Sony today confirmed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has recorded the franchise's biggest-ever game release on the PS Store, accumulating more pre-orders and day-one sales than any other entry in history. Of course, this is to be expected to a degree as the industry continues to shift more and more towards digital distribution, but it still makes for pretty impressive reading. The fact just 70MB of data was contained on physical Modern Warfare 2 discs probably didn't help either.
Without sharing any sales numbers, Sony tweeted: "Congratulations to Infinity Ward and Activision on the biggest PlayStation Store launch EVER for a Call of Duty game (including preorders and day one sales)."
Sales of boxed copies in the UK are also leaning towards PS5, PS4 as 71 per cent of purchases are for the PlayStation versions during its launch week. We're still evaluating the game before publishing a full Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 PS5 review, but our impressions are very positive so far.
[source twitter.com]
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I'm only ever interested in the campaign element of Call of Duty, and having completed one run-through of MW2 thus far, I can honestly say, I think it to be possibly the best campaign they have ever done. For me, the mission Alone was the standout, but there were many superb missions. Highly recommend it...
@Fiendish-Beaver same with me-loved the campaign👍🏻
Very impressive statistics!
No wonder Sony doesn't like this ABK deal with Microsoft, you can see why.
@Neonix Same here mate. i93200K with a 3090FTW3 Ultra 64 meg etc etc, played through a 48 inch oled C1, but I prefer to sit on the sofa with a pad too
Have not been able to play local offline multi-player. When I select it, it says installing and stays stuck on that screen.
I enjoyed the campaign, but gje multi-player is why I want ro stay long term. Hope the issue is fixed soon.
@Neonix @Titntin You 2 need to create better setups. I am personally lying on a bed while using the PC and it's an amazing experience.
Looks great but still think I'll wait till its on gamespass 👍
@PCGamerInDisguise lol, I need to be able to create real work with mine and I'm pretty happy with it where it is for now. I have two ps5's and a series X for entertainment and I don't feel I'm missing out on anything, except 60hz in Plague tale and I like to play FH5 on pc @120hz too as I find it janky on series X
Sounds like you have yours exactly where you need it to be - enjoy!
@Titntin I am a web developer working from home and I can web develop stuff while lying comfortably in bed
@PCGamerInDisguise That's pretty sweet! I used to do games dev, but I wouldn't be able to do that in bed..... I envy you
The BETA was the best ever, but the full game release brings its own problems. It’s a brilliant COD, but lots of things need sorting before we can say it’s the greatest COD ever and even then we probably won’t be saying that.
A Plague Tale Requiem already out of the top ten? 😭😭😭. You people don't deserve video games.
Jokes aside. I hope it was and will be successful enough for Asobo Studio to consider a new one in the future.
Sounds like the Single player story is worth playing. Maybe a bit down the line as a rental.
@Neonix I was trying to say that I created a setup that allowed to comfortably use my PC for work and gaming without drilling through walls and buying 20-30 meters of HDMI 2.1 cabling.
@JAMes-BroWWWn I also hope that despite some of the deserved criticism the game still sells well.
Though with it releasing inbetween fifa and cod both of which have got their franchise's biggest ever launch it doesn't look promising, nor does it look that way for the gaming landscape.....
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