Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Wu Yanzu in South China for the delivery of clues! CTOnews.com, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) call of Duty, a giant IP, has been rolling forward in the video game industry since 2003, and its latest work has set a new record.

Call of Duty 19: modern Warfare II broke through the $1 billion (about 7.22 billion yuan) mark in just 10 days. Activision-Blizzard said it was the fastest work in the game's history to reach this milestone.

So far, players have played call of Duty 19: modern Warfare II for more than 200 million hours and played more than 1 billion games on the mainframe and PC.

While sales of $1 billion in 10 days are excellent, it is not an industry record. The honor belongs to GTA 5, which exceeded $1 billion in sales within three days of its launch in 2013.

The call of Duty series is traditionally the best-selling game in the game industry every year, but concerns about the series have quietly emerged in recent years as sales fell short of expectations.

CTOnews.com learned that Modern Warfare II is a sequel to Modern Warfare, which was restarted in 2019, with the iconic characters and themes of the original series, but is packaged as a fresh story set in today's world. Outside reviews of single-player campaigns are mediocre, but multiplayer games are highly praised.

The success of the game is sure to be noticed by regulators, who are deciding whether to oppose Microsoft's planned $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The deal has come under particularly intense scrutiny in the UK, where regulators worry that the acquisition will hurt competition in the video game industry, especially if Microsoft stops offering call of Duty on Sony's PlayStation or other platforms at some point. Xbox CEO Phil Spencer (Phil Spencer) has said that Microsoft has no plans to withdraw the series of games from the PlayStation platform.

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