Pete_LeGrant June 15, 2009 PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 77 views Comments Print This Post  Email This Post

Gamespot and The Escapist report on a professional investor’s prediction about Modern Warfare 2. Gamespot says:

In a note to investors today, Janco Partners’ Mike Hickey predicted that Modern Warfare 2 would sell through to consumers 11.1 million copies in less than two months. He says the game can achieve that mark with the help of a ramped-up preorder campaign courtesy of Activision, the more-than-doubled size of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 installed bases since the release of the original Modern Warfare, and the series’ massive fan base.

Hickey said:

“On May 26 2009, Infinity Ward’s community manager Robert Bowling
‘fourzerotwo’ commented that Call of Duty 4 has over 13 million unique
users on Xbox 360,” Hickey explained. “A particularly impressive number
considering an estimated 30 percent of Xbox’s installed base is not
connected to Xbox Live. On January 8, 2009, Bowling estimated that
there were over 4 million unique online users on the PS3 platform and
over 10 million on the Xbox 360. We assume the PS3 unique users have
now eclipsed 5 million based on Xbox 360 identified online user growth
of 30 percent.”

I’m betting that Modern Warfare 2 will be a winner. Call of Duty: World at War and COD4 have done very well on XBL and the Playstation Network, and MW2 will do better, I think.