Reuters: Technology News: New "Call of Duty" game has 1st-day sales of $500 million

Reuters: Technology News Reuters.com is your source for breaking news, business, financial and investing news, including personal finance and stocks. Reuters is the leading global provider of news, financial information and technology solutions to the world's media, financial institutions, businesses and individuals. // via fulltextrssfeed.com

New "Call of Duty" game has 1st-day sales of $500 million Nov 16th 2012, 14:39 Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:39am EST (Reuters) - The latest "Call of Duty" videogame had sales of more than $500 million in the first 24 hours of its release, a new record, game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc said on Friday. By comparison, Microsoft Corp's sci-fi action-shooter "Halo 4," launched a week earlier, had sales of $220 million in its first day on the market. In 2011, Activision reported first-day sales of about $400 for its latest game at the time, "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3," and sales of $1 billion after 16 days. Activision, the world's largest videogame publisher, raised its earnings outlook last week on expectations for strong holiday sales of its new "Call of Duty: Black Ops II," saying it hoped it would beat previous "Call of Duty" records. However, the company said on Friday that it remains cautious about the rest of 2012 and 2013. As more gamers migrate from console gaming to mobile offerings on tablets and smartphones, the video game industry has seen revenues decline. The performance of high-profile titles like "Call of Duty" is being watched closely as a gauge of future demand for the sector. Activision said it believes the new "Call of Duty" represents "the biggest entertainment launch of the year for the fourth year in a row." It said millions of fans attended more than 16,000 midnight openings at retail stores worldwide on November 13. Its first-day sales estimate was based on Chart-Track, retail customer sell-through information and internal company estimates. Activision shares were up 14 cents to $10.70 in early Nasdaq trading. (Reporting By Aditya Kondalamahanty in Bangalore and Sinead Carew in New York; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty and John Wallace) Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions