MW2 to be best-selling game of all time News

More than World of Warcraft?

Good luck.

Dick! It will never sell better than Wii Fit, Tetris or even CoD4. CoD has become a milk cow, and while a lot of people will buy it, a lot of people will not buy due to the massive amount of good FPS recently.

I'm getting sick of FPS's! Start spending the big bucks on something different already!

Make the single player last more than 4-5 hours on normal difficulty and make the multiplayer good, something to rival the feel of being in a war (like Killzone 2) and the fun of Counter-Strike: Source or even Bad Company. Allow mouse & keyboard for PS3 owners (similar to UT3).

Activision = the new EA.

- Cocky
- Pompous
- No justification for being either

"CoD has become a milk cow, and while a lot of people will buy it, a lot of people will not buy due to the massive amount of good FPS recently."

Weren't people saying this right before CoD4?

I saw this and thought "Mechwarrior 2... are they reviving it in a modern engine?".

Then I was disappointed :(

i love hyperbole on a friday

Just some early and silly news to make some buzz about the game when there's nothing to say about it.
I can picture the guys at activision;
'hey guys it's time we promote tha game, what do we have?'
'huh... nothing, really'.
'OK that will do, Just say anything stupid that will make people talk/laugh/cry/argue...etc'.

Bitch with a suit.

What is the best selling single title (that was not bundles with a Nintendo console or other controller)?

As long as he dose not say what game that is supposed to be and how many millions he wants to sell, I don't see that going anywhere credible.

But just two numbers to consider:

New Mario DS = 18 Million Units
Brain Age = 17 Million Units (only the first one!!)
Gran Turismo 3 = 15 Million

CoD maybe has sold half of any of those games, so good luck there.

I don't understand, if some ppl want to play with a m+k why not buy it for the PC? I don't want my living room system to become a PC.
Anyway, just a rant, they can make it m+k enable on the PS3, I just realised I have a 360...

My first thought on reading the headline was MW2 - Mario World 2 is the best selling game of all time and thats a pretty nice thing about a competitor.

Whereas COD nah mate, no chance.

Cheeseboxer....

Make the single player last more than 4-5 hours on normal difficulty and make the multiplayer good,

1) Play it on the hardest setting rather than normal, that will somewhat double the time.
2) the multiplayer is good.

@ miiiguel

My PC is for UT2004 and CS:S (all Valve games), mainly for enormous amount of custom mod/map support. The COD games lack greatly in those areas so I wouldn't mind playing it on a console as I wouldn't be missing much, but that's just me.

Regardless, it will sell truck-, plain,-boatloads.

"entertainment propositions"

i do so hate corporate bullshit

@ DoctorZoidberg

I found the multiplayer of COD4 very boring. I can't explain it exactly, I just didn't get what all the fuss was about after spending so many years playing CS:S (and Condition Zero before that). Personally I would prefer to play MGO rather than COD4. It's the only game I have regretted buying on the PS3.

Highly unlikely

Biggest selling game of all time is Sims 2 100 million copies

Activision chat shit and should shout the fuck up!

Allow IW to make a decent game and be happy that people want to lay their money down in this recession

If they continue to milk the franchise it will die

COD series was better when it was just a PC title to be honest and console gamers got short changed with shitty versions done by shitty studios.

But now they have got greedy on the success of MW and World at Wank by Treyarch

Who the fuck went out and bought that game?

You know something is wrong when a game mode that is unlocked at the end of the game is better than whole title

I've never been one to jump on the "slow news day" bandwagon but, come on!

It's not like anyone with a pulse would ever go into a sales meeting and say "We want our new game to be the lowest or most mediocre selling game of all time" now is it. It's not news. This article is just what every games developer this side of the sun (yes even indies in one man teams) would say.

I look forward to the day when Infinity Ward get away from Activision, they're surely big enough now for something like that to be on the cards.

i do so hate corporate bullshit

Aye, speak plain English motherfuckers!

But I genuinely do so hope that they manage to succesfully leverage the CoD brand to deliver an experience that will be a paradigm shift on the next-gen interactive entertainment platforms and consequentally move a whole wagonload of SKUs.

I don't know, if they bring in something new to usual FPS mix-up, as they did with perks in CoD4, then who knows.

And perhaps they are going down a MMO FPS route? I wouldn't put it past them. They've seen that hundreds of thousands of people are still playing CoD4 and are thinking "we could charge them £7.99 a month for the next one."

I think some people here are underestimating Call of Duty's financial success. Modern Warfare certainly sold enough to compete with the big names of the home console world.

The numbers are always hard to get a hold of and hard to judge, since companies spin them in the best way for them, there are never reliable sources that can measure sales in the entire world and so on. World of Warcraft, for instance, probably didn't sell as many games as they have subscribers, since in the very large Asian market a lot of people use internet cafes to play and use the cafe's copies. For the Sims, a favorite habit of EA was to add the sales of the original with those of the expansion packs and those of the various pack deals (original + some packs), to the point where they probably don't know what it really sold themselves (they just know it was a lot :P).

Myst was advertised for a long time as the best selling game of all time, and I think counted the games bundled with video cards. One Mario game that I don't remember the name of was bundled with the console, same as Wii Fit, so also boasted an amazing number (33 millions, IIRC).

You also don't know how many copies were sold after the game dropped in price, which are still copies of the game, but made less money. Mind you, in terms of 'made money' World of Warcraft certainly beats Cod & friends because of the subscription fees. And the DS/Wii games cost less to develop.

So many variables, it makes my head spin.

Aaaaanyway. Modern Warfare. Definitely a very big seller, on the same level with last gen's GTAs, bigger than Halo 3 (as a result of being multiformat), probably not as big as some of the best selling DS games, since those made insane numbers.

