Call of Duty: Ghosts Generates $1 Billion in Revenue on Day One, Says Activision

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Richard Walker

According to Activision, Call of Duty: Ghosts has already reached the $1 billion milestone in generated revenue worldwide, in just one day. Its first day on sale. Yesterday. These are sales to retailers rather than consumers. Grand Theft Auto V, by comparison reached the $1bn mark in consumer sales in three days.

The publisher notes that more than 15,000 stores held midnight openings for the game's global November 5th launch, leading to $1 billion in sales to retailers. Activision has yet to reveal the number of units Call of Duty: Ghosts has sold, but the publisher claims it was the most pre-ordered game at US retailer GameStop.

"Ghosts is an amazing game which ushers in the next generation of Call of Duty," commented Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg. "This is the must have launch title for the next generation of consoles, and we expect Call of Duty: Ghosts to be the most successful launch title for the Xbox One and PS4 by a wide margin. In fact, according to GameStop, Call of Duty: Ghosts is their most pre-reserved next gen title."

So there you have it. Call of Duty: Ghosts has done alright. You can read our review here.

[Via GI.biz]

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  • I will laugh then cry and then laugh again if it's already got it's record back from GTA V.
  • Lets just hope the game doesn't beat GTAV. Having not bough this, even I know it doesn't deserve the top stop... ever.
  • It surprises me that so many people buy this rehashed shit
  • Generating $1 billion doesn't mean "the game still got it." People just bought it expecting it to be the most awesome game ever created and then, a few days/weeks/months later, get hated by players. If the game is good or not, is up to the players, not by the amounts of cash it generates.
  • im going to call BULLSHIT! unless they are counting Season Pass Money, Fuck COD
  • Disgusting.
  • Hows this even possible, I understand there's still people out there that'll buy it but, the hype was not even there! Hardly any ads on tv, nowhere near as much coverage as usual, heck, ive only got 1 guy on my friends list playing the game, just 1!! Im so confused!!
  • sales numbers doesn't mean shit to us gamers. We just care about good games (which COD is not)
  • lies!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • It doesn't mean shit all, this just means that's the money it made being sold to retailers, GTA made $1 Billion in 3days from CUSTOMER sales, not from the money being sold to the retailers. This is just Activision trying to make COD sound good.
  • Probably doesn't deserve that level of sales but I'm still a huge fan of th series and very much looking forward to playing it on my X1.
  • it surprises me that people with a negative view on a game still care to post about it. i can't wait to play this. haters
  • Yes... To clarify, the sales are to the retailers rather than consumers. GTA V's record is safe for now. We've updated the post to reflect this.
  • This is going to make the haters so mad lol. Feels good
  • Way to be juvenile Activision. . . .neversoft helped make your fucking game and the only thing they did well was THPS.
  • I am not hating on the franchise. Minus MW3, I've enjoyed every minute spent on it, since the first Modern Warfare. However, this... "This is the must have launch title for the next generation of consoles, and we expect Call of Duty: Ghosts to be the most successful launch title for the Xbox One and PS4 by a wide margin..." This. Don't kid yourselves Activision. Especially with the "must have" part. Seriously.
  • This won't matter. GTA V was only sold on the 360 and PS3, and this load of mediocrity will be sold on both 7th and 8th generation consoles. If GTA V did this, it would've whooped those muppets at Activision by a long way.
  • GTA V special edition $80 CoDG hardened edition $120 CoDG prestige edition $200 CoDG also is selling on 6 platforms vs 2 for GTA V
  • Like it or hate it. I like the fact that I have bought this on demand for my 360 and will get it for the X1 for EUR 9,99. And I don't have to trade in anything - no I have it on both consoles. MP stats and Season Pass carry over. 90% of all gamers is just playing MP and thats ok but I have to say that the campaign of Ghosts is way better than the campaign of Black Ops 2 (and that's a shame 'caus Black Ops 1 had an outstanding campaign).
  • WOWZERS! This Call of Duty looks intresting... I've always been more for the Infinity Ward ones rather than the Treyarch ones. But yeah as far as a contest with GTA V, there's really no way to do that fairly, because such a huge portion of Call of Duty's sales aren't gonna happen until the 22nd and 29th.
