{"id":174893,"date":"2010-01-13T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/13\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-soars-past-1-billion-in-retail-sales\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T14:00:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:00:56","slug":"call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-soars-past-1-billion-in-retail-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/174893","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 soars past $1 billion in retail sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/66acf_Modern_Warfare_2_cover.PNG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/66acf_Modern_Warfare_2_cover.PNG\" alt=\"Modern_Warfare_2_cover\" width=\"325\" height=\"421\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-134093\" \/><\/a>Remember back a couple months? The biggest news on Earth was the Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard screwed up MW2 and the game was going to fall into a bucket of fail. There were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/11\/06\/hasnt-infinity-ward-earned-your-trust-on-modern-warfare-2\/\">boycotts<\/a>, petitions, and general chaos concerning the shooter. Then it launched. Then people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/11\/13\/so-much-for-that-pc-version-modern-warfare-2-boycott\/\">started playing<\/a> it in droves. Then people shut-up and within two months the title surpassed $1,000,000,000 in retail sales.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/investor.activision.com\/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=437383\">press release<\/a> claims that only &#8220;a handful of entertainment properties that have ever reached the $1 billion mark.&#8221; I would love to rattle off some of those properties here, but I&#8217;ve been so far unable to dig up any supporting data. 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The biggest news on Earth was the Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard screwed up MW2 and the game was going to fall into a bucket of fail. There were boycotts, petitions, and general chaos concerning the shooter. Then it launched. Then people started playing it in droves. Then people shut-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}