{"id":4718,"date":"2017-11-08T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/309265"},"modified":"2017-11-08T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T20:44:00","slug":"launch-to-launch-call-of-duty-wwii-saw-double-infinite-warfares-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/launch-to-launch-call-of-duty-wwii-saw-double-infinite-warfares-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch to launch, Call of Duty: WWII saw double Infinite Warfare&#8217;s sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sledgehammer Games&#8217; return-to-roots <em>Call of Duty<\/em> title, <em>Call of Duty: WWII<\/em>, earned as much as $500 million in sales during its three-day opening weekend, by publisher Activision&#8217;s own estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Including both retail and digital sell-through in the mix, the company says <em>Call of Duty: WWII<\/em> nearly doubled the launch sales for 2016&#8217;s <em>Call of Duty: Infinite Warfar<\/em>e as well, though no specific numbers on that previous release were provided.<\/p>\n<p>A boost in sales from last year&#8217;s annual <em>Call of Duty<\/em> launch is hardly surprising given that Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirschberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/291221\/Activision_Blizzard_posts_big_sales_but_Call_of_Duty_fails_to_connect_with_fans.php\">previously noted<\/a> that the 2016 entry failed to resonate with players, but the series&#8217; latest take on the WWII period seems to have rekindled the <em>Call of Duty<\/em> flame for many of those fans.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond outselling the launch weekend of its predecessor, Activision also notes that <em>WWII<\/em> set a day-one record on PlayStation 4 for digital full game sales and likewise has set a <em>Call of Duty<\/em> series record for &#8216;highest total connected users&#8217; between both current generation consoles and PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sledgehammer Games&#8217; return-to-roots Call of Duty title, Call of Duty: WWII, earned as much as $500 million in sales during its three-day opening weekend, by publisher Activision&#8217;s own estimates. Including both retail and digital sell-through in the mix, the company says Call of Duty: WWII nearly doubled the launch sales for 2016&#8217;s Call of Duty: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}