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COD4 hits 9M milestone

Activision and Infinity Ward's modern-day first-person shooter hits sales landmark; Variety Map Pack breaks XBLA record with 1M downloads in 9 days.

From the get-go, Activision's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was a certifiable hit. Its PC performance notwithstanding, the Infinity Ward-developed modern-warfare shooter debuted with more than 2 million units sold across the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in its first month last November. Though having been available for only two months, the title also managed to take the 2007 sales crown, with Activision saying in January that COD4 had sold 7 million units worldwide by year's end.

Proving to have legs beyond 2007, COD4 landed the top slot in the NPD Group's monthly sales dump for January and February, though it was ousted in March by Super Smash Bros. Brawl's staggering 2.7 million-unit debut. Even so, March's NPD report did signify a significant milestone for Activision and Infinity Ward. According to a post by Infinity Ward director of communications Robert Bowling on the game's official blog, COD4 has officially sold more than 9 million units worldwide since launch.

With the Call of Duty 4: Game of the Year Edition out two weeks ago, Bowling also noted that the Variety Map Pack has set an Xbox Live Marketplace record of logging more than 1 million downloads in its first nine days. The four-map pack came as a free download with COD4: GOTYE, and those who already owned the Xbox 360 version of the game could purchase the add-on over Xbox Live for 800 Microsoft points ($10). The Variety Map Pack will be available on the PlayStation Network next week.

For a more in-depth look at Infinity Ward's record-setting Variety Map Pack, check out GameSpot's recent hands-on with the download.

155 Comments

  • J-Rob987987

    Posted May 11, 2008 9:32 pm GMT

    no cuz if u search cod5 it says modern day first shooter, so it will be another modern

  • TheCandyman16

    Posted May 4, 2008 7:00 pm GMT

    thats awesome, its too bad that the cod series is supposedly going back to WWII, this modern warfare stuff is so much better.

  • OliverG94

    Posted Apr 25, 2008 8:11 pm GMT

    Cool i'm gonna get the maps for sure. 1m in 9 days thats outstanding!

  • atom2000

    Posted Apr 23, 2008 4:14 pm GMT

    Yes!
    I'm just happy that a game as good as COD4 is getting what it deserves.

  • sesquipedalian4

    Posted Apr 23, 2008 7:28 am GMT

    Haven't played the Cod series since the first one, but picked up Cod 4 and it is great. Refreshing the series away from WWII.

  • mbchfdh2

    Posted Apr 23, 2008 6:55 am GMT

    To hear you lot peck at each other, you'd think you'd programmed COD4 and Halo 3 yourselves...

    ... but then, if you had done, you probably wouldn't be wasting your time cat-fighting on a message board about things that don't matter. You'd be going to work, or drinking beer, or getting laid, or doing some of the other things that grown-ups like to do. Which reminds me... I have to go.

    I might add; if any of you engaged in this petty debate *are* adults, I am genuinely embarrassed for you. I mean, did no-one ever teach you how to disagree with someone politely...?

  • legs1986

    Posted Apr 22, 2008 8:20 pm GMT

    Call of Duty 4 can be beaten in as little as six hours and doesn't offer a lot of replay value. However, if you play Halo 3 on Legendary difficult, the game doesn't just get more difficult because the enemies are tougher, it gets looooonger, because of the incredible artificial intelligence of the enemies in the game. Plus, the replay value in Halo 3 is incredible, because of all the Skulls that need to be found and can change the gameplay.

    ___________________________________________

    Well, Halo 3 can easily be beaten in 6 hours. COD4 gets significantly longer/tougher on Veteran, as with Halo 3 on Legendary... guess you missed both points there.

    9 Skulls..... 30 computers with Intel... yea, there's no hidden items in COD.

    Otherwise an ok arguement, but incorrect facts = failed. One last point, yea MS said Halo 3 had "sold" 8million units, when MS says something was "sold" they mean to a retailer, not necessarily that all of those copies have gone on from retail to consumer.

    7 million COD4 sold however is referring to out the door sales.

  • zyasun

    Posted Apr 22, 2008 8:39 am GMT

    *ROFL!!! at SalarianChemist* if i wanted sci fi shooter ill stick too unreal tournament
    cod4 is a good game not the best. i just hate nade spammers!

  • squizur

    Posted Apr 22, 2008 5:56 am GMT

    Lol, it this SalarianChemist guy for real? Dude, HALO3 is just a hype, get over it!

  • SalarianChemist

    Posted Apr 22, 2008 5:30 am GMT

    Microsoft announced that Halo 3 had sold over 8 Million copies of Halo 3, very close to the time that Activision announced Call of Duty 4 had sold 7 Million copies.

