Call of Duty 4 sells over 7 million copies worldwide
Category: Industry, Posted: 01/25/2008 at 12:49PM CST by Billy Wang, Previews Editor
Activision announced today that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the best selling video game of 2007, according to figures from The NPD Group. Since its launch in November, Call of Duty 4 sold over 7 million units worldwide.
Of the 7 million units sold worldwide, a little over 3 million units sold were for the Xbox 360 edition of Call of Duty 4 in the US alone. One can obviously note of the runaway success for the release on Microsoft's console.
The same can't be said about the PC edition of Call of Duty 4, since only 383,000 units were sold through retail. But the argument can be made that the total sales figures don't factor in digital distribution (such as Steam). Infinity Ward also noted the large number of pirated copies of the game too, which may have affected PC sales figures.
Will Kassoy, senior vice president of Activision, said, "We're very excited about this achievement especially given so many competitive titles this year. Consumer and critics agree that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is one of the best games ever created and further establishes Call of Duty as one of the premier brands in the industry. This ground-breaking game and franchise continue to establish new standards by which all other action games will be judged."
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Well he's not wrong, Call of Duty 4 was easily my personal GOTY for 2007. Still playing that multiplayer....love it. Glad to see so many others are loving it too.
Yeah, I think it's safe to say that the Wii will never have a single game sell NEARLY this well without Mario in it.
And the pathetic number of PC version sales is flat-out heartbreaking. Piracy has all but destroyed the PC market.
The thing about that, Yuko, is with a game like CoD4, sure the singleplayer is a big portion of it, but the multiplayer is an even bigger portion of it. The people that pirate the game might eventually buy a copy to play the multi, thanks to the handy CD key system.