Black Ops to sell over 10m units in US

[wraggster]

Although not due for release until November 9, Activision and Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops is generating enough interest to sell over 10.7 million units in its first year on sale in the US, according to Cowan & Company.

The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game is already in the top ten pre-order charts at Amazon.com and GameStop.com, with analyst Doug Creutz suggesting that the high-profile departure of talent from Activision hasn't harmed the Call of Duty brand.

"This is a very impressive display of strength and we believe the title is headed for a better comparison versus last year’s Modern Warfare 2 than we had originally assumed," said Creutz. "We are increasing our estimate for the franchise from a -29 per cent year on year unit decline to a -17 per cent year on year decline.

"We believe our revised estimate could still prove conservative, and note that a strong performance by the Treyarch-developed Black Ops would help combat the notion that the departure of key Infinity Ward talent could permanently impair the Call of Duty franchise."

It's not all good news for Activision, however, with the Cowan & Company underwhelmed by the success of the recently released racer from Bizarre Creations, Blur.

"Based on extremely weak initial checks, we now expect Blur to sell less than 1 million units worldwide in its first year," said Creutz. "Although the title achieved a decent 82 Metacritic rating, its launch one week after Disney’s entrant in the racing genre, Split/Second, appears exceptionally ill-timed."
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...0m-units-in-us

[John Vattic]

seeing as its consumer based now, video game industry no longer needs to make art, but controversial crap to sell more units.

I miss when a company made a game to make a good work of art, with sales at the farthest from the mind.

Now it's shock and awe, to use a bushism.

To put it simply black operations are also known by regular citizens as terrorist attacks. And black operations, usually psychological in nature, always have what the nsa calls blowback. Meaning this kind of covert crap generates more terrorists, which i'm sure MI5 and CIA would just love to hire for government work.

May your governments enslave you and force you at gunpoint to buy their propaganda:thumbup: