Please support Game Informer. Print magazine subscriptions are less than $2 per issue
Modern Warfare 2 Sells Close To 5 Million In First Day
Activision is releasing preliminary sales figures for its Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, days after it was released. Believe it or not, it sold a few copies. According to the company, it had more than $310 million of sell-through sales in North America and the UK, or about 4.7 million units. And that’s just within the first 24 hours. In comparison, Halo 3’s launch scored $170 million in its first 24 hours back in 2007. (That was just in the U.S., and it was only available for one console.) Grand Theft Auto 4 sold about 6 million copies worldwide in its first week in 2008, with sales topping more than $500 million.
Getting back on the subject of Modern Warfare 2, those sales make it the biggest launch of any form of entertainment since the dawn of mankind. Until the next huge game comes out, of course.
What do you think? Do huge sales numbers matter to you? Do you think something will break these records in 2010? Are you sick of talking about Modern Warfare 2?
I’d like to ask you to support Game Informer’s continued coverage of games with a subscription. For less than two dollars per issue, we mail you a full year of 10 print magazines, each with cover stories and preview features filled with exclusive details about the most exciting upcoming games. We profile and interview game creators. We look back on the rich history of gaming, and we celebrate what’s next.
Here on the website, we offer much of our content for free, including game reviews, daily news, videos, event coverage, and more – all with minimal ads.
We do so with a small editorial team, alongside contributing paid writers from around the world – over 65 individuals from 9 countries around the world, just in the last couple of years.
It’s not possible without support.
In a time when game makers and games coverage have faced hard struggles and layoffs, the future of this 30+ year magazine and community is at risk. Our new standalone magazine subscription is the number one way you can keep us alive – and we believe you’ll get a pretty fantastic gaming magazine in your mailbox every few weeks for your trouble.
Thank you.
