If you’ve played Call of Duty or Modern Warfare on Xbox Live, you’ve no doubt run into obnoxious 12-year olds who think they can “trash talk”, but the kid you’re about to see takes the cake. Someone take this idiot to a doctor. And tell his mom to cancel his Xbox Live subscription.
Game analysts are like any other analysts predicting the market, sometimes they’re wrong, sometimes they’re right. Sometimes they’re “what they hell were they thinking”-wrong. Industry analyst Doug Creutz from Cowen and Company predicts that the upcoming Modern Warfare 3 will sell 25 million units worldwide, while it’s main competitor, Battlefield 3, will only sell 10 million units.
He bases his estimate on the fact that the previous Call of Duty game, Black Ops, sold 14 million copies, and Modern Warfare 3 is surely set to eclipse that. Which we agree, but 25 million? If we had to put our analyst hat on, we’d say Modern Warfare 3 sells 15 million units, tops. Which is about, oh, $900 million in revenue? Of which Activision will get $500 million.
Above is a video from a recent Dutch special forces action where they stormed a freight ship that was taken over by pirates. We get the whole thing in first person perspective from a camera mounted on one of the soldier’s helmets.
Amazon is at it again this time announcing that they will be holding a special promotion for the PS3, cutting prices on several games at various times throughout the day.
First and foremost, they will be cutting the price of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare all day long by 42% bringing the price down to $29.98. Additionally they will be holding timed deals with the first one being X-Men Origins: Wolverine at $40.
There’s no telling what else Amazon has left to unveil but be sure to check here periodically for new updates.