Many people are saying that MW2 has outsold CoD4. But this is false.

Jim Sterling has even used nebulous wording in his own blog
"declared that it sold more than the original game, indicating that the lack of dedicated servers was not a huge deal to most consumers."

however,
Robert Bowling is just comparing:
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The first week of sales of MW2
to
The first week of sales of CoD4
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This is not validation for their decisions imho. For several reasons

1.) Many of the people who bought it do not actively follow online gaming news & were unaware of the changes.

2.) There was a much larger ad campaign by ActiBlizzion & other retailers, even wal-mart ran TV ads for it (than CoD4).

3.) Wal-Mart, Amazon & a number of other retailers offered $20 off the game for pre-orders, or people who ordered before the price hike to $60 and had pre-ordered at $50 decided to just try it.

Just because they bought it doesn't mean they liked it.

http://www.infinityward.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=183344&start=20#p3035514
Robert bowling "Yes, PC is the smallest percentage in terms of how much sold on each platform but that hardly means anything other than the PC is just the smallest market.

The PC version of Modern Warfare 2 has actually outsold the PC version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in it's first week. Making it the most successful PC version.

Essentially, all this percentage proves is that the console versions sold great, not that the PC version sold poorly, because that's actually not the case. The PC version has done tremendous in it's first week, better than our previous game."


The real statistic that should be monitored is if MW2 continues to sell more than CoD4 did, into the future.

an analogy of sorts:

Take a maglev bullet train, it will start out slow at the station, gradually building speed until it reaches 200mph.

A Chevy Cobalt will beat it to 60mph, but it will never be as fast.

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This story reminds me of the kotaku Modern Warfare 2 boycott group playing story.

I had been following the dedicated servers' story since BashAndSlash broke it; and i had never even heard of such a steam group. Yet it is portrayed as some vestige of the boycotters & a symbol of it's failure.

The first week of sales story is the same type of misdirection in my humble opinion.