Activision has shipped a colossal 3million copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to UK in a bid to satisfy the inevitable rush for this year's biggest game.
This enormous shipment should keep the game on shop shelves throughout the launch-day rush and well into the Christmas buying season, according to MCV.
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GTAIV currently holds the UK five-day sales record with 900,000 copies - a figure Modern Warfare 2 is widely expected to beat this week.
Activision celebrated the launch of its epic shooter with a flashy party in London last night, with a giant screen displaying a countdown to midnight when the first copies of the game (not sold before street date, that is) would have been handed over to eager gamers.
That's one copy for every 20 people in the country. Exclude those over 65 (one assumes) and those under 18 (one hopes), and that's closer to one copy for every twelve. Taking a step further, and discounting the ladies (I know there are some lady gamers, so please forgive the gross assumption on my part) works out as one copy for every six males aged 18-65.
Even 'Candle in the Wind' didn't sell that well...
3 million copies to the UK and its reported they expect to sell 14 million copies worldwide.
Thats a pretty big chunk coming from us Brits. And to think we get screwed over by MS, Sony and Nintedo when it comes to platform support and benefits.
You would think with numbers like that they would be falling over themselves to make sure we are treated at least equally to our Yankee cousins.
3 million units does seem like an awful lot for a country of ca. 60 million and with the rough demographics of the UK as the first poster pointed out. Still, it is worth bearing in mind that there are customers outside the UK that prefer the English retail version and the often cheaper UK software prices compared to other Western European nations. Thus some of the sales of the UK stockpile could very well end up outside the UK's borders.
I got mine for Ł26 quid from sainsburys', although I did have to queue for 45 mins. I did notice something while I was in the queue and that was that a large proportion of the queue were middle aged women, with a kid in school uniform. This seems to me to defeat the object of an 18 rating. Also when I went to Sainsbury's a couple of weeks ago they wouldn't sell me alcohol (I'm 20) because my mate (also 20) forgot his driving licence (I.D). Double standards.
3 million copies to the UK and its reported they expect to sell 14 million copies worldwide.
Thats a pretty big chunk coming from us Brits. And to think we get screwed over by MS, Sony and Nintedo when it comes to platform support and benefits.
You would think with numbers like that they would be falling over themselves to make sure we are treated at least equally to our Yankee cousins.
Maybe next gen actually ?
14M? - so much for it being the biggest selling game of all time.
In fact, that'd still put it behind Mario Kart Wii - which is available on one platform only, of course.
A round of applause for Nintendo is in order!
Still, impressive figures for MW2 - but, I doubt anyone is surprised at that.
I got mine for Ł26 quid from sainsburys', although I did have to queue for 45 mins. I did notice something while I was in the queue and that was that a large proportion of the queue were middle aged women, with a kid in school uniform. This seems to me to defeat the object of an 18 rating. Also when I went to Sainsbury's a couple of weeks ago they wouldn't sell me alcohol (I'm 20) because my mate (also 20) forgot his driving licence (I.D). Double standards.
That sort of thing really p***es me off.
I was talking about the networks (PSN and Live) being moderated to ensure that kids are not allowed to play games that are rated 18. Fair enough, it is very difficult for the retailers to stop adults buying the games for their kids, but both MS and Sony could do something to stop them playing online with the games.
For a start, it might put some of the kids off buying them and it'd also stop a fair bit of the immaturity on both PSN and Live.
My brother said this isn't something that they could do, but surely a simple age verifier would stop this a little?. Anybody have any thoughts on this?
Amazon let me down and mine didn't turn up. i went to Sainburys and got one of the last copies they had for Ł26. Amazon can have their copy back when it eventually arrives...
I got mine for Ł26 quid from sainsburys', although I did have to queue for 45 mins. I did notice something while I was in the queue and that was that a large proportion of the queue were middle aged women, with a kid in school uniform. This seems to me to defeat the object of an 18 rating. Also when I went to Sainsbury's a couple of weeks ago they wouldn't sell me alcohol (I'm 20) because my mate (also 20) forgot his driving licence (I.D). Double standards.
That sort of thing really p***es me off.
I was talking about the networks (PSN and Live) being moderated to ensure that kids are not allowed to play games that are rated 18. Fair enough, it is very difficult for the retailers to stop adults buying the games for their kids, but both MS and Sony could do something to stop them playing online with the games.
