Captain Price is Right
As inevitable as death, taxes, or Hamster’s Arcade Archives release, Activision’s newest entry to theCall of Dutyfranchise,Modern Warfare 2,is enjoying an incredible launch In fact, the Steam edition of the billion-dollar head-popper has already broken the series record for concurrent players on its first day.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, available today on PlayStation, PC, and Xbox platforms is currently entertainingan amazing 192,524 playersas of this writing. While this number, in itself, is already the highest number of concurrentCoDSteam players to date, this isn’t even the peak, asMW2already hit a pretty nutso high of 238,522 players during its first hour of launch.
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That’s a stunning 100,000+ players more than the previous record, which has been held by the originalCall of Duty: Black Opsmultiplayer since 2010. Once North America wakes up and has its first cup of Joe, it will be interesting to see if this peak number can be smashed even further. Of course, this Steam count represents onlyonefaction of theCoDplayerbase, with many choosing to play on PlayStation, Xbox, or Activision Blizzard’s own Battle.net app.
The success of the newestCall of Dutytitle has been something of an annual inevitability, with even “lesser” entries such as last year’sCall of Duty: Vanguardstill pulling in sales numbers and player figures that most games can only dream of. And it seems, some 18 years from the series’ initial inception — and despite perpetual complaints that the series has “peaked” —Call of Dutywill remain one of video gaming’s most lucrative and fiscally reliable franchises.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2is available now on PlayStation, PC (Steam/Battle.net), and Xbox.
