Activision: Modern Warfare 2 earned $550 million in first five days

by Justin McElroy on Nov 18th 2009 9:45AM

Activision has announced that, according to its internal estimates, Modern Warfare 2 has racked up $550 million in its first five days on the market. Considering that $310 million of that was in the game's first 24 hours, it means that it took another four days for the game to make another $240 million -- a great example of the big-bang starts enjoyed by many blockbuster games before their sales steadily decline. Still, Infinity Ward's latest managed to squeak by Grand Theft Auto 4's five-day record by $50 million.

If there were any tears to shed about that, Activision could dry them with some other impressive statistics, such as 5.2 million multiplayer hours logged and 11 million achievements unlocked on the game's first day. It could also presumably dry any tears with crisp bajillion dollar bills.

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Tags: activision, call-of-duty, call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2, fps, grand-theft-auto-iv, infinity-ward, Microsoft, modern-warfare-2, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (113)

pretty sure a couple of millions more would be there if there had been a Wii version.

o well, playing it on pc

Anyone notice how the smoke cloud in the middle of the screen shot looks like a giant long legged angel?

So we are handing Kotik the keys and letting him drive now I guess?

Just don't get upset when your games are split into multiple $100+ chunks each sporting their own plastic peripheral.

If any game is bieng milked its the FF games or the plumber games. now those games have been milked for way to long .

If the milk is good, keep on milkin'.

Yikes! Alot of Benjamins.

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Damn

Chill out dudes and dudets! Its not hard to accept that we can sometimes spend too much time playing video games. I play games A LOT, and I can admit that and feel regret about it sometimes. I know that there are a lot of people out there that feel the same way. It can be hard to balance work and gaming, and sometimes we let gaming overtake our work obligations.