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As of October 2023, Call of Duty has sold over 500 million copies and has 100 million monthly active players across all platforms. [2] [3] The franchise generated $30 billion in revenue by 2022. [4] The series is verified by the Guinness World Records as the best-selling first-person shooter game series.
Call of Duty Classic is a downloadable version of Call of Duty for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, featuring HD resolutions. [33] Tokens to download the game ahead of its release were sold along with special "Hardened" and "Prestige" editions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 , [ 33 ] and the game was publicly released on December 2, 2009.
Call of Duty: Black Ops is a 2010 first-person shooter game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. It was released worldwide in November 2010 for Microsoft Windows, the PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360, with a separate version for Nintendo DS developed by n-Space. Aspyr later ported the game to OS X in September 2012.
After an open beta in August and September, the full release of Activision’s next Call of Duty entry is upon us. Black Ops 6 continues the Black Ops franchise, which first began back in 2010.
By July 2006, the PlayStation 2 version had sold 1.2 million units and earned $45 million in the U.S. NextGen ranked it as the 41st highest-selling game launched for the PlayStation 2, Xbox or GameCube between January 2000 and July 2006 in that country. Combined sales of Call of Duty console games reached 4 million units. [35]
Activision acquired the studio for $5 million in January 2003, and later publish their first title, Call of Duty, directly competing with Electronic Arts. [19] The Call of Duty series has since seen nearly yearly releases and as of 2016 had sold more than 250 million units and brought in more than $12 billion in revenue. [44]
Call of Duty: XP 2011 was the first annual convention hosted by Activision to celebrate their video game series Call of Duty.The convention was held in Los Angeles, California from September 2–3, 2011 in and around a 12-acre hangar where developer Infinity Ward (coupled with Sledgehammer Games) showcased their upcoming game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and online service Call of Duty: Elite.
Charlie Oscar Delta is derived from the NATO phonetic alphabet and the initials of Call of Duty. [17] The first Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare trailer featuring game footage was released on April 28. [18] An Xbox 360 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare public beta test was announced on August 30. The beta test was designed to test the servers, find ...