  • Someone re-jog my memory: Did Rockstar re-use GTA IV's ending in V?
  • @20 Totally agree!!
  • 'This is the must have launch title for the next generation of consoles' No it isn't, it shall go NOWHERE NEAR my XBOX ONE thank you very much.
  • That Activision CEO sounds like a right douche.
  • I don't believe that for shit!
  • regardless of your feelings toward the series. It's still impressive, especially considering that most people are waiting for next gen, so that has affected sales
  • I bet customer sales are low. In my 2 local Game's The HMV, The Tesco The ASDA, The CeX and the Sainsburies. I was told nowhere near half GTAVs sales were made. On GTA's release Both Games were packed. Yesterday when I went up to have a browse and get a frame for my Skyrim map I looked in and there were about 6 people. 2 were getting CoD the other were getting Pokémon and Other old 360 games.
  • 'This is the must have launch title for the next generation of consoles' No, that is Battlefield 4. Battlefield 4 top's ghost's in every sense, looks, gameplay, variation, fun. If ghost's is the must have for next gen, then next gen is looking very, very sorry for it's self, ghost's looks horribly out of date, for a next gen game.
  • I don't fully understand peoples problem with cod.. It sells well, surely if it was shit, it wouldn't sell at all right? the multiplayer for ghosts is ok, not fantastic, but i can see why its so well, and why it will beat GTA V to the top spot, id be surprised if it didn't beat it by a country mile.
  • @28 BF4 campaign is truly amazing, multiplayer is just boring from my experience.
  • @18... Actually in the uk GTA V's standard edition started at around £50.. So gta v's sales didn't surprise me at all.
  • @31 Everywhere I looked it was £39-£42 so where did you see it?
  • Looking to see how much it made in consumer sales. I was about to be blown away if it made $1 billion in consumer sales in one day.
  • I work in a huge retail store in Australia. *We didn't have a midnight launch for COD ghosts because there were not enough preorders. On COD launch day we barely sold that many copies of Ghosts - Eminem's new album was released on the same day and we sold more copies of that. There is no way Activision made anywhere near Rockstar's $800 mil first day sales. No way!
  • It's so sad to see gamers enjoy this game without realizing they are rats in a tiny square with machine guns running around killing anything over and over and over
  • Joystiq has a story about them saying the SHIPPED a total of $1 billion copies of the game. Like Sony also revealing today that they SHIPPED a total of 80 million PS3's. Shipping does not equal selling. And as for ads, when I'm using my tablet (Windows RT so I'm forced to use Internet Explorer..), every single site has CoD Ghost plastered all over it. They don't need TV commercials when it's all over a website, auto-playing video ads, and it's even on our Xbox360 dashboards.
  • Usually people who don't like cod suck at it. I wouldn't like a video game if I was bad at it. But when your going to tournaments, playing in competition, or just getting high score streaks in multiplayer against randoms make the game fun. All this hate for cod is ridiculous. Granted I didn't like some of them that came out like mw3 but did you like every single halo that came out or assassins creed if not you at least have a favorite. COD has changed a lot since it's big days during modern warfare. Yeah the basics are there but there are a whole Bunch of tweaks. I'm excited to get my updated shooter every year doesnt mean I love it... No but I anticipate it. Cod also has great launches with very little server issues, glitches, etc. unlike GTA,BF4.
  • I wonder how many consumers have sold or selling there copies on ebay? Thats a loss in revenue for IW/Activision.
  • @34 in Australia a new game costs near 100 dollars... Of course it's not going to sell that much there. Look at theU.S NUMBERS
  • Ive never seen so few people on my list playing a new COD game. There's usually a big rush with everyone on after the midnight launch. One person booted this up in the afternoon
  • Just went to my local Gamestop and saw a HUGE pile of COD: Ghosts sitting on the counter and when I asked if they were pre-ordered waiting for pick up, the sales clerk told me "No, just some left over from launch night. We have too damn many." So in other words Activision, you have $1 billion worth of product on shelves. GTA has $1 billion worth of product in consoles. Nice job!
