Evil publisher Activision has very little to worry about when it comes to dominating the videogame market. It has a knack for owning pretty much every genre it sets its sights on conquering, and with the last two Call of Duty games still selling a buggering flickload of copies, it's no surprise that the company expects Modern Warfare 2 to crush the competition this year.
"We have goals for all of our titles. ... We fully expect Modern Warfare 2 to be one of, if not THE largest, title in the industry this year," explains Activision's publishing CEO Mike Griffith. "When you look at when Modern Warfare 1 was launched in 2007, it had a substantial jump in consumers engaged in the Call of Duty franchise. World at War, which was launched in Holiday 2008, saw that more than a fifth of its purchasers were first time users of the Call of Duty franchise. So all those new purchasers are ready for the Modern Warfare 2 experience because they haven't historically been in the franchise."
Griffith also predicts that the amount of Modern Warfare 2 owners will be "nearly double" that of the original Modern Warfare, with the gaming being "more successful than any other Call of Duty we've launched so far."
In other words, Activision is going to make more money than you could imagine, and Bobby Kotick will be able to buy his fifteenth diamond-encrusted elephant.
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6:00 AM on 06.09.2009
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Providing they can make "better" maps, as in no under over map glitches! I'll be chuffed.
It goes without saying that any COD / MW game is a must buy, can't wait to sink some hours into this one.
If this game sells like hotcakes, I'll be happy. Quicker matchmaking is always a plus, especially since I like to play the less popular gametypes anyway.
Oh and yeah, looking forward to MW2. I wish Infinity Ward would break off from mean ol' evil Activision.
That said, I'll probably just buy this game used, several months later. I mean lets face it, it's the same old CoD. I'm not going to be missing anything, and the multiplayer we all know will still be alive and well, so nothing lost for me. $$ lost for activision.
That being said, I doubt they're going to sell twice as much as COD 4, since that (if I remember correctly) is high up there on the list of the best selling titles this decade.