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Lightning Strikes posted...

Gonna need a source on that as I seriously doubt it. Cold War was down pretty substantially from the preceding games and ModernnEarfare did not sell as well as Black Ops III or WWII. 15 million is probably right, less for Vanguard. The limited info we have is about 10 million worth of copies for 2020 but it will be less than that given other sources of income and more expensive editions. Definitely not 30 million copies numbers.

For reference Modern Warfare 3 sold 30 million and made the same amount in its first 3 days as Cold War did in 6 weeks. I would be floored if it was even close to that amount.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-last-call-of-duty-has-sold-30-million-copies-n/1100-6481709/

Why would you think Modern Warfare reboot didn't do well? It got people back into CoD, and Warzone came out at the same time, which gave it a huge boost.

I thought I saw something about Cold War matching it in sales, which isn't super surprising since sequels to good games usually benefit from that good game's quality, but I couldn't find anything other than this: https://www.gamesradar.com/black-ops-cold-war-breaks-the-top-20-best-selling-games-of-all-time/ which says Cold War's top 20 all time in the US, 3 months after it came out (and it stayed in the top 10 for 2021 up to November, so it should've moved up that chart).

Vanguard was a big drop though, yes.