  • Of course Gamestop and GAME would buy millions of copies. They aren't good with selling actual games. Let's wait and see what their sales numbers to consumers is so we can see just how fucking stupid the "gamers" are that buy in to this shit.
  • Attax Doge CoD
  • @31 £50? only place it was selling for that was Games on Demand/PSN, you could get it for £35 off amazon.
  • LOL, proud to be not part of that stat. Screw you COD.
  • I knew CoD series will continue sales like BOMBS!!! Neat by next year will face repeat for CoD's sale bombing!!!
  • Why is everyone acting like this game is total garbage? It's really not at all. It's actually very fun.
  • @37 your joking right? Every single COD game since WAW has been plagued with glitches and MODDERS!they also have a WAY bigger budget then any other game company so the fact that they have been rehashing the same game for years and it STILL sucks horribly is the reason for the hate. BF4 may have its problems but when it does work its fun as hell. Maybe one of the best games I've played in a while.so STFU if you don't know what your talking about. There is NO REASON for call of duty to suck so much with their budget. Also its sad that they have to lie every year about their sales thinking anyone with a brain is impressed. Last year they only made half of what they said they did LMAO. still like being a COD fanboy?
  • only mugs pay more than £40 for a game
  • @48 I know what I'm fucking talking about you little nancy drew bitch. I have bought all copies of bf and cod and all I was saying is that there not garbage and the hate for it is ridiculous. Maybe you think there horrible but there not. Do I think it's better than bf4 eh depends what I'm feelin that day. BF4 has so many glitches right now it's annoying as hell to play. With freezes and certain things being disabled it pisses me off. Developer shouldn't be able to get away with that. But for cod if you like a consistent shooter every year than yeah it's a solid game. It's rehashed because it has to be you dumb fuck what are they suppose to do change everything that has worked for them? I mean assassins creed is rehashed to hell and back. So is halo. And many other games. It's a shooter that doesn't change because it is what it is and if people like it why change it. Or better yet tell me what would you like to see changed to make it not rehashed. I'm not a fucking fan boy I just see both sides and have reasonable mind trust me I prefer battle field than cod most days;)
  • @50, Halo isn't rehashed in the same way assassin's creed or CoD has been, for every halo game, there has been a piece of basic gameplay that's been changed that's changed the gerenal way the game plays. It isn't just a rehash, it isn't even close with the depth that Halo carries compared to allot of other titles. CoD hasn't been changed not because it doesn't need to be, but because they don't want to risk breaking what they have. Infinity ward have out right said they don't see the need to change the game because it's an 'E-sport' despite single games being E-sports, not game series. The newly built engine is outdated, offering nothing of any value, there is allot that could be done to improve a game like CoD, esspecialy graphically, any esspecialy with the outragous budget they've thrown at the game. Hell, I'm convinced only a fraction of it was spent on the game it's self, there's no way you could justify spending (from what i've heard) around 10 mil (might be more, i cant remember the figure's properly) and come out with something that can be summed up as an expansion to the last game. CoD ghost's falls flat on it's face when it's faced with battlefield 4, in every sense, BF4 is just the better game, for the issue's it has, it's just better still. Can't help but agree with you on the AC bit though, at least the copy and paste with the Arkam's is for a genre that lack's many good games (super-hero's).
  • Oh and one more thing who cares about how many they sold. Like everyone is saying it doesn't matter how many copies it's sold it doesn't make it a good game to everybody which I agree because GTA V sold millions and I personally didn't like the game. We are all individual gamers with individual opinions and preferences. So why are you talking that it's such a big deal that activision lied?? I say who cares if they did or not. I look at the game and make my judgement off that. If dice lied about BF4 copies sold would that alone make it a bad game??? I think not.
  • The Call of Duty series always delivers an amazing Campaign. That's all that matters to me. Screw the multiplayer it's too damn easy.
  • This game is trash, I'm surprised anyone even likes the multiplayer at all, it's broken.
