| Rob Wright |
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Battlefield 3 sold 5 million copies in week 1 correct? And these are DAY 1 numbers for MW3?
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| Eric Weis |
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Christian - it probably wouldn't be too difficult. In North America, a half-dozen retailers account for the vast majority of game sales. They'd be able to get Day 1 numbers with a few e-mails/phone calls to their contacts at each retailer.
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| Steven Ulakovich |
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Activision historically quotes sell through, and not simply shipped. If Activision calls the various retailers asking for sales numbers, the retailers will tell them.
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| Kris Graft |
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Christian, I appreciate the scrutiny to an extent, but Steven is right. This is typical of Activision and they did the same thing with Black Ops last year in the same time frame. http://investor.activision.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=529609
It's not so hard to believe, and as they state, these are estimates based on internal and external data. |
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| Lyon Medina |
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I'm not sure if it will continue. There are a ton of games that are still big AAA titles on the release this week even. Call of Duty has alot of competition. And I mean a hell of a lot of competition this year. Time will tell.
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| Curtis Turner - IceIYIaN |
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I hope my Config.cfg modification works for this game. I don't own it to test it though :/
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| Rodolfo Camarena |
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This came as no surprise to me that MW3 would break sale records. I said that it would and knew that it would outsell BF. As a former gaming retail Store Manager, I have seen the sale numbers for MW2 and it was crazy. Attending the midnight for these past releases, I have never seen a line as long for any title than MW3. Given the training and methods used to pre-ring up reserve customers to avoid lines at midnight, it still took a while to go through everyone and just hand out copies! Usually, we can get everyone in and out within 15-20 minutes, but for MW3, those guys took an hour! To me this is a bid deal because the store I went to isn't in a large town or anything like that. We even had multiple stores in the town with another GameStop literally across the street!
Well...enough of that. I see no games outselling MW3 on day 1 sales. |
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| Ramon Carroll |
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Was anyone surprised by this?
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| marty howe |
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User reviews on metacritic are slamming the game overwhelmingly for being nothing new. Yet, gaming press are mostly praising it (score around 88)
Is the Modern Warfare franchise losing its appeal? ie have consumers had enough and do they want something new altogether? |
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