Do you know how I know Call of Duty is the biggest franchise in the entertainment world? When I end up at holiday parties and tell people what I do, it's usually the first game to come up. "So, you play COD?" they ask. I try to tell them that there are other games out there, but no one ever believes me. When talk moves to Christmas lists and the like, Call of Duty and iPads are all I ever hear about. I tell them to "trust me" and get the kids Battlefield 3 and a Kindle Fire instead. Then I giggle as I sneak out.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 continues to break entertainment industry records. Yes, it goes way beyond videogames these days. The title sold 6.5 million copies in just a day, and raked in $775 million in less than a week.
EA's Peter Moore, boss of the house that makes COD's biggest competitor, Battlefield, has been keeping a close eye on sales figures. He says that Activison's latest has already hit 10 million sold, according to IndustryGamers. And Battlefield 3 is hanging in there with about 8 million.
Industry analysts say that COD3 will hit 25 million. I'll use that factoid at the next holiday party.
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9:40 AM on 12.07.2011 | 
That's chump change.
I'd recommend that you look into a Nook Tablet as well before you make your decision. I got one a couple of weeks ago and absolutely adore it. It's a more open platform (works with any epub or pdf you want to put on it) and it's more powerful.
Downside is that, of the 10gb of storage it advertises, only 1gb of that is available for user content. The rest is reserved for content downloaded from barnesandnoble.com unless you go to a BN store and get the device reformatted, which is just silly. Still, it has an SD card slot so that's more or less a non-issue as far as I'm concerned.
ORLY? I could say the same about u bud :P
Both those statements are true.
... I loved Homefront... when I could get into a game and playing with friends was near impossible.
... the beta for BF3 was crap... and they still have the 4 player squad restriction, bad PS3 voice chat and other issues.
... Brink... unbalanced.
So many good ideas for games, but if devs make it hard to play the game, then it just won't catch on. I do wish that Dice had waited and released BF3 when it was actually done... rather than the beta version. :(
Oh... and the kindle fire tethers you to Amazon worse than the Ipad tethers you to Apple. Still, for the price, it's a nice little tablet. (The Blackberry Playbook is also on sale and priced the same as the Fire... and it's a pretty good deal if you have a blackberry phone or don't mind waiting for the February update for the email client and Android apps that will apparently be useable on the Playbook). Still... it's nice to see some lower priced options for tablets in the marketplace right now.
I never knew that even existed! It has some nice specs for sure and expandable memory, looks sick!
I read a CRAP ton of reviews for Kobo touch, Kobo Vox and Kindle touch and I actually ended up buying a Blackberry Playbook because the 16gb was on sale for $199 (I got the 32gb). This will be a Xmas gift for the fiance as she wanted the Kobo Vox but the reviews for it were absolutely horrible as an eReader and tablet it sounded like a complete waste of money as it half-assed everything. That and it is a single core device..
Oh yeah, CoD3, don't have that game yet :P
Bud Urs was simplyput best Comment on this site since I joined COWT fo sure NUFF SAYD
Buy Kindle Fire. Install CyanogenMod 7.
Done. Powerful tablet with a rooted OS.
Shuck it, Trebe- I mean, Apple.
*looks down the barren street*
*thinks to himself* thought EA proclaimed bf3 was going to be the landmark game and series to dethrone this crowned game..
Laugh.. Stupid EA
Seriously though.. Congrats Activision I suppose, I truly miss IW in its original state only because their ideas shaped fps games in MW 1.
I really hope you come out with something new.. I don't mean mw4 with new kill / support streak rewards.. I mean an actual facelift and new idea in fps gaming.. Can't leave that to the competition because lets face it EA f'n blows at making games
That being said it's probably fair to say to stay away from MW3 since it's been the same garbage since MW2 (Cod 4 was good and you all know it) but B3 just aint battlefield no more. It's trying so hard to be call of duty it's rediculous and Dice essentially sold their soul to make it that way which is a shame because B2 and to a lesser extent Bad company 2 were/are really good games.
Not saying B3 is the worst game in the world but if you're going to play a game that tries so hard to be Cod with level design and single player (a total rip off of Black Ops so far) why not just get Cod?
I will agree with you on your single player comparison of BF3 to CoD3; however, level design and multiplayer are not even close to being the same. Map size, vehicles, destruction, killstreaks, recoil...both games differ vastly in those areas alone and
You also buy both of those games for their online offerings, not their single player.
It's good to see someone looking out for the "little guy" that is EA.