Call of Duty: Black Ops Game Setting New Records, 5.6 Million copies for $360 Million

Activision Blizzard has announced it has set a new record for the video game industry with Call of Duty: Black Ops. On its first day, the game sold about 5.6 million copies for $360 million, Setting a new record in the Gaming Industry

Black Ops is the seventh version or installment of the the famous Call of Duty franchise.

The last version “Modern Warfare 2” was a huge success as well with overall sales of 4.7 Million Units in United States and United Kingdom. But Black Ops settled that score in just one day.

Activision did say that they were not expecting Black Ops to be such a success and outperform last year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Call of Duty: Black Ops, with 3D support, goes on sale for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, DS, and PC on November 9.

Here is what Activision Blizzard has to say about all this:

Shattering its own day-one sales record, Activision Publishing, Inc.  (Nasdaq: ATVI) announced that Treyarch’s highly-anticipated Call of Duty®: Black Ops has become the biggest entertainment launch ever with an estimated sell-through of approximately $360 million in North America and the United Kingdom alone in the first 24 hours of its release, as compared to last year’s estimated day-one sell-through of $310 million for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare® 2 in North America and the United Kingdom, according to internal Activision estimates.