Modern Warfare 3 tops $1 billion in 16 days

Yeah!! Congrats Activision!! I love your game !! Keep Them Coming! (Where are all the people saying BF will outsell you?)

Talk about greedy. They make all this money, they don't have to do hardly any marketing at all, and they still can't put out good games.

Hopefully they use this money to put out a quality game next time.

@Richardthe3rd Indeed,what Activi$ion has there is a perfect low risk/high reward scenario for any corporation.They would need to lose a huge part of their CoD fanbase to stop being profitable,and I don't see that happening in the near future.We may dislike it a lot,but sadly,CoD is here to stay,its simply far too well established on the market to simply die...

@rocker6 That's exactly my point. Now that they have established their brand and people would buy everything with the title COD on it maybe they could spice things up a bit. They would profit either way. That is just wishful thinking though.

Avatar - scripts, actors, scheduling, massive graphical design, giant budget barrier, made over the course of 5 years... MW 3- copy/paste MW 2 Yet apparently from this article, MW 3 > Avatar. In comparison with the amount of work required to produce both media properties, WTF?!!!!

@Rocker6 Agreed. Why would Activision vary from this course? There's no incentive for them to redesign or recreate anything and much more incentive to just keep rehashing. MW3, and likewise MW2 before it, proved that people don't want innovation and apparently are more than happy to just rebuy the same game over and over. It's not milking when you're giving people exactly what they want. Corporations dream of low risk/ high reward scenarios they can capitalize on. CoD is the most extreme case of that in video games, and it would be irrational to expect them to ever deviate from that. Makes me a bit sick to my stomach to say that, because I think CoD is one of the most derivative, exploitative and unremarkable IP's in the market. But there it is, nonetheless.

Even though MW3 sales more than previous ones, we all can agree that COD have lost many of its long fans... I say now its time for Activision to improvise for the next COD so that all gamers can celebrate its glory without haters and troll.

But I guess it is a good game :P

Addiction...

I'm not sure about the comparison...I mean, Star wars and the like are still more popular to me...but numbers don't lie, I suppose.

INCOMING HATERS

Awesome.Just Awesome!!!! :)

@someonelsesgame Why would they ever reinvigorate the genre? They have a winning formula and strongly established worldwide brand getting a lot of advertisement from Activi$ion itself and from all the "haters" around the world.At this point,the quallity of CoD game doesn't even matter at all,its all just about the name.And yeah,I agree how it sucks that FPS genre will continue and be even more tiresome and bland...

This will only fuel the continuation of a tired FPS genre. I hope that this success would drive them to take chances with reinvigorating the genre.

This is incredible,the series is losing steam more and more with each year,yet the sales are skyrocketing.I suppose a gamer of today values simplicity and casuality over all.Very bad news for gamers like myself who actually like to be provided with a challenge without 100% handholding.CoD's major successes in a way hurts the gaming industry a lot by encouraging many developers to streamline their games for wider audiences hoping to draw some of CoD's masses.But in the end,they only screw their loyal fans.... On a side note,this news makes Moore's statement about BF3 taking some of CoD's market shares totally laughable...