For a start, it might put some of the kids off buying them and it'd also stop a fair bit of the immaturity on both PSN and Live.
My brother said this isn't something that they could do, but surely a simple age verifier would stop this a little?. Anybody have any thoughts on this?
To be honest, I think the unchecked behaviour on xbl is much more of a scandal than that scene in MW2. It seems the gaming companies just don't wanna know, but they could do something if they wanted to. I complained about an american kid being racist (he even messaged me half a racist joke for some reason and I wasn't even talking), and he is still on there and MS haven't followed it up with me at all.
I seriously think that every single time we hear something racist, homophobic or some 13 yr old kid, we should complain. That's what me and a mate have decided to do. And then if nothing happens, complain to MS. Gaming companies might be arrogant so and so's, but they don't really want to be seen as some unregulated conduit for igorance and hate do they? Especially now they're trying to sell to the parents/families. I can see why Nintendo didn't go down the voice chat route with the wii - frustrating but very sensible.
Anyway, I bought my MW2 for Ł25.99 (that's 1p in the bank on all your Sainsburys punks!), with no queue at all and didn't have to get up at 7am (got down there at 11:45). Ahhh being self employed does have it's benefits!
Bought my copy back in August from Tesco's for Ł25.99. Delivered this morning by a very nice man, who even called me Sir. Good Job, Fellas!
So what am I doing at 5pm? Is it seven to eight hours (estimated) of single campaign gaming, I hear you ask? No, it's measuring curtains for the new house. My missus has well and truly p'wned me...
I don't know how to actually reply but here is my reply. Anyway I don't think that an age filter will be any use as you could just lie about your d.o.b. Maybe link it to a credit card (I think you have to be 18 to have a credit card.) I don't think there is actually any way to stop it.
Also you just know that one of these kids who had the game purchased for them is going to get assaulted by someone else (under age) and then blame it on them playing a violent video game (COD:MW2).
There's no way for MS or Sony to tell if the person playing is of whatever age. You could always make a system where users can raise suspicion about certain accounts, but that's open to far too much abuse.
Once again the only sure-fire way of stopping children getting access to Live is the parents using the parental settings.
But that's a bit of a catch 22 because those parents who are responsible enough to set limits and stop their children playing inappropriate games are more likely to have well-behaved children anyway.
It was 26 quid in morrisons at 11.45 today they had 5 PS3 copies sitting there i was very tempted to see how many copies you were allowed ,buying them and going to game and trading them in,kind of makes you wonder how many of those 3 million sales haven't already been traded in.
I got mine for Ł26 quid from sainsburys', although I did have to queue for 45 mins. I did notice something while I was in the queue and that was that a large proportion of the queue were middle aged women, with a kid in school uniform. This seems to me to defeat the object of an 18 rating. Also when I went to Sainsbury's a couple of weeks ago they wouldn't sell me alcohol (I'm 20) because my mate (also 20) forgot his driving licence (I.D). Double standards.
That sort of thing really p***es me off.
I was talking about the networks (PSN and Live) being moderated to ensure that kids are not allowed to play games that are rated 18. Fair enough, it is very difficult for the retailers to stop adults buying the games for their kids, but both MS and Sony could do something to stop them playing online with the games.
For a start, it might put some of the kids off buying them and it'd also stop a fair bit of the immaturity on both PSN and Live.
My brother said this isn't something that they could do, but surely a simple age verifier would stop this a little?. Anybody have any thoughts on this?
To be honest, I think the unchecked behaviour on xbl is much more of a scandal than that scene in MW2. It seems the gaming companies just don't wanna know, but they could do something if they wanted to. I complained about an american kid being racist (he even messaged me half a racist joke for some reason and I wasn't even talking), and he is still on there and MS haven't followed it up with me at all.
I seriously think that every single time we hear something racist, homophobic or some 13 yr old kid, we should complain. That's what me and a mate have decided to do. And then if nothing happens, complain to MS. Gaming companies might be arrogant so and so's, but they don't really want to be seen as some unregulated conduit for igorance and hate do they? Especially now they're trying to sell to the parents/families. I can see why Nintendo didn't go down the voice chat route with the wii - frustrating but very sensible.
Anyway, I bought my MW2 for Ł25.99 (that's 1p in the bank on all your Sainsburys punks!), with no queue at all and didn't have to get up at 7am (got down there at 11:45). Ahhh being self employed does have it's benefits!
