CoD: Black Ops 4 – sales figures in Germany after World War II

The lack of campaign does not seem to hurt Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, on the contrary. As Activision and market badysts say, sales figures remain excellent this year. The trend to success was already apparent shortly after Activision published its first three days of sales of half a billion dollars and the most successful release of PCs.

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Great success on the American market

Mat Piscatella, an badyst for NPD's marketing researcher and former director of Activision in the early 2000s, pointed to the success of the US market with his own data: Compared to Call of Duty: World War II, Black Ops 4 sold better. And this applies to the box version as well as the commercial version, as well as to the digital version. NPD Group only covers retail and digital console sales. Activision Blizzard does not provide any sales information for the digital PC version via Battle.net.

Thus, the quick shot takes place from the month of October 2018 American. NPD Group video game data:
– Painting of a SP campaign did not hurt the sales launch of the month of Black Ops IIII
– On the video game side, since the beginning of the year, sales of physical and digital games have increased every year (more)

– Mat Piscatella (@ MatPiscatella) November 20, 2018

Activision has announced more on the PC version itself: the latest annual report (Third Quarter Report 2018) is number three more sold PC versions than the direct predecessor Black Ops 3. The success of the PC version of WW2 was silent before one year, which suggests (without this being confirmed) that Black Ops 4 had one of the most successful, if not the most successful, releases of the PC series.

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To stumble in Germany?

In one way or another: for Activision, the bill seems to have worked, with the Blackout version of Battle Royale to offer even more multiplayer mode and to give up a campaign. But how did the customers react in Germany?

In this respect, we do not examine the information of the American NPD group, but mention the badociation of the German industry BIU (Bundesverband Interaktive Unterhaltungssoftware). In November 2017, Call of Duty: WW2 was sold more than 500,000 times for the PS4 and between 100,000 and 200,000 times for the Xbox One. And Black Ops 4? The last call of duty would have sold between 200,000 and 500,000 times in October 2018 – with no platform-specific information. It's just enough for third place in the sales standings, ahead of the leaders expected with Red Dead Redemption 2 and FIFA 19. For the German buyer only one player would have done well.

Two additional benchmarks: In November 2016, the highly criticized Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare reached 200,000 to 500,000 units sold only on the PS 4. In November 2015, Black Ops 3 was sold more than 500,000 times on all platforms in Germany. Black Ops 4 is therefore not very serious, the Second World War was in this country but it is probably only a special exception. We will probably not look very far from the window if we do not find it surprising to refer to the scenario of the Second World War.

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