 will sell 22+ million copies. |
News Room Contributor Posts: 2410 Joined: 11 Sep 2008 |
I can't, he's my hero. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1046 Joined: 3 Dec 2007    | Lofty expectations. I don't really want them to succeed, honestly. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 604 Joined: 17 Oct 2007     | I'm NOT buying the game JUST BECAUSE they said that. I'm a rebel! |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 428 Joined: 3 Oct 2007     | I loved Modern Warfare and think a lot of the narrative done is some of the best we've seen in the industry (the opening credits, the nuke, the ending and mile high club were all fantastic). I'm not sure if Modern Warfare 2 will keep up, but I like Infinity Ward and at least trust we'll see a better product. However, I doubt this will be "best selling". I already have a number of friends that refuse to play another Call of Duty unless they remove the infinitely respawning enemies that force you to progress (I have mixed feelings: on the one hand, I like being forced to push forward instead of being allowed to hide in a hole until all the enemies are dead. On the other, it makes Veteran a bitch). |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1476 Joined: 6 Feb 2008  |
I hope this man has his tongue cut out like all other pointless jargon abusers |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2712 Joined: 23 Apr 2008  | All time? Ha! That's cute. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1258 Joined: 24 Jun 2008   | Eh not likely, don't get me wrong it's a good game but I don't even think it should get game of the year. Because it is the same thing we've done 5 other times. extra: I'm calling it COD 6 and if you have a problem with that deal with it. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 70 Joined: 11 Feb 2008   | Well, it's a bold prediction to be sure. I think it could be the best selling game of the fall season. But no shooter will be the best selling game of all time because the FPS genre is constantly being updated. Before Modern Warfare 2 can gain the momentum needed to be an all time best seller, Modern Warfare 3 will be out. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1557 Joined: 31 Dec 2007  | I hope also that what you said is what... is that. And things. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3390 Joined: 6 Nov 2008 | Well I know one thing: That's never going to happen and there's one reason why. It's that little kids and stay at home moms don't play Call of Duty so it'll never sell as much as Wii Fit. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1129 Joined: 11 Dec 2007   | I see it selling along the same lines as Halo 3, but all time? That may take more than a few months or years to accomplish (look at mario bros 1), and not everyone loves FPS games. So it will sell well I am sure, but not to that extent. |
Paperboy  Posts: 41 Joined: 9 Mar 2009 | Ummm yeah, no... Wii sports has an 1:1 ratio for every Wii sold. You do the math... |
Beat Writer  Posts: 147 Joined: 15 Jan 2009   | wait....................doesn't wii sports come with the wii so technically the owner didnt actually purchase the game rather had it bundled with the wii |
BANNED  Posts: 11268 Joined: 3 Jan 2009   | Even CoD4 didn't reach GTA4s sales, so hoping that this one will break that won't be realistic. User was banned for: Why do Many Girls take Pictures of Themselves?. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2231 Joined: 5 Jan 2008 | It certainly won't break the sales of stuff like Wii Fit and WoW, but I have confidence that it'll sell remarkably well, and for good reason. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 4 Joined: 3 Apr 2009  | Really? Best selling game of all time? In that case I don't plan on buying it. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1422 Joined: 7 Jun 2008  | An FPS beating Super Mario Bros. as best selling game? Don't make me laugh Activision. Now I have to conside boycotting so I can help shove those words back down the throat it came from.
So Wells wants too sell out? How many Street Fighter films and Blue Dragon animes do we need to show video games are bad outside of video games? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3923 Joined: 15 Aug 2008  | Meh, Battle Field:BC was better. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1065 Joined: 16 Nov 2008   | Definitely the best selling game this year All time? no |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2359 Joined: 1 Aug 2008  | Considering I will prolly buy another 360 just to play this game they might be right. *dreams of his M40 and MP5* |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2936 Joined: 22 Jun 2008   | Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2: All-Blacks 10 Dreadfully sorry for that one... I think it will sell well, but "All Time" is a fairly hefty title. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1333 Joined: 22 Aug 2008  | I already personally had no plans on buying it. Hoping/guessing it'll be 'the best selling video game of all time' puts an arrogant face on the developers that stamps NO SELL for me. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 123 Joined: 27 Mar 2009 | If there are no mutton-chops in this game I shall be very, very disappointed. |
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Modern Warfare 2 Best-Seller of All Time?
In a shocking development, Activision is hoping that the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will sell well. Or, to be more precise, that it will be the best-selling videogame of all time.
Are we still calling it Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2? Is it just Modern Warfare 2, now? Maybe Activision will end up taking a page from the Square-Enix playbook and call it Call of Duty 4-2.
Whatever it is, it's the sequel to one of this generation's most popular and critically acclaimed games, and it will be hitting shelves during the 2009 holiday season. Naturally, publisher Activision is hoping that the game will sell well - a ludicrous concept, I know. Given CoD4's popularity, it's certainly not an unreasonable idea.
Apparently Activision is hoping that MW2 will sell really, really well. "We want to propel this year's title to be the biggest selling video game of all time," brand manager Simon Wells told MCV UK. "That may raise some eyebrows, but step back and look at the franchise's trajectory through preceding launches, and this objective starts to look viable."
Even if Modern Warfare 2 doesn't post Wii Fit-esque numbers or top all-time sales charts, Wells is confident that the game can still be the best-selling entertainment property of the year, including other media like films and television: "The reality for a franchise as large as Call of Duty is that we are competing directly with entertainment propositions outside of the video game space."
(Via Joystiq)
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