I got mine for Ł26 quid from sainsburys', although I did have to queue for 45 mins. I did notice something while I was in the queue and that was that a large proportion of the queue were middle aged women, with a kid in school uniform. This seems to me to defeat the object of an 18 rating. Also when I went to Sainsbury's a couple of weeks ago they wouldn't sell me alcohol (I'm 20) because my mate (also 20) forgot his driving licence (I.D). Double standards.
That sort of thing really p***es me off.
I was talking about the networks (PSN and Live) being moderated to ensure that kids are not allowed to play games that are rated 18. Fair enough, it is very difficult for the retailers to stop adults buying the games for their kids, but both MS and Sony could do something to stop them playing online with the games.
For a start, it might put some of the kids off buying them and it'd also stop a fair bit of the immaturity on both PSN and Live.
My brother said this isn't something that they could do, but surely a simple age verifier would stop this a little?. Anybody have any thoughts on this?
To be honest, I think the unchecked behaviour on xbl is much more of a scandal than that scene in MW2. It seems the gaming companies just don't wanna know, but they could do something if they wanted to. I complained about an american kid being racist (he even messaged me half a racist joke for some reason and I wasn't even talking), and he is still on there and MS haven't followed it up with me at all.
I seriously think that every single time we hear something racist, homophobic or some 13 yr old kid, we should complain. That's what me and a mate have decided to do. And then if nothing happens, complain to MS. Gaming companies might be arrogant so and so's, but they don't really want to be seen as some unregulated conduit for igorance and hate do they? Especially now they're trying to sell to the parents/families. I can see why Nintendo didn't go down the voice chat route with the wii - frustrating but very sensible.
Anyway, I bought my MW2 for Ł25.99 (that's 1p in the bank on all your Sainsburys punks!), with no queue at all and didn't have to get up at 7am (got down there at 11:45). Ahhh being self employed does have it's benefits!
I got mine for Ł26 quid from sainsburys', although I did have to queue for 45 mins. I did notice something while I was in the queue and that was that a large proportion of the queue were middle aged women, with a kid in school uniform. This seems to me to defeat the object of an 18 rating. Also when I went to Sainsbury's a couple of weeks ago they wouldn't sell me alcohol (I'm 20) because my mate (also 20) forgot his driving licence (I.D). Double standards.
That sort of thing really p***es me off.
I was talking about the networks (PSN and Live) being moderated to ensure that kids are not allowed to play games that are rated 18. Fair enough, it is very difficult for the retailers to stop adults buying the games for their kids, but both MS and Sony could do something to stop them playing online with the games.
For a start, it might put some of the kids off buying them and it'd also stop a fair bit of the immaturity on both PSN and Live.
My brother said this isn't something that they could do, but surely a simple age verifier would stop this a little?. Anybody have any thoughts on this?
You're going to love my answer, which incidentally is not meant to ignite a flame war: dedicated servers. With them you can have servers specifically set up for adults where anyone whom doesn't pass a mic test (if you don't have a mic, buy one,) or something similar, is automatically kicked. Conversely I am also not so cold hearted as to want child gamers to be completely shut out from playing with "the big boys" as some of them may dearly desire to do (although given the rating of this game they shouldn't be, but that's for the parents to decide). After all, if one gets annoyed by an insufferable brat online - and lets face it, who hasn't at some point? - there's always the next server or the option of kicking him/her from the server...Or at least there was that option for the PC version.
Bought my copy back in August from Tesco's for Ł25.99. Delivered this morning by a very nice man, who even called me Sir. Good Job, Fellas!
So what am I doing at 5pm? Is it seven to eight hours (estimated) of single campaign gaming, I hear you ask? No, it's measuring curtains for the new house. My missus has well and truly p'wned me...
Haa Haa Haa Haa, this is just what i need to shut up all those noobs that go on at me about them preordering the last copies cause its going to sell out. get in there supermarkets, kicked game in the nuts didnt you sainsbutys'.
might get one now, even though i cant play online B*****d foulness island with its dial-up connections. Grrrrrr!
3 million...lovely jubbly...just 1 will do me nicely.
Heh heh, and it still wasn't enougth to stop Sainsburys running out of stock Glad a lot of peeps managed to pick it up for 26 notes though. I bet Activision are fuming!
Heh heh, and it still wasn't enougth to stop Sainsburys running out of stock Glad a lot of peeps managed to pick it up for 26 notes though. I bet Activision are fuming!
