Activision’s upcoming behemoth Call Of Duty: Black Ops is on track to be the biggest release ever, according to some of the biggest gaming retailers.
First up, HMV’s James Brooks said “We’re seeing some exceptional interest for this title across its different formats. Based on all this initial demand and the huge excitement that’s clearly being generated, I’d say this title has every chance of being the biggest game release ever, and it’s certainly shaping up to become the largest pre-order that we’ve seen in-store and online”.
Joining in the optimism are US retailer GameStop who have previously said “We are ahead of where we were with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 last year, which previously set the industry standard”.
Not all retailers are forthcoming with their comments though, but their pre-order charts speak volumes, over on Play.com the Xbox 360 version is top, with the PS3 version taking up second place in the chart, followed in third by the Hardened special edition. This is replicated by GAME’s pre-order chart with again Black Ops taking the two top spots.
The Call Of Duty series is, of course, no stranger to sales records, as last year’s Modern Warfare 2 took just 41 weeks to become the UK’s top selling game of all time, knocking Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training on DS off the top spot with its many years of sales. It also became the fastest selling UK game ever, achieving 1.7m sales in its first week alone, going on to sell 12m copies worldwide.
Black Ops will have it’s work cut out to top last month’s Halo Reach release which incredibly for single platform title took $200m  in the first 24 hours, to become 2010’s biggest entertainment release so far topping the opening weekends of hit movies; Ironman 2, Alice In Wonderland and Toy Story 3.
Call Of Duty: Black Ops is available worldwide on 9th November.
Source: Eurogamer.
Kennykazey
I’m not sure about this game. I recon I’ll wait till I’ve read some reviews and played it myself before I decide wether or not to get it…
Yersal
I’m not bothering with cod this time round. World at War was great, MW2 was pants then I discovered Battlefield and realised how an online fps should be
PriceKitty
Good god.
If Activision and Treyarch keep making Call of Duty games, which I doubt they will quit, they’re probably be as rich as Apple and Microsoft. o_o
I also feel sorry for the people who can only play this on the computer…you know…with all the hackers and cheaters. xD
Quinlank
Don’t doubt it’ll sell big, but I’ve seen nothing of the game that suggests it’ll be anything more than another retread of Modern Warfare much like the last one, which got very old very fast. Medal of Honuor is doing me fine for the time being, so I don’t see any reason to pay over inflated Activision prices yet again.
Saying that, if I see it for 25 quid at launch I’ll probably cave and use it later as a Christmas present to save cash, but solely for myself? At full price? No.
fattyuk
MW2 got old fast??
And you’re saying MOH is a good game after 48hours off it’s release?
LOL
Liberi Fatali
I hope not…. it’ll be embarrassing
fattyuk
Call of duty I was never interested in! All the build unto MW2…. wasn’t interested. MW2 was released… Wasn’t interested! My brother has got them all but I never played them.And then 1 day I tried playing MW2. Liked the solo campaign but werent too keen on the MP. Then it clicked and I loved it lol had to go out and buy it myself because my brother was playing his all the time. 12 months time and I still play it!
Battelfield solo was poor, medal of honour solo is poor. Both MP isn’t as quick and fast like COD so now I’m a COD fan lol
Roll on special ops!!
mind you I’m still a MAG fan but nothing actually beats COD ATM !!
SpikeyMikey23
I cant wait! :-P
Slevin
Not really bothered to get this @ launch, will probably pick this up a few months down the line.