05-06-2019, 09:48 AM
The Call of Duty series has sold over 300 million games
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/the-call-of-duty-series-has-sold-over-300-million-games.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p><strong>Newsbrief: </strong>Activision Blizzard says that the <em>Call of Duty</em> series has now sold over 300 million games since its start in 2003.</p>
<p>CEO Bobby Kotick shared the milestone in a call with investors this week (transcribed by <a href="https://seekingalpha.com/article/4259399-activision-blizzard-inc-atvi-ceo-robert-kotick-q1-2019-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single">SeekingAlpha</a>), saying that this makes<em> Call of Duty</em> “one of the most successful entertainment franchises of all time.” Just looking at games, its a bar not many franchises have cleared. With its 300 million lifetime sales, the <em>Call of Duty </em>series is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises">now behind</a> only <em>Pokemon</em> and <em>Mario</em> in terms of total games sold.</p>
<p>In its 15-plus years, <em>Call of Duty </em>has released close to 30 different games from a variety of developers across generations of consoles, handhelds, and mobile devices. This particular milestone comes as Activision is pushing the series’ esports scene and just ahead of the release of <em>Call of Duty </em>mobile outside of China. </p>
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<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/the-call-of-duty-series-has-sold-over-300-million-games.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p><strong>Newsbrief: </strong>Activision Blizzard says that the <em>Call of Duty</em> series has now sold over 300 million games since its start in 2003.</p>
<p>CEO Bobby Kotick shared the milestone in a call with investors this week (transcribed by <a href="https://seekingalpha.com/article/4259399-activision-blizzard-inc-atvi-ceo-robert-kotick-q1-2019-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single">SeekingAlpha</a>), saying that this makes<em> Call of Duty</em> “one of the most successful entertainment franchises of all time.” Just looking at games, its a bar not many franchises have cleared. With its 300 million lifetime sales, the <em>Call of Duty </em>series is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises">now behind</a> only <em>Pokemon</em> and <em>Mario</em> in terms of total games sold.</p>
<p>In its 15-plus years, <em>Call of Duty </em>has released close to 30 different games from a variety of developers across generations of consoles, handhelds, and mobile devices. This particular milestone comes as Activision is pushing the series’ esports scene and just ahead of the release of <em>Call of Duty </em>mobile outside of China. </p>
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