  • I heard this game was worse then MW3, if you can possibly beat MW3 in awful then that's some major garbage
  • LOVE THE COD HATE. U mad bro?
  • @51 saying halo was a bit of a long shot claiming it was rehashed because some is and some isn't. I was just talking about having the same enemy's (aliens) and a lot of the same weapons. Just things like that. But I agree they have had Many changes to change the game like for example we can sprint now or we have classes we can modify and don't have to rely on going to get weapons on the field like halo 2 if I remember correctly. Seeing halo 4 multi player scared me I did not like the changes!!!
  • Bull fucking shit. The games pre orders were way down. Not many people playing the game. And the game blows. They're lying there ass's off. After they took aim at gta5 with there comments about sales. Bf4 on current gen is better, head alone next gen/PC bf4
  • #51 except that halo is crap
  • I don't understand why they don't just call it how it is. COD 2010, COD 2011, COD2012, COD 2013, COD 2014 etc etc.
  • The game could make 800 billion for all I care, the game is still the worst cod to date. Multi is terrible and full of bad mechanics... I kinda like the cod series, but this one I hate :-(
  • didnt sell so well in my store
  • Lol it's the Name that sells the game. It's like the Coke-a-Cola of the video game industry. People know it, love it, and don't want it to change the slightest bit.
  • i don't believe it. reason being is because for GTA5, the midnight release line at my Gamestop was literally 300 people long and took over an hour just to receive my game. for Ghosts, 20 people max and i was in and out in no time. and i live in an above average-populated town. there's NO WAY Ghosts surpassed GTA5, the hype for Ghosts imo wasn't even there until a week before launch.
  • @39 - WTF? That doesn't mean anything. Yeah games are a bit more expensive here in Aus but no where near as dramatic as you think. We sold both GTAV and Ghosts at the same launch price of AU$79. At GTAV midnight launch we had around 200 people pick up their copy. And during the day it flew off the shelves. We sold boxes of it. We had about 20 people pick up their Ghost pre-order and during the day we sold maybe a total of about 50 or so.
  • @ #37: To say all haters of COD must be bad at the game is stupid and naive of u. Since the first Modern Warfare me and a group have friends have played and been amazing at the games, but the franchise just seems to be declining in quality and caters more for the kids who want to muck about as opposed to tactical shooters like BF3. Apparently Ghosts feels like the MW2 era so that's an improvement compared to the las few COD games we have seen.
  • bullshit....i call major bullshit. like no where near the amount of ppl are playing this compared to when BO2 came out. fuck CoD for real! game is garbage, full of dropshotters, campers, autoaimers, hackers, boosters and cheaters. and will always be.
  • I bought it at my midnight launch...brought it back at 8am. MP was same cut & paste as MW3. Pity, i'll wait for Treyarch's next installment.
  • bullshit! They're just saying that so it seems like they beat GTA V... As others have said no one on my friends list is playing this garbage when last year about 20 people were playing BO2 release week.
  • @68 lol, sounds like a butthurt little kid. Dropshots and camping is garbage? Maybe you should email them and request the next game have those features removed instead of crying about perfectly legitimate ways of playing.
  • It never ceases to amaze me the sheer amount of complaining any CoD article gets. All of you who are saying this is a bad game in every CoD article, do you have anything better to do in life? And no I didn't buy this game, nor am I a fanboy but it has gotten to the point where people will continue to whine and complain about it. GROW UP and MOVE ON (and play games that you actually care about).
  • The people who still buy this game every year ... they have no morals. sorry but it's true.
  • @ #72: Because we live in a democratic contry, and we are free to express, think and do what we want. Do not like to see what other people say or do? Seem to offend you, do not waste your time compadre...me neither I contributed to that garbage recycled.
  • my neighbor's mother-in-law makes $67 hourly on the laptop. She has been fired from work for nine months but last month her payment was $21816 just working on the laptop for a few hours. look at these guys http://www.jobs64.com
  • For me this type of game is a renter. MP just doesn't hold my attention.
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