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The Call of Duty Franchise Raises the Bar Again

Written by Barry Villatoro

You may have heard of a game that came out recently, Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 3? Oh you have heard of it, it’s just not your thing. Well I guess whether you love to destroy other players or just don’t care for it at all, there’s no denying that the franchise is an unstoppable force. The latest release in the franchise proves it by shattering records of all kinds. Including the five-day worldwide sell-through record, in which it grossed more than $775 million. The record which was previously held by Call of Duty : Black Ops. It’s also destroying numbers on XboxLive.

More than 7.0 million multiplayer hours were logged playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 by the end of launch day, November 8, a 19% increase over last year’s 5.9 million multiplayer hours logged playing Call of Duty: Black Ops last year’s launch day.

More than 3.3 million unique gamers played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day on November 8 up from 2.6 million unique gamers for Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 set a new record for concurrent players on Xbox LIVE with 3.3 million simultaneous users on November 8.

-According to Microsoft

It’s an unstoppable force. Some believed Battlefield 3 to be the immovable object and they were wrong. How long can CoD keep this momentum up?

About the author

Barry Villatoro

Twitter : @IamWeapon | Former citizen of Azeroth and Atreia | Favorite fighting game - DefJam: Fight for New York | Favorite RPG - FF6 | MMA | Sushi | ATV's |

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