Black Ops 2 sales down 14% on Modern Warfare 3, analysts make “hmm” noises
By Tim Colwill on December 11, 2012 at 10:21 pm
Gamesutra is reporting that Black Ops 2, the latest in Activision’s flagship franchise, is selling 14% worse than its predecessor Modern Warfare 3. In its first 15 days on sale Modern Warfare 3 pulled in 8.8 million units, while Black Ops 2 has only managed to nab 7.4 million in the same period.
The figures comprise of 4.5 million units on the Xbox 360 and 2.9 million on the PlayStation 3, but there’s no mention of PC sales, nor of those on the Nintendo Wii or the Vita versions of the game.
“We do not believe that Activision did itself any favours by putting out a press release touting that Black Ops II had crossed $1bn in just 15 days, faster than the 16 days required for Modern Warfare 3 to reach the $1bn mark,” claimed Longbow Research’s James Hardiman in a statement to MCV.
“What management did not mention is the fact that with an earlier release date, Modern Warfare 3 was able to reach $1bn a day before Thanksgiving, whereas Black Ops II was not able to get there until after Cyber Monday.”
Source: Gamasutra
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The endless one up manship of sales on all COD games has to come to an end eventually.
It it’s first 15 fays? Are they like failure days?
Had to die out eventually. But it’ll perk right up again next year I’m tipping. Next gen engine and release game for one or both of the next gen consoles.
Oh yeah, because they just *love* to use next gen stuff. Hint: They don’t.
I mean, I could buy this for $90 and have some fun with small spammy maps (am I the only person who hates nuketown?); or, I could get Planetside 2 which is free and huge and awesome…I got PS2 and I’m loving it
Black Ops 2 making a billion dollars a little later than the previous CoD is an indication of it dieing out? Wut?
Played multiplayer maybe three times? Not my style.. would pay $20 for the single player but that’s about all it’s worth to me.
QFT. The game still made a gazillion dollars. It`s not even remotely closeto dying.
vid,
Why would you spend $90 on any game these days? You know you can get it for half that price or less by purchasing it from overseas? Must be made of money… or lazy
nirvesta,
Love me my Russian steam keys. :P
Although I get the feeling it’s going to bite me in the buttocks one day.
They won’t have a choice. And I’m betting they’ve probably had this roadmap planned out for a long, long time. New consoles will be announced early next year, released during the November crazyness, with COD:MW4 as a release title on a new engine, once again gaining interest from folks that may have let the franchise slide.
Question is what engine will it be, it won’t be their own engine, COD4 and up has just been a highly modified Quake 3 engine (IdTech3… I think). Id doesn’t license their engine anymore, possibly Unreal 4? I dunno, will be interesting to see.
Just a warning, Russian keys do NOT work for Black Ops 2. Russian keys are region locked and you have to be from a Russian IP to play. You can use a VPN to log in, but you either have to play through a Russian VPN and have horrible pings or turn off the VPN which lets you play one game before it does another IP check and boots you from the server, meaning you have to log back in again. Don’t do it.
Back on topic, I think it’ll still be many more years before COD bites the bucket. It still makes far too much money for Activision to stop churning them out.
Are the masses actually wising up perhaps? surely not..
mindsnare,
Whichever CoD is released when the next gens launch will be the same tech, same engine, just with more textures squeezed in. Like a PC HD texture pack. A few weeks after exclusivity to the next gen consoles, they’ll release on PS3 and Xbox without the HD textures.
There, I’ve called it.
ooshp,
Yeah you’re probably right.
I had no plans to get Black Ops II. Don’t worry. I usually do a little research before I try the Russian key solution. Only done it with 2 Games so far.