New Call of Duty outsells CoD4 by more than 2 to 1 in UK

sushipoop - 396 days 20 hours ago

PS3 version.

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Fishy Fingers - 396 days 19 hours ago

Impressed it managed to beat out WOW. Still, ASDA (supermarket) were selling COD for £27 new, since launch they haven't been able to keep up with demand.

Great game which I might pick up down the road, R2, Gears and L4D will keep me busy for the meantime and lets not forget that big shooter just a few months away now.

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xg-ei8ht - 396 days 19 hours ago

£27 is a good price.

I will not pay £40+ for a game.

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Sarcasm - 396 days 18 hours ago

I assume that WaW includes both PS3 and 360 versions?

And why is Gears of War 2 so low?

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thor - 396 days 18 hours ago

This only goes to prove that big names sell - lots of people bought COD4 and it was awesome, so COD has a great reputation. I don't think this iteration is going to harm the franchise, however, it might be a slight disappointment because it's not _that_ big a step up from COD4.

It's got some fantastic reviews, and some awful ones (but I don't think Edge magazine's opinion really counts for much tbh).

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Kleptic - 396 days 18 hours ago

surprised me...CoD 4 is without question the better game of the 2...and the hype for CoD 4 was huge...

i'd like to see the totals towards the end of the month...I know cod 4 was under estimated at launch shipment wise...and was sold out for at least a week nearly everywhere in the US last November...

still surprises me that people in the UK are so eager to go back to WWII though...i'll be taking a 2 day vacation there at best (read: rental)...

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MvmntInGrn - 396 days 18 hours ago

I am passing on this for now, just got R2. I try to stick with one game per genre for a bit before taking on more, by the time I am done with R2 it'll be KZ2 time.

I like the games look though, might not pick it up till it hits $30.

Next up is likely Mirrors Edge for me, then maybe try out Dead Space.

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Kaecyus - 396 days 18 hours ago

CoD4 was still at £34.99 pre-owned months after it's release. The demand outstripped supply, so we had our own little wii-like shortage. Only Activision did something about it.

CoD: WaW has a great price attached to it, no supply problems (CoD4 + WWII + Nazi Zombies = Lots of DVD pressing, plz) and already has pretty much everyone who bought CoD4 buying WaW, because CoD5 is as a CoD game has always been (apart from CoD4), as in it is in WWII.

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SolidLiquidSnake - 396 days 17 hours ago

I think is not a surprise, because the COD4 made the hype needed to its sucessor COD WaW...Before COD4, no COD game was so great as COD4!

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jtucker78 - 396 days 16 hours ago

£27 is really good, but I've already bought too many games and I won't have time for it until Killzone 2 comes out.

Oh, what to do?

There are just too many good games out on the HD consoles! Damn you Sony and Microsoft!

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Cinos123 - 396 days 15 hours ago

This is a stupid report IMO, I mean when CoD4 came out nobody saw how amazing it was truly going to be it wasnt till it won all those GOTY awards that people swarmed retailers and bought their copies. WaW is just riding its coat tails.

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Sitdown - 396 days 15 hours ago

or at least not in the manner in which one would usually think. Given the success of COD4, you should expect the COD:WAW to outsell it, and ride its user base.........especially considering the amount of people that have no clue of development cycle that exists between Infinity Ward and Treyarch. COD4 created the snowball effect......and COD:WAW came along and jumped on the finished snowball.

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DA_SHREDDER - 396 days 14 hours ago

Anyways,, just like I realized yesterday while playing COD4. It seems that most of the children are still stuck playing COD4. I bought COD5 at launch,, and it is better then part 4 in so many ways. The only thing part 4 has is better presentation. That in no way hiders the phenomenal gameplay experience of part 5. COD5 has a larger scale of battles, better graphics, visceral combat, blood, guts,, bigger and badder guns, and requires more skill to actually kill people. The reason why you little boys probably dont have the game is cause mommy said you couldn't play such a violent game.

Also, the reason why I feel that all the men are playing part 5 while you kids are playing part 4 is because all I hear are kids playing on multiplayer in COD4. B8tching, screaming,, name calling,, high pitched voices,, you dont hear half of that noise in COD5. I tried playing COD4 yesterday with my brother cause he doesn't have part 5 yet, and there was sh*t talking little kids that gave me a headache in every room we got into.

