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Modern Warfare 2 sells 7 million copies on day one

Modern Warfare 2 destroys all records to become the fastest-selling game of all time worldwide

Early data is in and the confirmation that Modern Warfare 2 will become the fastest-selling game of all time isn't a big suprise in itself, but the margin with which it looks to take the record is astounding.
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Published: 58 days 3 hours ago | Rumors | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | PC
 
 

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ubiquitious - 58 days 3 hours ago
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It'll also have the highest number of trade-ins EVER

You 7 million should have rented it. ESPECIALLY you 360 owners.
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JOLLY1 - 58 days 3 hours ago
1.1 - especially 360 owners?
Do you mean the owners that can actually play online?
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darkequitus - 58 days 3 hours ago
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I don't no why especially [openzone style statement] 360 owners? Anyway, I am renting because I know I will not playing the MP.
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lociefer - 58 days 3 hours ago
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lmfao 7 millions day 1 ? more like 4 -5 max , i call BS on that, oh wait,, VGchartz
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bmw69 - 58 days 3 hours ago
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Looks like Pachter was right with 12 million + by the year end!
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The-Warranty - 58 days 3 hours ago
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Yeah but its Vgchartz.

And they have been wrong before disgaree all you want, especially on Halo ODST first day sales.

They claimed ODST sold 2 million on day one.
http://www.n4g.com/industry...

But it turned out it only sold 1.8 million in the month of September.
Source = http://www.mcvuk.com/news/3...
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evrfighter - 58 days 3 hours ago
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vg charts is vg charts.
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toaster - 58 days 3 hours ago
1.7 - Since when has VGchartz ever been true....
Impressive numbers.

lol PC is only 12%. Keep it up guys. Maybe IW will break and finally give us what we want.

EDIT: Ha console/360 fanboys are spamming disagree button.

@Syronicus below me

Naw man that's only the casual gamers who wouldn't know a CPU from a GPU.
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The Creep - 58 days 3 hours ago
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7 million on day 1 is just crazy
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mint royale - 58 days 3 hours ago
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If these numbers are accurate then holy hell.

@saigon
All numbers that company's release are sold to retail. If activision reports the sales now they will be to retail. Vgchartz is trying to estimate sales to consumers.

@stan lee
you are correct in what you say except for NPD, Media Create etc giving numbers of sold to retail. They *estimate* sales to consumers, much like VgChartz does but with a greater amount of sources to provide data.

Nintendo, Sony and MS report sold to retailers on their quarterly accounts (the numbers are meant for investors not for us and its the retailers who pay them the money.)
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fishd - 58 days 3 hours ago
1.10 - I know this is vgcharts and all but
HOLY GREAT MOTHER OF GOD!!!

It also sold 1.23m in UK on first day and doubled the previous record

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/3...

GODDAMN!!!
I can't wait for November NPD!lol

fukc Activision tho xD
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Saigon - 58 days 3 hours ago
1.11 - i think they mean
shipped to retail...MS does this number game also...I haate it...notice how sony never tells how many games were shipped to retail...they just wait for the NPD, MC, etc report to come out...
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Syronicus - 58 days 3 hours ago
1.12 - "lol PC is only 12%. Keep it up guys. Maybe IW will break and finally give us what we want."
Think again. The PC version was only about 10% of the total sold for COD4. These numbers would indicate that even the hater PC crowd is actually buying the game... Shame on them!
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StanLee - 58 days 3 hours ago
1.13 - @ Saigon
Everyone reports numbers shipped to retailers, no matter what some random Sony exec said. The fact is, there is no way to accurately track the number sold to consumers unless each consumer who purchases an item self reports and consumers do not; that's a fact. NPD, ChartTrack and Media Create all track numbers shipped to retailers with some retailers even excluded and not accounted for.

Edit: Funny how fcuking morons can disagree with facts.
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kws1065 - 58 days 3 hours ago
1.14 - I call this BS because
last time VG estimated 2 mil for ODST in 24 hours but it actually sold 1.8 million worldwide until early November.
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bmw69 - 58 days 2 hours ago
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No, ODST sold 1.8m in the US+UK until early November via NPD and ChartTrack data (i.e no Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Benelux etc).

Also the game was very heavily frontloaded.
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Lifendz - 58 days 2 hours ago
1.16 - I'm one of those 7 million
got it for PS3 and can't wait to get it going this weekend. Some of the most fun moments I've ever had were playing multiplayer with a group of friends. I can't believe the backlash the game's getting. The single player in the first one was short. I got my money's worth on the multiplayer. And it's not like they pulled an ODST and gave me maps I already had. These are all brand new maps.

