Modern Warfare 2 Sales Top $1 Billion

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/14/2010 01:50 PM | source: | 0 comment(s)

Activision just announced that Modern Warfare 2 has passed $1 Billion in sales worldwide.

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) announced today that Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 continues to set sell-through records crossing the $1 billion mark in retail sales worldwide since its launch in November, according to internal Activision estimates.

In its first five days alone, the game sold an estimated $550 million worldwide, outpacing five-day worldwide theatrical box office gross figures for such films as Avatar, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and The Dark Night, according to internal Activision estimates and boxofficemojo.com.

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