    No doubt about it, Halo 3 was the "Sales Champion" of 2007.

    And the only thing in the world that is more important than "Sales" is "Money."

    Halo 3 still holds the record in the Guiness Book of World Records for the most money generated in the videogame industry. No other game comes close.

    In terms of which game is better, both Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 received virtually identical reviews, because there were so many scores of 10 out of 10, 9.75 out of 10, 9.5 out of 10, ect...

    But one thing is clear, Halo 3 is a much broader game than Call of Duty 4.

    Halo 3 includes a 4-player Co-Op mode, whereas Call of Duty 4 doesn't offer any form of Co-Op mode at all.

    Call of Duty 4 can be beaten in as little as six hours and doesn't offer a lot of replay value. However, if you play Halo 3 on Legendary difficult, the game doesn't just get more difficult because the enemies are tougher, it gets looooonger, because of the incredible artificial intelligence of the enemies in the game. Plus, the replay value in Halo 3 is incredible, because of all the Skulls that need to be found and can change the gameplay.

    The Multi-player version of both Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 are incredible. This is the mode where the two games are most comparable in terms of quality. Halo 3 is the winner in the other two areas.

    One thing is for sure, if Microsoft would have launched Halo 3 for the PC, or if Activision would have not released Call of Duty 4 for the PC, then Halo 3 sales would be very far ahead of the Call of Duty 4, even with COD4 still being released for the PS3.

    It's pretty scary to think what the sales of Halo 3 would be like if Halo 3 would have been released for Xbox 360, PC, PS3, and Nintendo DS in the same way that Call of Duty 4 was.

    Activision clearly supports the Xbox 360 more than the Playstation 3, though. Xbox 360 received the new maps three weeks before the Playstation 3. And the maps will cost $10 on both the Xbox 360 and PS3.

  • owman

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 10:54 pm GMT

    yeah man, that game suck

  • Vlaimir_Lem86

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 10:33 pm GMT

    Increadibly deep?!?!?! COD4 is far from deep, great game, but far from deep. Try playing BF2142, now that game offers a challenge, and is much much deeper than this (try hitting 2 star Gen in less than 3 months.. practically impossible). COD4 is a great "pickup" game, kinda novice, but good.

  • prioritymail

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 8:58 pm GMT

    I love this game, increadibly deep shooter

  • BPDecPimp

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 7:54 pm GMT

    ^^^ waiting for free maps. Gas is too high.

  • Altair1337

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 7:14 pm GMT

    I don'[t know why people call Call of Duty 4 the "Halo-Killer" they are two different kinds of shooters. Halo is a sci-fi shooter. While CoD 4 is a military shooter.

  • MNRaven

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 4:04 pm GMT

    If miltary shooters are your genre thatn It just can't get much better than COD 4. The developers really got the single player and the mutliplayer right on this one.

  • ajarbuckle

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 3:32 pm GMT

    rainbow six doesn't even come close

  • Natdaddy

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 12:27 pm GMT

    All hail the halo killer.

  • 02sfraser

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 12:18 pm GMT

    amazing sales for an amazing game top stuff

  • NeoNavarro

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 11:33 am GMT

    This game is legendary. 9m thats just impressive!

  • Myzz617

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 11:15 am GMT

    True story in a few months the Warhawk updates will be free soon but if the PSN network card comes out then im going to waste some of my Salary money. Lol and its about time the COD4 mappacks come out for PS3 because i dont play it online anymore..@ level 54 there is not much to do anymore its just boring!

  • JoshChambers

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 10:37 am GMT

    PS3 users are not getting it for free. They have to pay just like everyone else.

  • JoshChambers

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 10:37 am GMT

    PS3 users are not getting it for free. They have to pay just like everyone else.

  • rgjj

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 9:53 am GMT

    every game has that one player that just cannot get a footing and spends most of the game respawning and bein a player i love those more kills for me lol

  • el_chupacabras

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 9:30 am GMT

    Meh... I don't know what the big deal is... the campaign part of the game is pretty good. But the multi-player is just horrible... "...look I just re-spawned... look... random grenade.... look I am dead again.... ***!"

  • McGregor

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 9:22 am GMT

    If PS3 players are getting this map pack for free. xbox 360 users should get it free as well. But if they are making both parties pay for it, i don't mind paying for it.

  • ScottEFresh

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 9:18 am GMT

    Halo 3 who?

  • Stryder_18

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 9:02 am GMT

    I rented it and it was O.K. I'll buy it when the price goes down in a year.....actually I probably wont, there will probably be something else out better by then.

  • rasterror

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 8:35 am GMT

    I just got the game last week, laugh at me all you want, and the game is amazing. I thought it would be hard to top CoD2 but this game always amazes me. Should have got this sooner.