Number 2 could be the best selling game ever, definitely, though I don't think it's that likely.

I also find it strange that they say it will be released on November 10, yet all that they have to show for it is a teaser trailer with a dark screen and some mumbling dialogues. The marketing push in the next months will have to be serious (and they need a better demo than the first Modern Warfare had).

They could remove the perks...that would be new.

"COD series was better when it was just a PC title to be honest and console gamers got short changed with shitty versions done by shitty studios. "

..except CoD4 and the WW2 reskin are quite brilliant in multiplayer, even besting Halo (when combined at least) and above any other competition by a very, very large margin.Online playtime for these titles is huge.

Console gamers did not get short changed with CoD4, they got gifted a gem of a game.

Personally i think he might be right.

"Allow mouse & keyboard for PS3 owners"

Why? If you want to play with a mouse and keyboard, buy a PC. Consoles use controllers. There's no need for keyboard-mouse support.

I think he might be right to..
COD4 has sold tankerloads on each console and PC...
I don't know anyone who hasn't got it on at least one format.

You could at least have put COD into the headline there. I got all excited thinking they were doing a Mechwarrior 2 remake. :(

how i dream of a world where corporate executives would just talk in plain english

Suprised we haven't seen more of the MechWarrior franchise. It was probably the best Giant Robot franchise and MS have been trying to push into a market which has a thing for giant robots.

Very, VERY unlikely that this will be the best-selling game ever, especially after the name change.

Super Mario Bros. 3 sold over 40 million copies. COD5 sold, what, 12?

im rather looking forward to this - played cod4 to death on 360 and then got it to play with me clan m8's on pc - got waw too but it didnt have the magic, to many dodgy design choices that IW wouldnt have made that trey did let it down.

i hate when these guys assume stuff though, unless they have blown there minds with what IW has came up with in secret this time and are getting smug about it.

show us the damn game we need info!!!!!! do it - DO IT!!!!

@ DrRobotnik

Some people like to use m/kb and not everyone has /can afford a PC capable of running games at a decent resolution (I've been waiting for a CPU which is worth my money which breaks the 3GHz barrier. Intel finally got their arse into gear and will be launching it at the end of May \o/).

The PS3 supports m/kb, so why not allow it. It may even widen their audience. UT3 does and there is a filter option so controller only players can block out servers with m/kb support if they want.

Well I won't buy it until it's cheap. CoD4 is horribly overrated, even when it's good.

Which, given CoD4's precedence, won't be for a while.

/grumpy

lol there is no chance cod6 will be the best selling game of all time, none at all. do these people even realise the sort of numbers they would be up against?

"Allow mouse & keyboard for PS3 owners"

Why? If you want to play with a mouse and keyboard, buy a PC. Consoles use controllers. There's no need for keyboard-mouse support.

Why not? It's all about choice. I hate sofa-gaming. A console I can plug into my monitor and use with m/kb, next to a PC, would be nice. Would also mean they could widen the game variety on consoles.

Heh, I thought this was Mechwarrior as well.

Pity that Microsoft have given up making games, huh?

I think these guys own the property now, so let's hope they do something awesome with it:

http://www.smithandtinker.com/

1) Play it on the hardest setting rather than normal, that will somewhat double the time.
2) the multiplayer is good

Exactly. Real gamers play on veteran. The game easiely lasts 10 hours+. The multiplayer in COD4 has proven to be very good since its still one of the most played games on LIVE.

Just make the game as good as COD4. I know you will IW.

Make Martyrdom set off a nuclear device that kills everyone in the level! Make Juggernaut a "god mode"! (unless someone martyrdoms, then you are joint winners of the match) And don't forget the attack dogs, they were great!

Shake up the MP! What was good in CoD4 is now old and boring in WaW. Start by nicking KZ2's all game types in one match approach, as an option.

Wellsy you fool !

Real gamers play on veteran.

So I play games for about 20 hours a week but I'm not a real gamer.

What I do have though, is a real life so I don't have time to spend on epic games - thank f**k I'm not a real gamer.

@oerhört
Wikipedia says Super Mario Bros 3 sold 17.2 millions. It's the first Super Mario Bros that reached 40 millions, but it was bundled with the console, which places it in a different category. In that category, Nintendio kind of beats everyone, since they usually have a game included with their consoles (usually system sellers - SMB, Tetris, Wii Sports). In that direction, the only competition is probably Solitaire, which must be the best selling game ever by an amazing margin (but I don't know any stat).

What's strange is the Rockstar said that one of the 3D GTA, I can't remember which one, was the best selling game ever, with 13 millions or so, even though it's much newer than SMB 3, so they would have know what they would be comparing against. They kind of lied, I guess. Or they simply used more conditions than they said. Like "best selling game ever, if by 'ever' you mean the current console generation".

@Destria
I saw this and thought "Mechwarrior 2... are they reviving it in a modern engine?".

Then I was disappointed :(

Me too. :(

"I love Infinity wards games, but please get rid of the respawning enemies."

Y'see. I detested the SP of CoD 4 for that very reason alone. Triggered spawning was the single most vile thing about it and the way it was done made it feel more like a game of if I step here you appear there from start to finish.

Good thing the multiplayer kicked rock solid ass then.

As for MW2 becoming the best selling game of all time, puleeeeeeeeease. Would serve them right if it sold just a portion of what the original did and they'd think twice about sucking their own c*cks long before their games even see a release.

marilena: I stand corrected. Jumbled those numbers together, I did.

Nevertheless, it's unlikely MW2 will beat it. :)

It's going to beat The Sims 2, Myst and WoW?

XD

ridiculous ambition... it wont even get near thouse numbers.

"No Fighting in the War Room" on Veteran is so freakin intense, awesome level. Once you beat it.