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R129,58 billion over a 12 year stretch... Not bad for a video game franchise

 

15 March, 2015

Martin Barwise 

 

 

The  Call  of  Duty  video game series is a popular first person shooter franchise that stretches

over 12  years  in  existence from  2003. In their  12  years of existence they have managed to

become one of the most  successful  video  game  franchises  in  history, selling  over  tens  of

millions of copies around the world for every  new  video game produced since Call  of  Duty 4:

Modern Warfare. The publishers of this successful video game franchise  announced  that  the

franchise has earned over R129,58 billion worldwide. These figures makes Call of  Duty  a  far

bigger entertainment franchise than  box  office  hits  like 'The  Hunger Games,  Transformers,

Ironman and The Avengers'. Even if these box office franchises combine their total ticket sales

to date, it  would still fall short of Call  of  Duty's R129,58 billion in global  sales. The publishers

had  no issues in revealing their sales data, stating that one of  their  block  buster games, Call

of Duty: Black Ops II, crossed  R5,89  billion  in  only  its  first  day  of  sales, while Call of  Duty:

Modern Warfare  III managed to pull off R4.712 billion in itsfirst 24 hours of sales.