10 Nov, 2011
Not surprising, considering all the numbers with just pre-orders alone. “The record number of pre-orders from Modern Warfare 3 drove the largest day-one shipments in our history, and in the industry’s history,” said Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg.
Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick is pretty happy, who confirmed that the launch title marks the largest launch in the publisher’s history. How big is yet to be revealed, as Activision didn’t say what the day one figures were.
“The launch of Modern Warfare 3 was the largest in Activision Blizzard’s history, and our global organization remains laser-focused on delivering the largest entertainment launch of all time for the third consecutive year and to exceed the record set by Black Ops life-to-date,” said Kotick.
Via Now Gamer.
Vgchartz was reporting 9.3 million first day sales. But that’s Vgchartz, so have to take it with a grain of salt, I guess.