The Call of Duty Championships kick off in Los Angeles later today, and this year, South Africa’s been excluded. Whether it’s because of the infuriating shenanigans that happened last year, or some other reason, there’s not a drop of South African representation in the upper echelon of console-based competitive Call of Duty. It makes it very hard for me to give a damn about the Call of Duty Championships, but Activision’s trying to make it happen. They’ve released a bit of an infographic, revealing some mind-blowing details about the franchise.
The biggest one, as the astute of you would have ascertained from the headline, is that since the series’ inception, there’s been a copy of Call of Duty sold every two seconds. Over the last 10 years, that equates to 175 million copies sold. That doesn’t quite put it at the top of best-selling gaming franchises though, with GTA besting it by 10 million copies. The top selling franchises, as you’d imagine, are from Nintendo: Mario and Pokémon take the top spots by a rather embarrassing margin (290 million just for the Super Mario games; coupled with spinoffs like Mario Kart, the tally reaches 509 million) – but they are both far older.
Back to Call of Duty, Activision says over 100 billion multiplayer matches have been played thus far, with players having thrown over 300 billion grenades. On top of that, players have earned 579 billion in-game awards, which they asset is more than five times the number of stars in the Milky Way. Take a look:
Last Updated: March 27, 2015
Ragnar The Vengeful
March 27, 2015 at 14:42
The infographic says a copy is sold every two seconds…. where does your two minutes come from?
Ryanza
March 27, 2015 at 14:47
Geoff + numbers = who gives a shit, it’s Call of Duty.
Hammersteyn
March 27, 2015 at 14:47
He missed a zero again?
HvR
March 27, 2015 at 15:40
Better not tell his mom this time
Geoffrey Tim
March 27, 2015 at 14:50
I think my braon refused to believe that . lemme actually do some maths though.
Hammersteyn
March 27, 2015 at 14:52
braon > brain
Geoffrey Tim
March 27, 2015 at 14:53
Crap..it really is. it’s around 15778450 copies sod every year.
Ragnar The Vengeful
March 27, 2015 at 14:59
I could have sworn the title and the article said two seconds two seconds ago. The ministry of truth is double plus good.
Admiral Chief
March 27, 2015 at 15:17
SOD?
Admiral Chief
March 27, 2015 at 14:42
Ugh, a sheep being sheepish every 2 minutes…
Hammersteyn
March 27, 2015 at 14:48
I would have liked to give advance warfare a try if it had a long SP campaign
Admiral Chief
March 27, 2015 at 14:50
Yeah, same here. At long last something NEW-ish was created in the CoDworld
Tbone187
March 27, 2015 at 16:24
It’s crap…don’t waste your time. And I am traditionally a COD fan. Yes, I enjoyed MW3 and Ghosts as well. 😉
HvR
March 27, 2015 at 15:14
There is a sucker born every minute…. well uh 2 minutes…. 2 seconds…. 2 minutes
Admiral Chief
March 27, 2015 at 15:16
HAHA
Tbone187
March 27, 2015 at 16:23
Hope u don’t own an iPhone with a comment like that.
Admiral Chief
March 30, 2015 at 08:19
I refuse ANY iDevice in my house
Ryanza
March 27, 2015 at 14:45
People are still buying Call of Duty. I still say Call of Duty is one of the reasons why the gaming industry is so fucked up. You get millions of people playing Call of Duty every day and buying Call of Duty every year. That’s all they do. Same can be said for those sport games.
They leave no time for other games. Don’t buy other games.
Release a Call of Duty game every three – four years. They will still make the money. And it opens up these millions of people to buy and play something else. Oh, but if they play something else, they will see how shitty and how the same these Call of Duty games are, and they might not buy it again. Unlikely but still.
With all the damn money that Activision gets from Call of Duty, the Call of Duty games should be melting computers and eyeballs by now. But instead it’s the same old shit resold every year.
Don’t Support Call of Duty. Stop buying the shit. Cyberpunk 2077 is coming.
