Latest Call of Duty dominates 2009 global charts despite mid November release
As part of its all-encompassing detailed report on the global video game market in 2009, GfK-ChartTrack has confirmed that Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold nearly 12m units worldwide last year.
More precisely, the game’s total sales now stand at 11.86m units – or at least, they did come the end of 2009. Total sales could conceivably be far in excess of this by now.
Looking at the sales region-by-region, the USA emerged with the keenest appetite for the shooter, snapping up 8.82m copies. The UK was next up with total sales of 2.8m while Japanese sales hit 238k.
Other star performers on the global stage included Wii Sports Resort (7.57m), New Super Mario Bros (7.41m), Wii Fit Plus (5.80m) and Wii Fit (5.44m).
Click here to read ChartTrack’s report in full.
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PS3, 360
When i look at the leaderboards on the PS3 my second account, which i have only played 10 seconds of 1 match, is ranked at 7.3 million and on my mates 360 there seems to be about 9 million so thats a estimated total of 16 million in under 3 months on consoles alone, that is just incredible.
Inaccurate article
Going by your article, MW2 sold zero units in France, zero units in Germany, Italy, Norway,Sweden, Spain and the rest of Europe, and zero units in Canada(10% of th US market), sia and South America as well.
In reality, MW2 sold far more than 12 million in 2009.
Given that the UK market is about 1/3 the European market, if MW2 sold 2.8 million units in the UK, then it would have sold at least another 4.2 million units in the rest of Europe.
Add in approx 900K units sold in Canada, plus 1 million in the rest of the world, including Australia, Asia outside Japan, mexico and South America and you have approx 18 million MW2 usints sold in 2009.
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