Call of Duty: Black Ops best seller on 360, PS3, PC

@ kingtrav2 Bro you must be old as f**k if I was just a twinckle in my parents eye when online came out.

Wow I didn't know there are that many idiots in the world.

I think Activition just want to bring a challenge to EA, if it's true about the rumor than the next Battlefield is going to beat the game, then it's mean it must be a perfect game because there's no perfect game in this world even if this one is pretty close. This is an impossible job for EA but it might be fun to guess what's going on the other game

I think it will just be the funniest sh!t ever if Battle Field 3 turns out to be just the same as the recent CoDs. I also hope that these past few sub par CoD games have just been to lower our expectsations and drop the biggest FPS bomb the world will ever see after which CoD may or may not make a graceful bow off stage.

@ youngfellaslim Crysis is way better than Cod, as with many other Fps... But Cod strikes the balance perfectly when it comes to mass market appeal and thats whats key to selling crap loads of copies.. All in all Video Game Companies now answer to the big wigs on wall street in return you have less innovation but a greater chance to strike gold if you appeal more to the casual crowd.. Lets not forget game development is approaching or sometimes exceed movie size budget. So while crysis is way better, maybe for that series to sell more copies it would have to dumb down something...

@kingtrav2 That's right baby, always bet on Duke!

Truthfully in comparison of MW2 vs. BlackOPS I like MW2 better in dealing with simulation, gun and movement controls, but BlackOPS is still fun.

hehe, Diablo III targeted for release later this year. We'll see about that. All I care regarding Diablo III is to be an awesome game (Story; Feeling, Gameplay and of course Multiplayer). If it's released this year...or the next one..I don't really care as long as it's not released in the same period with Heart of the Swarm.

Crysis away better =]

Gamespot, why must you inform me of other people making incredible amounts of money?

don't know why I clicked on this... I've realized I couldn't care less about anything COD related

disappointing that such a mediocre game gets such praise, give me Bad Company 2 any day

i think we already knew black ops was the best seller. makes halo 3 launch look like a joke, but really H3 was a stepping stone in its age #Signup on SugarSync (5GB to start, up-to 105GB with referrals), way better than Dropbox...plus we both get an extra 500MB. http://goo.gl/EOc15

I really enjoyed Black Ops' Singleplayer (despite the fact it was short as hell) but it's multiplayer remains an unimaginative cesspool of mediocrity.

@s_emi_xxxxx, probably because it had horrid sales due to the fact that they focused on the console version, ignoring completely why Crysis was popular and even took steps back from an engine perspective, dumbing it down from a gameplay perspective and pissing off their fans in the process. They should add the box-art for Crysis 2 in the dictionary under 'sell-out'.

Activision = the gaming industries resident sheep herders.

Meh, don't really want to play Black Ops anyways. I'll stick to Eurocom's Goldeneye.

Massive failure like Brink? LMAO. Pretty sure you haven't even played it. The game just got released today and you're basing your opinion on half ass reviews? Black Ops is an overall fun experience. I enjoy playing it mostly with friends only. I would really love to see an update for hit detection, that is truly something that needs to be fixed. There is no excuse when I empty an entire clip of an M16 into someones dome because its the only thing showing and I get maybe two hit markers. There has also been a large amount of lobby lag this past week.

And yet some nerds still say Black Ops suck LOL. Admit it Call of Duty owns the Multiplayer FPS space. I hope Battlefield 3 can compete but we'll have to wait until its released to see this. Many games have claimed to be better like the massive failure Brink that just came out...

@kingtrav2 - the game seems to be dated. Its like playing doom2 with updated yet dated graphics

I hope to god battlefield 3 will outsell this

@GuinnessHero, "*sigh* where's the heart and soul in video gaming gone?" Excellent question mate, but as long as theres still companies such as VALVe and Bioware, theres still a glimmer of hope : )

Duke Nukem Forever is the answer for all you people tired of CoD/Halo. Always bet on Duke. Can't wait to destroy all you CoD kids in DNF and show you what real DM is. You kids are about to get schooled by the people who played online games while you were still a twinkle in your parents eyes.

Crap for the masses always sell better than the good stuff. Pff.

Congrats to Activision for becoming the latest money making machine of the gaming world; awesome profits, not such awesome games.... *sigh* where's the heart and soul in video gaming gone?

