Incassi da record per Modern Warfare 2
Console tribe news - Incassi da record per Modern Warfare 2
di: Antonio "Difio" Di FinizioActivision ha annunciato in pompa magna che i guadagni portati dalla vendita di Modern Warfare 2, famosissimo FPS sviluppato da Infinity Ward, hanno raggiunto numeri da record. Sin dallo scorso novembre, mese in cui è stato lanciato il gioco, il colosso videoludico americano ha infatti guadagnato più di un miliardo di dollari.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ ? Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) announced today that Infinity Ward?s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 continues to set sell-through records crossing the $1 billion mark in retail sales worldwide since its launch in November, according to internal Activision estimates.
In its first five days alone, the game sold an estimated $550 million worldwide, outpacing five-day worldwide theatrical box office gross figures for such films as Avatar, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and The Dark Night, according to internal Activision estimates and boxofficemojo.com.
?Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has exceeded our expectations and shattered theatrical box office and video game records,? said Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard. ?There are only a handful of entertainment properties that have ever reached the $1 billion mark, which illustrates the power of the Call of Duty franchise and mass appeal of this game.?
Modern Warfare 2 is rated ?M? (Mature) by the ESRB for Blood, Drug Reference, Intense Violence and Language. For additional information about the game, visit www.modernwarfare2.com.