Do you care how much money entertainment products bring in? Hooray, rich people! Then you'll be interested to know, perhaps, that Activision has announced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 earned $1 billion in sales within 16 days. This information comes from "Charttrack and retail customer sell-through information."
You know what this means, don't you? Avatar's race to $1 billion took 17 days, so clearly this is important. So important. Videogames, everybody -- turns out quite a few of us enjoy them enough to scrounge up $60 without much hesitation.
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3:45 PM on 12.12.2011 | 
No, but they're getting closer!
We still pay 10 where we live. If it ever got that high the movie industry will collapse.
Although, now Im curious as to how the production costs compare.
Where I live tickets cost 15 bucks. It went up after Avater because 3D cost more, but after Avatar they keep the pricing.
If you made movie tickets $60 bucks, guess what, movies would make FAR less. The demand for games is higher when you can charge more and still make that kind of gross.
/end econ for idiots.
It seems like games haven't quite surpassed blockbuster movies yet, but that's really not far off.
Why do you have so many unemployed friends? :(
thanks, codbros!
the biggest i have seen selling is around 200k-300k
and that's it's LIFETIME sales.
COD makes 20x it's amount in just a few days.
god damn.
i bet if anime's make this kind of money we would see tons of japanese publishers publishing their titles themselves instead of outsourcing it to medium-ok quality like funimation.
we would truly see anime's in true HD O____O
heck compare Bakemonogatari Blu ray to any anime that funimation releases and you'll see a BIG difference in quality.
while COD single player are probably 5-6 hours. the multiplayer gives people at least hundreds of hours of entertainment.
... aw, crap.
And I'm NOT a fan of Activision, but did anybody notice how much they have contributed to the "Call of Duty endowment fund"? Kudos to them for that.
Lets all cry about it on the internet because everyone else is doing it.
Except that they shouldn't. Because they're $60. And people think it's worth it. So they should be $60. That's how things work.
Today, I sold my copy of MW3. IMO, the maps are very, very poorly designed. In the previous CoD iterations that I mentioned, the game catered to different play styles. The crap maps found on MW3 pretty much all cater to the Rambo play style. If you're style isn't to just run around like a monkey, you won't do very well. Almost nobody snipes. The medium-to-long range game is almost nonexistent.
If you like the game, then kudos to you. This long-time CoD fan, however, think that the multiplayer in this game is absolutely broken; thanks mostly to the poor map design.
Ah, well. I'll just need to buy into the Tribes: Ascend beta, I guess :)
the fact that games cost more and there are less of us actually makes it more impressive il give you a quick example
Apple, the reason apple is considered the one of the best company's in the world is not because they make the best phone or sold the most phones, iphones peaked at 37% market share that is significant but not that impressive what is really impressive is the fact people paid 600/900 $ for them that's why apple will still have better earnings that Samsung despite being outsold by Samsung
I Enjoyed MW3.
...LET THAT SINK IN.