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GameStop Sold 600,000 Call of Duty Elite Subscriptions
The game retailer revealed a surprising statistic in its recent earnings call -- it has sold over 600,000 subscriptions to Activision's Call of Duty Elite service in its retail stores.
While many have questioned the demand for digital content sold at traditional brick-and-mortar retail, in this case it appears to be a huge success.
GameStop president Tony Bartel commented, "In the case of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, we worked closely with Activision, Sony and Microsoft to pre-order and deliver nearly 600,000 instances of the Modern Warfare Elite DLC to date. This places the launch of Elite as one of our top 10 launches of the year so far."
Now, if Activision could just get Elite to ACTUALLY WORK.
Source: Gamasutra
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