Call of Duty 4 reaches 13 million players on Xbox Live
by Griffin McElroy 
on May 26th 2009 12:40PM
With the release of the recent
full-length trailer for Modern Warfare 2, the gaming populous' attention has been turned away from the original
Modern Warfare (considering the game's getting a follow-up, we think its
Modern-ness could be disputed by this point, but we digress). However, Infinity Ward community commissar Robert Bowling (a.k.a. fourzerotwo) recently stopped by Major Nelson's podcast to explain why
CoD4 shouldn't be ignored quite yet -- it just
hit the remarkable 13 million player mark on Xbox Live.
This number is impressive for two reasons: First, it's two million more players than the last Xbox Live total
we heard for Modern Warfare back in March. The second reason has been mentioned by a few gaming blogs already -- it's surpassed the total number of
World of Warcraft players. Impressive? Well, yes -- though nobody is forced to subscribe to
Call of Duty 4. As far as pure, lucrative retention is concerned, we think
WoW still takes the cake.