On the contrary - Activision would have made the same amount of money, Sainsburys would've taken quite a hit though.
Also, it'd mean that more people would have bought it, so it's even better for Activision.
I got my copy for Ł26.00 and didn't even move from my desk....or for that matter intend to buy it (yet at least).
Its been a rather amusing several days at work. Two gents I work with have been conjuring up their master plan at getting this as cheap as possible (for at least over a week).
Cutting a long story short, several copies of overlord (to trade in at gamestation thanks to game), sainsburys doing everyone a favour, we all managed to bag a copy for Ł26.00 at work and some of them even made a profit with their trade ins. At one point someone got the 2 copies for a little over 50quid, and a Ł45.00 store credit for trading in. Gamestation you really dropped one there!
So whilst everyone else was rushing about the most sweat I worked up was caused by the steam off my coffee mug.
3 million units does seem like an awful lot for a country of ca. 60 million and with the rough demographics of the UK as the first poster pointed out. Still, it is worth bearing in mind that there are customers outside the UK that prefer the English retail version and the often cheaper UK software prices compared to other Western European nations. Thus some of the sales of the UK stockpile could very well end up outside the UK's borders. That will be me then, as i buy all my games in the UK. At 25 quid its a third of the price of what it costs in spain or most of europe. Plus i want it in English and games here now only tend to come in spainish only. Never understood why thats the case when its on a blu ray disk. Not like they are short of space.
For all those blaming GAME, PLAY, AMAZON AND HMV for late deliveries in the UK.
None of them were responsible for late orders - all online retailers sent the game between November 3rd and November 6th however because of the Royal Mail strike - all retailers used ParcelForce to send the game to houses however ParcelForce deliberately kept the game until Monday 9th November - don't ask why but it was ParcelForce that caused late deliveries.
And MW II is expected to sell shed loads more than 14 million copies its already sold over 5 Million on first day release (including early preorders)
not so crazy if you add in new console sales and the fact that kids from about 12 upwards will be playing this.
A salient point and well taken. I think it should be mentioned though that if dig deeper it is likely some households own more than one copy of a given console. Will those households really buy multiple copies of the same game? The answer in some cases seems to be "Yes". As seen on this thread some people whom may only have one unit of a given console have bought more than one copy of the game. What can we conclude with a great degree of certainty from all of this? That we have insufficient data at present to make a rock solid case for or against the initial premise of the initial statement.
Maybe, just maybe this is the biggest scam ever. We were all hyped up and angry with the 55 quid retail price and low and behold when it arrives anything between Ł25.99 and Ł32.00 seemed fair for us all. We all rushed out and bought it just in case there were no other stocks. All shops have it this morning to sell more and we all have our copies we rushed out to buy on day 1 making it one of teh fastest selling games in history. Plenty to go round and Infinity Wards have their money. sainsburys and morrisons have this offer on all week and are getting stock every day. Great marketing ploy in my books.
well my copy from Game never arrived yesterday, apparently my copy never got sent by parcelforce and slipped through by royal mail first class, so i will never know if it will arrive here. Couldnt bare the wait so went to my local tescos and got it for Ł32 last night.
I nearly gave up and bought the game from the shops yesterday. It was about 2:30PM, and it still hadn't arrived, so I thought about going, but left it for a few hours. Then, my mum gets back from shopping, with the game packaged up in her hand. Apparently it was delivered when I gave up waiting for it, and was lying on the doormat, unbeknownest to me.
It was worth the wait, but I'm a bit underwhelmed by single player though, sorry to say. The missions with Soap and his crew are great, but the early American invasion missions are boring, and require a lot of backtracking and forwardtracking. Still, it's still fairly early, it will get better. Airport mission was shocking, but satisfying, in a perverse sort of way. Kind of like Dynasty Warriors but with guns and no men in armor.
That`s 3 millions copies shipped to the UK, That doesn`t mean 3 million copies sold an in peoples homes does it? I would think I alot of those are still in the distribution chain.
That`s 3 millions copies shipped to the UK, That doesn`t mean 3 million copies sold an in peoples homes does it? I would think I alot of those are still in the distribution chain.
That`s 3 millions copies shipped to the UK, That doesn`t mean 3 million copies sold an in peoples homes does it? I would think I alot of those are still in the distribution chain.
Id love to know how many actually stay in the UK once sold too!!
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B*****d foulness island with its dial-up connections. Grrrrrr!
