Call of Duty: Black Ops Destroys Records in November
Call of Duty: Black Ops was a monster of a release back when it initially released, generating $650 million worldwide in just five days, smashing sales records in all of entertainment history (not just games). The rest of the month proved to add more money to that massive pile according to the latest NPD software sales for November.
The NPD Group has reported video game software sales for last month, and Black Ops reigned supreme. This title alone sold 8.4 million copies, which ended up accounting for 25% of all video games sold in November. This also pushes Black Ops into the top 10 best-selling video games of all time. It is now 7th overall. It also bolstered overall video game sales for the industry that month, which totaled $1.46 billion, a 4% increase over November 2009 sales. Other notable games in the top 10 chart included Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood at number 2, Madden NFL 11 at number 4, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit at number 7, and Gran Turismo 5, after only six days from release, was right behind at the 8th spot. The full list is right below (you can click the links to read our reviews and find out just why these titles are selling so well):
- Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision Blizzard, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PC, Nintendo DS)*
- Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft, Xbox 360, PS3)*
- Just Dance 2 (Ubisoft, Wii)
- Madden NFL 11 (Electronic Arts, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP)
- Fable III (Microsoft, Xbox 360)*
- Donkey Kong Country Returns (Nintendo, Wii)
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (EA, PS3, 360, Wii, PC)
- Gran Turismo 5 (Sony, PS3)*
- NBA 2K11 (Take 2 Interactive, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP,PC)
- Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo, Wii)*
*Denotes that these titles’ sales numbers do not include sales where the game was included bundled with a console.
With Christmas just around the corner, it will be interesting to see how strongly Call of Duty: Black Ops finishes the calendar year. Of course, PlayStation LifeStyle will let you know the results as soon as the numbers are released.
4 Responses to “Call of Duty: Black Ops Destroys Records in November”
I wonder how TreyArch will be treated by Bobby Kotick now that they have bested IW sales of MW2. Do you think that they have the ability to do a different genre of game? Or are their Royalties being held hostage to do the next in the series of milk cows…
Makes me think that Kotick created the stink about the Taliban in MoH since it started outside the US and then was fanned into the US. Was this a method used to depress MoH so that sales of CoD: BO would rise. It seems funny that they did not recieve the same level of rage when you played as a Terrorist and sprayed innocent women and children in an Airport lobby and were rewarded. I wonder if the MP version of the game plays out like MoH since the storyline is similar but there is no outcry on that either. If you are fighting against any American Soldier in a MP FPS.
This is why I may never buy an Activision game and so far I have been able to say that I don’t have a single game in my library that comes from that Publisher.
The CoD games are “good”, but I’ll never understand why they sell this much.
I don’t know, is it just the cool thing to do these days? I…eh….ftph….I don’t get it!
Good for them, good for the developers. Good for people wanting to get into this business….although I advise all my programming buddies not too.
Its always the easy shooters that sell the most…….