@GeaorgeBotts23 When i meant realistic, i meant in the setting being realistic... They have the formula down right, realistic setting, arcade gameplay, and accessibility... not to mention the single player campaign, which is over-the-top.. Battlefiled is good, no doubt but its doesn't have the accessibility like Cod and that's why it will almost never reach (quote me on that) reach CoD level in term of sales.. Socom 4 now its straying from its hardcore military roots, just to be more accessible to a wider range of audience. Also @ StingrayX5 No fps on console that makes you level up you need skills... You can always play like crap and still level up and that my friend is just one of the accessibility that CoD has and other are trying to emulate..

@GuinessHero It went out of the window a long time ago when so-called investors started rubbing their hands together.

Activision almost had me when they announced Call of the Dead, but I still refuse to support it. I learned my lesson long ago to rent any CoD game.

I wonder EA/Crytek haven't released their earnings for Crysis 2.

Congrats . The Robots left the cave. I'm not buying this Black Ops game until its 20 bucks or less

it's a nice game but it's sad that this series gets so many sales while other great series such as Penumbra, Amnesia, Cryostasis or STALKER don't. @feature83: very well put

lol only sheeple play black ops as it requires no skill.... childs play

im more excited about the D3 news then all the records COD has broke to be honest.

Buy if you want to play. dont buy if you didn'nt want to. and don't complain.

They should make a COD Black ops 2. it would continue where BO left off but the campaign will be extra long and you can have the ability to switch firre modes and screw silencers and scopes on/off guns. We need better sp and more option in cod games.

Congrats to Activision, they made CoD the standard FPS.

I liked Call of Duty Black ops. Not keen on on-line play. Once and a while but that is it. Activision seems to have done well. Hopefully they will be able to make another series. Call of Duty is not going to hold forever.

hornetine.....Exactly mate, i buy CoD each year for the single player. When thats done its down to the nearest GAME store for trade in, do it early enough and i lose literally a few British pounds. So i've paid like £39.99 completed it then traded it in for say £30.00-£35.00. So completing the single player effectivly cost me £5-£10, a good price for an 8 hour game. Then its back to Bad Company 2 (And im buzzing at the prospect of Battlefield 3, which is going to bury CoD this year!) for my online hit. I despise CoDs online game as its populated by a) Kids who are too young to play it b) Campers who gather at spawn points for cheap easy kills then boast about being top of the scoreboard when in fact they shouldnt because its not skill thats got them there and c) Cheats and modders. I still own WaW and BLOPs just for the Zombies, and even then BLOPs will probably go at some point because the Zombies are not a patch on the WaW version. No doubt i'll end up getting reams of thumbs down for this, but my message to those who do is....When you're old enough that you're buying games from your own pocket (not mummy and daddies) you'll realise CoD is the same churned out crap every year, then maybe you'll realise just how many £40s you've wasted over succesive years lol

Best selling huh? Wow...

I'm irritated that Wii owners were promised DLC for Black Ops, and now we're being shafted.

@Joshua250 I don't think it stopped being new since CoD2 (we've seen a lot of additions since, all copied one way or another by other game studios, and obviously, sometimes even improved), but if it were the case, it's also true for other titles as well, so, yes, they set the standard.

does these kids know any others shooters excludding halo?

@ShroomyGrl You sound like an insecure crybaby. Your entire argument is one massive non-sequitur where you equate the popularity of CoD to quality and jealousy of people who play superior games. Call of Duty is essentially Lil Wayne, Britney Spears, Drake or Linkin Park - except for games.

@hugonne No it didn't; for people who weren't born yesterday, Call of Duty doesn't do anything new. It stopped being new since CoD 2. Still, despite disliking CoD, I'm happy for its successes. Hopefully the game industry can stablise itself and we can have the quality of games from the Xbox, PS2 and GC era with the improvements from the current era.

Hence why I prefer Battlefield more since you actually have to have skill to earn your levels.

@irti101 Your just a simpleton. Face it, you got bored of Battlefield cuz it ain't a noobfest. How can running around on a 2*4 map not get boring to you. Are people that simple minded. This generation of young gamers are cursed. I do like the single player aspect of COD for its story though. The MP is just too arcadey and simple for me

It is an arcade shooter, and more easier to play then Battlefield, IMO that's why it's so popular, If you want more realism, play Battlefield.

Battlefield 3 anyone?

CoD is the best selling FPS for a reason: they set the standard for current FPSs today on the market. The aiming mechanics, the ranking system, even the controller layout. All other shooters do is try to tweak a thing or two in order to "seem" different, while still being ridiculously similar in most aspects of the game.

You want to know why MW3 will still beat BF 3 in sales? One reason..... 1. Generations today want everything haned to them on a silver platter. COD is for the simple minded people who just want to jump on and get super easy kills. If any area of thought about "tactics" or "using recoil" properly comes into play, peoples brain will hurt and they will drop it. Simple.