The numbers are out, and it seems Activision has been churning a lot of money out of their new Call of Duty title after Modern Warfare 3 sold more than 6.5 million copies in the US and UK within its first 24 hours of availability.
We’re going to make that even more clearer for you. Within 24 hours of it’s release, there are more than 6.5 million units has been purchased. In just 24 hours and you’ll compare that with Battlefield 3, who, according to EA estimates, just put in 5 million copies in a week.
Uncharted 3 meanwhile, sold nearly 4 million of units in day one, an impressive figure for Naughty Dog’s latest.
While for Skyrim, there are no numbers out yet but according to initial estimates, it could be more than 2 million copies. We don’t believe that it would surpassing MW3′s figures anytime soon though.
Despite MW3 smashing the sales record, it has been known that the game are full of glitches. One such example can be seen here:
xjokerx
Nov 14. 2011
WOW Uncharted 3,and its an exclusive.
Liquid_Wolf
Nov 14. 2011
Skyrim reaches nearly 250,000 concurrent Steam users on day one, topples MW3
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/12/skyrim-reaches-nearly-250000-concurrent-steam-users-on-day-one-topples-mw3/
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Goes to War … With Modern Warfare 3 Sales
http://mashable.com/2011/11/11/elder-scrolls-skyrim/
MW3 will no doubt sell well, but it and Skyrim are not in the same arena. Plenty of people in my town were at both midnight releases and find both games fill different parts of their gaming lives.
Chris
Nov 15. 2011
BF3 sold 15 million copies total withn the first week.
bob
Nov 16. 2011
BF£ sold 5 million in its 1st week, 15 million would be an optimistic total sales forcast, total sales as of today are at 7.1 million to cods 14million and bf3 has been out twice as long