Call of Duty: Black Ops has earned $ 1 billion in sales after only 42 days on the market.Shares of Santa Monica-based Activision Blizzard closed until 2 cents to $ 12.24 Tuesday. They were up 10 percent year to date.
Avatar Century Fox 20 is still owned entertainment the fastest to get a billion dollars in sales in the short period of time: 20 days after his release.
Meanwhile, Activision Electronic Arts on Tuesday named in a lawsuit of $ 400 million that was presented in April against two Black Ops game developer Activision fired in March, the Los Angeles Times.
“Entertainment complex, only Call of Duty and Avatar have never reached a billion dollars in revenue so quickly,” Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick boasts.
Activision says that developers Jason West and Vincent Zampella violated their contract with Activision to form their own company, Respawn Entertainment, and sell a series of electronic arts competitor. (In turn, West and Zampella filed a lawsuit against Activision seeking royalty payments for Modern Warfare 2.)
“Entertainment complex, only Call of Duty and Avatar have never reached a billion dollars in revenue so quickly,” Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick told the New York Post.
Call of Duty is in the race to become one of the biggest entertainment releases in history, both in films, books or video games, reports the Post. And ‘the game, which sells for $ 59.99, records, generating $ 360 million of revenue from the first day and $ 650 million in the first five days.
Black Ops users have logged more than 600 million hours of online play – or 68500 years, Kotick told the Post. He also says the game, allowing the group to play “, is a social networking tool” and that the Activision business model is closer to Facebook from one type of video game manufacturer.
“More people play” Black Ops “every day and watching late-night hosts Jay Leno, David Letterman and Jimmy Fallon combined,” Kotick told the Post.
EA spokesman Jeff Brown told the Times: “This is a game full of deliberate meanness and bad publicity. Activision wants to hide the fact that no credible response to the request of two artists who have been laid, and now just want to be paid for their work. ”
The last game of the series, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, has exceeded one billion dollars in 64 days.
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