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‘Most eagerly-awaited game of all time’ to enjoy long tail sales

The High Street is reporting overwhelming demand for Modern Warfare 2.

HMV’s exclusive Prestige Edition, which comes with a pair of night vision goggles, sold out in weeks.

“Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is one of, if not the, most eagerly awaited games of all time,” said HMV’s head of games Tim Ellis.

“Customer expectations are very high and we are confident this will lead to record sales numbers at launch. This will comfortably be the biggest game in the series.”

Head of buying for third party at GAME and amestation, Kathryn Hinton added: “With the excitement around MW2, there comes an expectation that it’ll be the best ever in the series – and from everything we’ve seen, it’ll deliver.”

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PS3 Version is gotta be cool!

posted by Balram Sep 25, 2009 at 6:08 pm
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Balram

The PS3 Version was given extra treatment and time as the 360 had two exclusive map-packs but then later on it was told to be timed-exclusives so basically the PS3 Version is the platform to choose ultimately.

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Legit

posted by Choi Sep 26, 2009 at 6:39 am
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Awesome!! im soo ready!!
i mean im still drooling over cod4 and i just prestiged again today!!

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Really? PS3 Version Best?

posted by Zack Sep 27, 2009 at 4:36 am
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In response to Balram, they started with three seperate teams on SP, Spec Ops, and Multiplayer..In the multiplayer department, they discussed/created the map packs at the same time..Xbox 360 is getting way better treatment. Two exclusive released map packs, well, before PS3, and the Limited Edition Xbox 360?

Lol, funny that you said PS3 is getting better treatment. Microsoft is treating Infinity Ward and MW2 like a God, and Infinity Ward is doing the same back. PS3 has poor online servers and support. The only way the get people to play that crap is because it's free.

They developed both the same, except the Xbox 360 is way better suited to give the best game experience and it did in MW1 and it will again.

Xbox 360 Sales for the game will HEAVILY outweigh the PS3 sales, by far. Record numbers for the 360 and for a sales combined for a video game.

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posted by Bryce Wilson Sep 27, 2009 at 5:49 am
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@Zack:

The only servers in CoD4:MW are stat tracking ones, and leaderboards. Which takes very little processing power and bandwidth consumption.

The gameplay servers are P2P. If you are talking about the servers PSN runs off of, well that's got nothing to do with Infinity Ward and/or Activision.

Even then, unless Sony had some pathetic network infrastructure, which I highly doubt they would, PSN wouldn't be affected in the slightest.

And the reason Xbox 360 will sell more copies compared to PS3? Microsoft.

It's been a household name for years, decades even. Windows, Bill Gates, etc.

Halo and the Xbox 360/Microsoft mass marketing campaigns in the yesteryear, make the small PS3 marketing campaign look like crap. That coupled on top of the massive Xbox 360 price cuts....

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posted by Zack Sep 27, 2009 at 8:28 am
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I understand Infinity Ward/Activision have nothing to do with the server stability, etc. Xbox Live is far better compared to PS3 Online play and it gains a huge amount of players.

Both versions have the same amount of polish as well as the same amount of time developing it.

They'll both sell a lot, but to say that the PS3 version is better is completely off, as their the same game made with the same amount of time, there's no difference except the PS3 online play can't compare to Xbox live.

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