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March 28, 2015 at 15:08
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Treezle
March 30, 2015 at 10:15
1. It’s my money, I can buy what I want.
2. Thats’ YOUR opinion, and I respect it. So respect the decision that people make when they buy COD.
3. Stop whining.
z1n
March 30, 2015 at 12:02
4. Profit
Hammersteyn
March 27, 2015 at 14:47
Spams the market with shoddy sequels every year, brags about the number of titles sold.
Timmy_The_Good_Troll
March 27, 2015 at 14:51
You dont have to like Call Of Duty, but ranting at Activision Blizard is just stupid. They are doing an amazing job, their first loyalty is not to gamers (they are not a charity) it is to their shareholders which would be very happy with them. PS I hate COD, but wish i had shares in Activision/Blizzard.
Timmy_The_Good_Troll
March 27, 2015 at 14:56
And heres the share price chart for you. I was watching this on CNBC the other day, one of the better performing shares on the NasDaq since the .com crash.
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/atvi/stock-chart?intraday=off&timeframe=10y&splits=off&earnings=off&movingaverage=None&lowerstudy=volume&comparison=off&index=&drilldown=off
Dutch Matrix
March 27, 2015 at 15:01
https://skeletorsjournalofevil.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/mass-effect-3-hd-krogan.jpg
Ryanza
March 27, 2015 at 15:08
https://youtu.be/yKuSwoRhHOc?t=64
Killed by a girl. If only he had Witcher senses.
Dutch Matrix
March 27, 2015 at 15:13
Funny. He never died in any of my playthroughs. 😛
HvR
March 27, 2015 at 15:14
Damn alien loving liberal
Dutch Matrix
March 27, 2015 at 15:16
Shooting Wrex is like shooting puppies. You just don’t do it!
Pariah
March 27, 2015 at 15:33
He only died in one of mine.
Pariah
March 27, 2015 at 15:31
I’m gon’ WREX YO FACE!
Timmy_The_Good_Troll
March 27, 2015 at 15:23
If this really makes your blood boil, rather just also profit from the sheep, get a SARS tax clearance, open up an overseas online share account and buy some of their shares, then you will be smiling too.
Pariah
March 27, 2015 at 15:28
Every time a copy of CoD is sold, a child in Africa dies. Stop the bloodshed, don’t buy CoD.
Timmy_The_Goog_Troll
March 27, 2015 at 15:33
Umm, this is just making me want to buy COD games now, The main problem with the world is overpopulation you know. Ok I can see Im getting a bit bad trolly again, anyway.
Ryanza
March 27, 2015 at 15:38
Ain’t that some racist bullshit. The world is over populated and the Africans needs to go first.
Like during war when the blacks were the front lines.
Pariah
March 27, 2015 at 15:41
Ah Ryanza, what would we do without you? 😀
Timmy_The_Good_Troll
March 27, 2015 at 15:42
OMG its not racist, and the comment was obviously a bit tongue in cheek. I do stand by the fact that overpopulation is the worlds biggest problem though, everything links back to it. You want organic food instead of GMO’s sorry their is not enough land for that because we need to feed to many people, you want to stop wildlife extinction, sorry there is too much habitation loss because the world is too populated etcetc etc etc etc etc
Timmy_The_Good_Troll
March 27, 2015 at 15:51
Whats racist is to assume Africa is just black, whilst they are the majority their are many races in Africa, blacks, arabs, Indians, whites etc.
Ryanza
March 27, 2015 at 15:56
Let it go. I was not being serious. Just a joke. I used the word Africans because it’s not just blacks in Africa.
The blacks comment was more true and went with the racist word.
My comment still made me laugh.
Timmy_The_Good_Troll
March 27, 2015 at 15:58
ok, all is cool. sometimes i completely miss when you are joking.
Hammersteyn
March 27, 2015 at 15:38
http://i.memeful.com/media/post/lMzzGBM_700wa_0.gif
Pariah
March 27, 2015 at 15:43
That just made me load up YouTube and watch the music video. 😀
Hammersteyn
March 27, 2015 at 16:08
XD
Guest
March 30, 2015 at 12:28
which video is this?