NOV
19
2009
News
550 million USD debut for Modern Warfare 2
Entertainment records smashed
Five-day sales of Modern Warfare 2 have topped an incredible 550 million USD, publisher Activision have revealed.
This vast debut sees the game outshining a number of other huge entertainment launches, including the worldwide gross of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (394 million USD), the five-day record set by Grand Theft Auto IV (500 million USD) not to mention a slew of one day records, to boot.
MW2's launch week has also outshone that of the best selling book, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows.
So far, players of MW2 have racked up 11 million Achievements and 2.2 million simultaneous online players, on the Xbox 360 alone.
