Posted on Tuesday 8-Nov-2011 10:16 PM

CoD: Black Ops dominates US with 15 million sales

Triples sales of any other game in the region released since January 2010

By Mike Jackson for computerandvideogames.com

Call of Duty: Black Ops has sold a massive 15 million copies in the US, slaughtering all other games released since the beginning of last year.

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Screenshot
This is according to new NPD figures released via a Ubisoft earnings report.

The numbers take into account sales of games released as early as January 2010 right up to September 2011. Black Ops didn't release until November 2011, and yet it has managed to triple the sales of its nearest competitors released in that timeframe.

Second on the list is Ubisoft's Just Dance, which did just over 5.2 million US sales in the same window, followed by Madden NFL 11 with 5.2 million and Halo Reach with 4.7 million sales. The full list is on Gama.

Modern Warfare 3 launched in US and Europe today, and is expected by analysts to sell up to 6 million copies globally within its first 24 hours.

[ Source: Gamasutra ]

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    The_KFD_Case on 9 Nov '11 said:

    Beast.

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    G_R7 on 9 Nov '11 said:

    F**K Call of Duty: Anyofthemwarwhateverthehell! There! I said it. Now I can move on. Sorry for taking up your time but I wanted to say it.

    PS: If you say 'haterz gona hatez' then know that yes, I will hate. You and the games. :D

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    Frogster8 on 9 Nov '11 said:

    Black Ops didn't release until November 2011? That's really odd since I've been playing it for months...

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    SoulChimera on 9 Nov '11 said:

    Black Ops didn't release until November 2011? That's really odd since I've been playing it for months...

    I think CVG keep forgetting we are still in 2011 not 2012. They do it quite often. Haha.

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    MattyR95 on 9 Nov '11 said:

    How can so many people buy that crap? :?

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    lifebrink on 9 Nov '11 said:

    How can so many people buy that crap? :?

    Exactly!

    It was honestly the worst game I've ever played! Reason I will not buy anymore CoD's and im a CoD vet too... I was playing United Offensive on PC back in the day and still do! Blops lasted 2 weeks with me it was that bad

    BF3 ftw!

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    kakah on 9 Nov '11 said:

    So BLOP has sold 3 times the volume of the next game. However crap the game is - this is very impressive business! There is a reason why they don't change the formula when the same old crap keeps selling more and more.

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    martinawatson on 9 Nov '11 said:

    Did they say on here that they were going to release something else a little special for black ops after the last map pack (resurrection ) on here, or am i going bonkers?