I always find myself muting people for life on part 4, but not COD5. People actually are really cool on there, even on opposite teams. Sure there are @ssholes everywhere, but its just ironic that all you hear in COD4 is little kids talking with homoerotic gestures, asking their moms for cookies and milk, and just plain ol annoying little brats. Im glad none of you have COD5. It makes my experience that much better. Again,, thank you for being ignorant.

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CoVsTa - 396 days 12 hours ago

COD4 owns COD:WAW, when u think about it COD:WAW is nothing compared to COD4, cod5's story mode is a joke, hardest story to follow, 1 min ur a russian 1 min ur an american and so on...at least u can actully follow cod4's story mode, cod5's guns are a joke compared to cod4, its also biased on what level you are...also what would u choose, a springfield of a barrett 50 cal?? hmm, dogs or a helicopter? hmm, COD4 ftw, they update with new levels am going back to it...
1 good thing bout COD:WAW...Zombie mode, gotta admit that does kick ass lol..

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Scary69 - 396 days 11 hours ago

I want to know how the heck this game beat COD 4 since WOW was a remake of COD 4 and COD 3 which I was disappointed with. COD 6 I will be waiting for.

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belal - 396 days 19 hours ago

who it at top ?

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Sir_Ken_Kutaragi - 396 days 18 hours ago

I prefer Salmon with my glass of Wine!!! ;-D

(While watching the xBox 360 Dying!!!) ;-D

I liked COD4, really cool game it is. I might get this(COD:WoW)next year(if cheap), got to much BRILLIANT PS3 games to play at the moment;)

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dale1 - 396 days 18 hours ago

It’s an Activision Blizzard world this week as the favourite for Christmas No1 ‘Call of Duty: World at War’ tops the All Formats Chart, becoming the UK’s 3rd fastest selling video game of all time (behind ‘GTA IV’ and ‘GTA San Andreas’).

It is followed at No2 by ‘World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King’ which is now the fastest selling PC title – a record that has stood since March 2003 and ‘Championship Manager 4’. The recently merged Activision Blizzard has its eye on world domination with not just ‘World at War’ and ‘World of Warcraft’ but also ‘Guitar Hero: World Tour’ which shoots up the chart from No17 to No6 thanks to the launch of the complete band packs. Sales from these 3 games alone accounted for 25% of all games sold last week. Last year’s ‘Call of Duty 4’ was launched in the same week, also reaching No1, but having to wait until Christmas to reach No1 for a second time. The combined launch week sales of the XB360, PS3 and PC versions of the latest instalment have outsold those for ‘Call of Duty 4’ by more than 2 to 1.

Sega’s ‘Football Manager 2009’ debuts at No3, making it 3 new games in the Top 3 as well as a very successful week for PC gaming, becoming Sega’s fastest selling game out of the 5 ‘Football Manager’ titles. Sales of Microsoft’s ‘Gears of War 2’ slip 64%, down from No1 to No4, while EA’s ‘FIFA 09’ also falls 3 places, down to No5. Nintendo maintain an All Formats Top 10 presence thanks to ‘Professor Layton’ and ‘Mario Kart Wii’, both down one place to No’s 7 and 8, but rising in sales, up 9% and 12% respectively. Konami’s ‘Pro Evolution Soccer 2009’ remains a major league player, holding on to No9, while THQ’s ‘WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2009’ falls 5 places to No10. Newcomers that didn’t make the All Formats Top 10 are Nintendo’s ‘Wii Music’ at No16 and EA’s ‘Mirror’s Edge’ at No20.

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Magic_The_Celt - 396 days 17 hours ago

Thats awesome since i love COD WaW way more than i loved COD4

much better game

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DA_SHREDDER - 396 days 14 hours ago

I enjoy the bigger scale, better graphics,and gameplay. Also, I love the fact that most of the annoying little kids are stuck playing COD4. COD5 doesn't have half the bullcrap from little kids like COD4 still has.

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Marquis_de_Sade - 396 days 11 hours ago

Having only purchased a PS3 6 months ago after previously owning a 360, I felt a bit lost without a solid FPS (I have resistance but wasn't too keen on it, looking forward to R2 though), so picked this up and have been happy with it. In terms of sales, ironically the only reason it has sold so well is because of CoD4 obviously.

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sparced - 396 days 5 hours ago

More console owners, all three platforms this time, more sales. Quite obvious.

I didn't buy my copy of COD4 until mid January, same time as my PS3.

Going to wait till I'm finished with LBP, Dead Space and R2 before I pick up World at War.

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