In addition, a $60 video game is way more expensive than a movie ticket.ĭespite those factors, there’s no denying MW’s impressive launch or sales.
There are also a lot of popular non-premium games, such as Fortnite and Apex Legends. Games are moving more into the digital realm, which means players are purchasing fewer physical copies, so digital sales records aren’t the entire story. Granted, these are press release statistics. This places Modern Warfare’s opening sales at possibly the fifth-best of all time.Ĭompared to cinema, MW’s opening launch more than doubled the box office opening of Joker, the most profitable comic book movie ever. In addition to those impressive numbers, the only other video games to top $600 million in sales in the first three days were Red Dead Redemption II ($725 million) and Grand Theft Auto V ($1 billion). More total hours played and total players than any CoD in six years.