  • jackle2071

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 8:31 am GMT

    I don't see what the big deal is. i have no problem giving Infinity Ward my money.

  • mbchfdh2

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 7:44 am GMT

    HLAM,

    Yeah, well said.

    I think a lot of the users who bang-on about console owners having to pay for maps are children who can't buy *anything* because they've already blown their allowance on a "funny" T-shirt. Whereas those of us with incomes don't particularly mind spending 800MS Points every now and then. It's really not a lot of money... and as HLAM says, if you don't want to pay for it, give it a few months and it'll become free.

  • HungryLikeAMug

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 6:48 am GMT

    To all hermits stating "haha you have to buy the maps!!!" - nobody cares
    to all the console players complainging about paying for maps - if everyone just had the patience to wait and not pay for new maps, they would eventually come free. how can you fault devs for charging for maps when millions of idiots buy them everytime on day one??

  • mbchfdh2

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 4:43 am GMT

    Raidis,

    I've not played COD4, but I second what you say about trash-talk. It's depressing, and it completely destroys the fun that can be had from meeting new people online. When I play Halo 3, I now routinely mute everyone in the lobby, and I never play with a headset.

  • Gruug

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 12:16 am GMT

    Let's see...you PAY for maps on the 360 but the PC mod community maps are free? Sure sounds like the PC version would be a better deal.

  • vass86

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 10:19 pm GMT

    doesn't suprise me too much. it's a great game. i'm still not paying for a couple of maps though

  • stakex007

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 9:27 pm GMT

    Tho I would love the new map pack, and am quite mad it has not been released to the only really loyal fans COD has ever had... my friends and I play new maps all the time on our server. There are a bunch of free user created maps out for the PC version (and several copies of the map pack maps in the works as mismajor said), and we just make our own... the non IW maps tend to be alot better anyway.

    Besides the point tho, IW really needs to remember that the PC gamers are the only reason there is a COD franchise at all. In the end tho, it all comes down to the all mighty dollar... they are just thinking of a way to screw the PC gamers out of $10 (which none of us will pay, since we will have the maps for free anyway). They should just do the right thing, and release the maps for free to the PC community like they would have if there was no Xbox Live. It would be a good way to say that they still appreciate the PC community.

  • Archaicstigma

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 6:38 pm GMT

    So wait the consoles are just getting new maps nao?

    -AS

  • starfoxmcleoud

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 5:44 pm GMT

    Run around, shoot someone, dodge enemy fire, repeat.....CoD4 and Halo 3 are big time fps whore games and I don't really see the appeal beyond the campaign other than run around and kill. If anything H3 is more fun with all the custom games and insane map variants. But when you get to the matchmaking, it's the same as every other shooter but with overshields. And what's with all this complaining that the extra maps are not free? People do have to take times out of their lives to create these new maps and have to be on a payroll ya know. Think you could at least help fund the developer's paychecks by buying their work?

  • mismajor99

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 5:16 pm GMT

    don't worry fellow pc peeps, the maps are being replicated by modders, so we'll have our own soon. in the meantime, enjoy the 30+ maps out right now for free. Once again, the community is taking care of itself.

  • hiimfletcher

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 5:03 pm GMT

    besides the fact that only 3 of the 4 maps (or so i've come to notice) are used in matchmaking, they are still great maps and they got me playing again

  • SmArTaLeC1321 posted Apr 20, 2008 2:32 pm GMT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    SmArTaLeC1321

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 2:32 pm GMT (hide)

    I quit CoD 4 after like 2 weeks because I got tired of it, but with Halo 3 I always come back to it.

  • Lpedraja2002

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 1:53 pm GMT

    **** are getting greedy by not releasing the map packs for the Pc.

  • Ek-Andy

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 12:14 pm GMT

    Unacceptable, I want free stuff! Still its not bad i suppose, beter value than Halo 3 map pack anyway. 3 maps, 2 of which are remakes from past titles, compared to four original maps for the same price. I may be tempted to get this, then again I may just wait until its free.

  • KaotiK_un_basic

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 12:07 pm GMT

    im glad the game sells well, they deserve it.. but 90 million for 4 maps.. that's a bit rediculous IMO. *woops, read it wrong thought it was 9 million map packs downloaded.
    still $9 million is a lot for a few extra maps.

  • Komalis

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 11:48 am GMT

    9 million copies sold + an additional map pack for $10.

    Potential $90 million extra. What company in their right mind would throw away 90 million bucks? Think people, think.

  • quickhhh

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 11:42 am GMT

    So when is the Variety Map Pack going to be free?

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