How Games Challenge Hollywood: COD, Battlefield earned more money than Twilight

[siopao1984]

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How Games Challenge Hollywood: Call of Duty, Battlefield earned more money than Twilight by VR-Zone.com

Several years ago, Microsoft's Halo was the first game to reach the 100 million US dollar sale on the opening weekend. Today, the video games are challenging and beating blockbuster movies on their opening days. Case in point - Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part I.

While there is a difference in how the movie industry counts their revenue compared to the video games industry, we can draw some interesting comparisons.

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part I is the second most watched movie launch of 2011, earning 291 million dollars in the first weekend globally out of which 139.5 million came from USA. This is the fifth-best opening in the USA of all times, and 10th on a global scale. Best opening of all times was recorded by Batman: The Dark Knight with 483 million on the opening weekend out of which 158 million came out of US.

Yet, these majestic openings pale in comparison to popular video games. While the mainstream media was drooling over Twilight, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 shipped 10 million units for the launch and sold seven million units during the first weekend sale - earning more than 775 million US dollars. Battlefield 3 sold five million copies on the first weekend of sales, and 10 million copies in just 10 days, earning 300 million dollars on the opening weekend and over 610 million dollars in those first 10 days.



The mind-numbing numbers don't stop. Bethesda Softworks announced that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim sold in 3.5 million copies on the opening weekend, and that 7.5 million units were shipped in the first week of sales. Those 3.5 million units brought home 210 million dollars, while the overall launch revenue is worth just a bit below half a billion dollars ($460M). Bear in mind that Bethesda increased the launch volume by 50%, as Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas shipped in five million copies each. Next year, we expect to see Bethesda shipping 10 million units at launch and becoming the heavy lifter as Activision and EA.

In terms of media exposure versus revenue , video games are the business to be - no hundred-million dollar marketing commitment is needed, and yet the sales exceed the most anticipated movie titles of the year. It is just a matter of time before gaming related companies start publishing revenue figures in a business way with dollar figures, instead of mentioning "millions of units".

Activision Blizzard, EA and ZeniMax Media (owner of Bethesda) are all laughing their way to the bank, especially when the marketing budgets for The Dark Knight or Twilight are compared to Call of Duty Battlefield or The Elder Scrolls Series.

Did we mention World of Warcraft franchise is the first video game franchise to pass the four billion dollar mark and is bound to pass the five billion dollar mark by the end of this year? Not bad for a title which is available on only one platform and that's the PC.

[Conrad]

Haha, paeta, Soon ang tanan mga cinemas, nanay controller ky para magduwa na tanan mu tanaw, mura multiplayer game. Very nice info.. Nindot jud ang bf3, COD og Skyrim, labi nani, COD mw3, grabe rak rak hangtud katapusan hangtud mamatay si MakaroV. Hehe

[andz]

People are going to buy Modern Warfare 3 because of the story, Which ended if you played the Campaign. Kodus to people who buy the original games and support the gaming companies that make them.

Battlefield 3 was a huge success, It didn't have the good Single Player Campaign like Modern Warfare 3, but it sure did bring the awesome Multiplayer and the new Technology~ Graphics Wise.

In the end Modern Warfare is more known compared to Battlefield, that's why it has more sales. Most people can run Modern Warfare 3 compared to Battlefield 3



Why Battlefield 3 > Modern Warfare 3~ I CAN DO JAMES BOND! Eat your heart out COD Fans.
Battlefield 3 - James Bond Style - YouTube


Skyrim......... GAME OF THE YEAR! ~ Prediction ~ 9.6 average @ Metacritic from 70+ Gaming Reviews.
Worth the money! EVERY CENT! too bad 99% pirated the game @ torrents ~ could have been 10 million sold in 1 day. This game is simply awesome!

People who are playing Skyrim now:



World of Warcraft is going 5 billion earns by the end of the year.. w/ 10.3 million online payed subscribers.

The only game worth paying for monthly~ This is the MMORPG KING, Most Features, Most Content, This is the game that took many souls! lol



Star Wars MMORPG fans going to butt in ? Are you going to be BUTT HURT?



Wait are you going to Kill world of warcraft?
Haven't we heard of this before? Wow Killers from the past that failed:

Warhammer Online
Vanguard Online
Lord of the Ring Online
Aion Online
Age of Conan
List goes on..

I forgot, You do know World of Warcraft has a Customer Ticket in-game? Guess what they also help you with your homework:


Please, Chuck Norris even plays World of Warcraft, beat that!
World of Warcraft TV Commercial: Chuck Norris - Hunter - YouTube

[keropi]

Hahaha!! You can ask customer support for help on calculus??

[andz]

Hahaha!! You can ask customer support for help on calculus??

yes! the gm's even speak "Troll" Language

[unagikabayaki]

Hollywood should reconsider doing a movie adaptation of COD Modern Warfare series, Battlefield, Crysis etc., I'm sure it will be a bang !

[sioti49]

hahaha ahak ning Wow maka addict jud!