If you're a PC guy and feel burned, hey, I sympathize. But as a PC guy you have a plethora of games like Modern Warfare to choose from. And Battlefield is coming. So let the console guys, like me, enjoy the game.
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kws1065 - 58 days 2 hours ago
1.17 - @bmw69
I guess that changes almost nothing about 2 mil in 24 hours is BS, considering most of HALO series have sold in US.
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Poopface the 2nd - 58 days 2 hours ago
1.18 - hahhahha I did rent it on 360 over PS3 AND I HAVE BOTH
PSN doesnt work and I knew atleast something about the 360 version would be better. Guess I was pretty right.

not sure why you think 360 owners should have rented but I did. Does that make you happy? Would you have been happier if I rented it on PS3 and couldnt play online like you? That must suck.

Well thats alot of sales if true. Maybe with all 3 versions selling an insane amount. Who knows. I did rent mine at BBV and they must have had at least 30-40 copies for rent between ps3 and 360. More were for 360 but I have never seen a BBV have taht many copies of a game for either ps3 or 360. I think they know they will be able to sell some used copies of it layer I guess. With alot of BBVs and GF getting massive copies and some really insane sales worldwide it could be possible.

If this is true thats insane sales even though its WW numbers.
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DarkMantrid - 58 days 2 hours ago
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If this is true or even close to true then id be mighty impressed! Although id like the game better if i could actually play online -.-

lets just hope its fixed soon.
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SHAGGY62 - 58 days 2 hours ago
1.20 - SO much for the Boycott.
I guess we'll have more generic warfare games to look forward to sigh. anyway i'll pass waiting for bad company 2 & MAG
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Syronicus - 58 days 2 hours ago
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"@Syronicus below me

Naw man that's only the casual gamers who wouldn't know a CPU from a GPU."

Maybe so but they are the ones buying the game and to Activision, that is all that matters. So much for a boycott...
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HolyOrangeCows - 58 days 1 hour ago
1.22 - Xbox 360 owners buying over-hyped/marketed, short games with slightly enhanced Multiplayer modes?
Gasp! What a shocker!
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Kigmal - 58 days 1 hour ago
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I don't believe it's that much sold in a day.
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mint royale - 58 days 1 hour ago
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@holyorangecows

This same report also says 3.3 million ps3 versions are projected to be sold week 1. That (undeservedly) blows uncharted 2 out of the water.

So really what was that statement beyond fanboyism?
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Bubbles_Kitty_Cat - 58 days 1 hour ago
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GOTY confirmed.
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BigKev45 - 58 days 1 hour ago
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Stop hating, Ubiquitious. Grads to IW!
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NaiNaiNai - 58 days 1 hour ago
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Some of you sound like attention needy teens.

I hope you know this.

You know whats funny.

XD you all trusted VGcharts when they posted good numbers for ps3 stuff.

How hypocritical.
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DaTruth - 58 days 1 hour ago
1.28 - @TehWarranty
As soon as I read your comment I thought to myself; "Wonder if BMW69 will show his face to dispute!"

I'm glad you guys made a blatant mistake in article form on N4G, so there is no way to fix it later... like usual!

@NaiNai: Saying that over and over again doesn't make it true! Everyone of those threads is full of PS3 owners disputing the legitimacy of VGChartz, with BMW69 and his four other accounts, running to the defense!. The term "ALL", does not apply!

@Stanlee: Your facts are stupidly wrong! That is how they disagree! Ever heard of "Computers","ba rcodes" or "teh digital age"!
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slayorofgods - 58 days 1 hour ago
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Well if this is the best of the best, I think I'm officially burnt out on fps. It seems to me that cod4 and halo3 were the peek of the genre. Now these games seem like more of the same to me as they are released. I don't know if any more innovation can come from the genre, I'm not going to be re-purchase rehashed material that has all been done before.
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Alvadr - 58 days 1 hour ago
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Im waiting for my £26 sainsburys copy to arrive in. Need something quick to play before Assassins Creed comes out. Im not going to complain at a 5 hour campaign for 26 bananas.

I just got my platinum in Uncharted 2 Wooop!! Im well done with that for a while seen as I dont play much multi.

