What’s more, there are 7 million users in the game’s Call of Duty: Elite online service, 1.5 million of them as paying annual members.
In January, Xbox Live reported that the three most recent Call of Duty titles went 1-2-3 in its listing of most popular games played on the Xbox 360. The figure concerns all users playing while logged into Xbox Live, not just multiplayer. Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare also made the top 20. Activision said both games, released in 2008 and 2007, respectively, split 5 million users.
Activision confirmed it’s working on the second iteration of Call of Duty: Elite, which will support this year’s release of the series.
p tear griffin
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:17 PMwait wy are they making another elite i dont understand ?
Pariah
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:18 PM“which will support *this year’s release* of the series”
Average
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 5:48 PMRead: “Money.”
NoTheMama
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:25 PMIt is a fun game:)
thejiveman
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:40 PMI think there are about 4 or 5 coming from cod 4 on ps3 that game is broken and they aren’t fixing it.
os42
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:46 PM“This figure concerns all users playing while logged into Xbox Live, not just multiplayer.” It certainly concerns the hell out of me… 40 million people play CoD? Stop giving Activision incentive to recycle assets at a $1b p.a. profit, and encourage them to put some effort into their games.
Chuloopa
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:58 PMI think this is one of the signs of the apocalypse, isn’t it?
Andy
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 4:22 PMI am proud to not have ever been one of these 40 million.
[Razor]
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 4:56 PMHear hear!
js
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 5:21 PMYou’re my hero.
McGarnical
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 5:49 PMYou’re amazing Andy.
STENDEC
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 6:04 PMI’ll drink to that!
Gavin
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 9:37 PMNo surprises here.
Kung Fu Kai
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 10:03 PMNot surprising, and not caring.
Seriously, why is this classed as news?
You might as well say: “This just in, my dog pooped on my front lawn today”
That’s how relevant Call of Duty news is now.
So, your ‘barely developed’ game has 40 million people playing it now, who cares?
It’s not really an achievement.
Just because millions play it doesn’t mean its the best game in existence.
Some of the best games ever created were only played by a few hundred thousand people.
Websites complain about games like Mario and Halo starting to show it’s age and hates them for not changing or making something new, but still they praise Call of Duty even though they haven’t changed a damn thing in the last 5 years.
Quantity does not equal quality.
McGarnical
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 11:21 PMWho cares? Kung fu Kai does. Apparently.