This news is significant for a number of reasons. First, CoD4 is huge, really huge. This is evident by the sheer number of gamers who are playing this, 15 million to be precise. For a franchise that was considered stagnant after CoD3, Infinity Ward has set themselves on a pedestal shared by the likes of Bungie. Now, when you look at the Xbox Live numbers, it is even more impressive.
According to Microsoft, Xbox Live has 17 million users overall, meaning two-thirds of them have played Infinity Ward’s first-person shooter. The figures track all players, not just those who’ve played online multiplayer (necessarily so, since the word is that only 9.5 million people pay for Xbox Live Gold).
That is mind boggling. Gamers who don’t play FPS are playing this. Granted the XBL trump PSN’s but that is for another day. The follow up is tentively called Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2. The name is cumbersome, but the game will certainly make us all go from six to midnight as soon as we play it. Pour some out for Infinity Ward. They earned it.
Impressive numbers. The game also walked away with 3 BAFTAs recently, too.
They should have called it COD: Moderner Warfare
Damn, didn’t know COD4 rocked this hard, haha.
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But amazingly enough they went back to WW2 for COD 5 (not that it wasnt a good game in itself). Hopefully they will learn from this and stay MODERN. Heck I would even take futuristic COD imagine that!