{"id":92993,"date":"2019-05-03T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/342030"},"modified":"2019-05-03T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T18:59:00","slug":"the-call-of-duty-series-has-sold-over-300-million-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/03\/the-call-of-duty-series-has-sold-over-300-million-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The Call of Duty series has sold over 300 million games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong>Activision Blizzard says that the <em>Call of Duty<\/em> series has now sold over 300 million games since its start in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Bobby Kotick shared the milestone in a call with investors this week (transcribed by <a href=\"https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/4259399-activision-blizzard-inc-atvi-ceo-robert-kotick-q1-2019-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single\">SeekingAlpha<\/a>), saying that this makes<em> Call of Duty<\/em> \u201cone of the most successful entertainment franchises of all time.\u201d Just looking at games, its&nbsp;a bar not many franchises&nbsp;have cleared. With its 300 million lifetime sales, the <em>Call of Duty <\/em>series is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises\">now behind<\/a> only <em>Pokemon<\/em> and <em>Mario<\/em> in terms of total games sold.<\/p>\n<p>In its 15-plus years, <em>Call of Duty <\/em>has released close to 30 different games from a variety of developers&nbsp;across generations of consoles, handhelds, and mobile devices. This particular milestone comes as Activision is pushing the series&#8217; esports scene and just ahead of the release of <em>Call of Duty <\/em>mobile outside of China.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Activision Blizzard says that the Call of Duty series has now sold over 300 million games since its start in 2003. CEO Bobby Kotick shared the milestone in a call with investors this week (transcribed by SeekingAlpha), saying that this makes Call of Duty \u201cone of the most successful entertainment franchises of all time.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92993","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\/92993","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=92993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}