Im saving Dragon age for over Xmas. Or maybe Borderlands.. Still have Halo ODST and GTA Epsiodes to play aswell.. Ahhhh gaming overload!
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DaTruth - 58 days ago
1.31 - Wanna hear the stupidest fanboy thing of all???
The same people that believe Sony can't track its own products(console) sold through to consumers... Somehow believe VGChartz can track every single game, console, peripheral for all the companies across the entire world sold through to consumers!

DO YOU SEE HOW STUPID YOU GUYS SOUND!!!!! Seriously! NO SERIOUSLY!!!
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mint royale - 58 days ago
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@da truth

Calm down man! How actually believes Vgchartz can do that? No one. People that defend it defend saying they are **estimates**. You know, numbers that have a leeway and can be adjusted if more accurate numbers come out.

That is all. There is no need to twist logic.
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Saaking - 57 days 23 hours ago
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holy F$ck! 7 million!!? Damn that's just mind blowing. I don't think it's that high. Maybe 5 million.
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Jake1111 - 57 days 22 hours ago
1.34 - Ok.. I purchased but...
This is my last COD purchase... I played it for about an hour and I am back on demons souls.....

The game is pretty much the same as COD4.... This is NOT progress.... I am through with this crap...

Onto demons souls, then going to play hard UC2...

PS3... RULES!!!
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sikbeta - 57 days 22 hours ago
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Why all of you expect, the more hyped game in the entire year
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SUP3R - 57 days 21 hours ago
1.36 - lol
From the comments you'd swear this was an Xbox 360 exclusive. lol
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vhero - 57 days 14 hours ago
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your wrong about 360 owners since most 360 owners will have pirated the game. I agree though about trade ins in fact there was already 1 on the trade in shelf in my local GAME!
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vhero - 57 days 14 hours ago
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Also its gonna sell in those kind of numbers when you can buy a crap load of copys from a supermarket at £25 and sell on ebay for £40 or trade in for £35. I bet you at least 30% of the buyers for this game bought the game to sell it on rather than play it.
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AAACE5 - 57 days 12 hours ago
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Some people are out of their f'in mind! The multiplayer maps are some of the best I have ever played! The graphics are beautiful. One map in particular (Afghan) looks on par with some of the Ps3 exclusive games. If you are worried about the auto target thing, it does not show up in the multiplayer, or at least it didn't for me. If you miss out on this, you are truely not a gamer! To me, it seems like IW set this game up to go against all competitors. You even have 3rd person multiplayer modes to compete with the Socom crowd. The maps are large and have multiple routes and hiding spots. I know some of the stuff people have heard makes them thinks this will be a noob fest like Halo, but trust me you're wrong. This game will be popular for a long time!

Hell, I haven't even got to play the spec-ops mode yet and i'm hooked. So in so many words, don't waste your time hating this game because there is alot of fun to be had here!

@Vhero... Half full?... Pirates?

People on my friends list are ranked in the 2.5 million area and they are pretty good and have been playing since day one, so I think it's fair to say that at least 3 million people are playing.

Keep your fanboy zipped up, nobody wants to see it you perv!
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solidt12 - 57 days 8 hours ago
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VGChartz can't even get total PS3 Sales Right even after Sony Announced it was 27 million a month ago. They Still have it listed as 26 million when it is probably closer to 28 million now. They even had a post in there forums and still got it wrong http://www.vgchartz.com/for...
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bmw69 - 57 days 7 hours ago
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That is 27 million shipped to stores, VGChartz counts the number sold to consumers. It's really not that hard?
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Ashriel - 57 days 6 hours ago
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@SHAGGY62

yeah, MAG and BFBC2 are totally innovative games :P
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Why o why - 58 days 3 hours ago
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vg chartz
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DaTruth - 58 days 1 hour ago
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Nuff said!
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belal - 58 days 3 hours ago
3 - WOW
thats carzy man!!!!

but the game is awesome and when the online is fixed soon. the game will rule!
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BigKev45 - 58 days 1 hour ago
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It does run. Only on the 360.
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vhero - 57 days 14 hours ago
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runs fine on 360 as the servers are only half full though as half the 360 pirates got banned. If they never got banned it would be a differnt story.
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raztad - 58 days 3 hours ago
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7 millions sounds like an awful lot. Too much hype for this game.
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Noctis Aftermath - 58 days 2 hours ago
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Sounds like BS to me, it's the same site that claimed 2mil ODST day 1 sales.
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