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Game Surpasses $1B in Revenue in 6 Weeks
« on: December 22, 2010, 03:30:00 AM »
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20026321-17.html

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Call of Duty: Black Ops has surpassed the $1 billion worldwide sales mark after just six weeks of availability, Activision announced today.

That's one mighty sized industry.  I bought a PS3 the other week and bought this game... it's a nice distraction.

Having been a bit of a gamer on the ol' Amiga back in the day I'm looking to develop a site that dips its toes into the 'gaming world'. There had been talk of gaming by the masses having a large part to play in social networking, but I imagine the 'high end' games such as these will be around for a very long time.
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Re: Game Surpasses $1B in Revenue in 6 Weeks
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2010, 08:14:03 AM »
My kids had the earlier version. It made me dizzy to watch. The first person shooters going all the way back to Castle Wolfenstien have done this to me. I don't know how people can sit around and play this for hours on end. I end up needing Dramamine. ;)
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Re: Game Surpasses $1B in Revenue in 6 Weeks
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2010, 08:31:41 AM »
Castle Wolfenstien Doom and Quake I thought were awesome in the early 90's

I have not played a game since 1995 as all you gain playing games all the time is get better at the game, you gain no knowledge whatsoever
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Re: Game Surpasses $1B in Revenue in 6 Weeks
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2010, 09:07:48 AM »
I've got the new Xbox 360 but I end up playing Angry Birds Seasons or MiniGore on my Iphone most of the time  ;D
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Re: Game Surpasses $1B in Revenue in 6 Weeks
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2010, 04:15:38 PM »
Yeah,  the COD franchise is a behemoth. It will be interesting to see what they pull out for 2011 since they don't have IW for bi-annual offerings.

As an aside, we recently bought a Kinect, and it's very fun. First video gaming where you get good exercise. It's pretty viral for those who try it, many stories about people buying a gaming console for the first time after playing kinect at friends'/relatives' place. Happened to me, first I showed it to bought a console package within a few days.
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Re: Game Surpasses $1B in Revenue in 6 Weeks
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2010, 08:05:54 PM »
It's hard to get in front of the revenue stream on those blockbusters.  Activision can dictate their terms at this point with those IPs.
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