The Call of Duty franchise has been around since October of 2003 and since then, the COD (Call of Duty) games have been an absolute success. First lets talk about how this franchise became a success. Back in the day Medal of Honor was already out since October of 1999 and it was a pretty good shooter at that time. So before the COD series even started, Medal of Honor was already there competition. Eventually Activision (the first maker of COD) was able to overcome Electronic Arts (A.K.A. EA, the first makers of Medal of Honor). Since then COD has been more popular and has better ratings than Medal of Honor. That is how this franchise became a total success.

Sales for the COD franchise has been better and better each game. Modern Warfare 2 made over 1 billion dollars and so did Black Ops. How were they so successful? Good question and there is a simple answer right there. Black Ops were very successful in the sales department because even if people played it and hated it, it still counted as a sale, therefore they became very successful.

Treyarch can thank all the haters for purchasing Black Ops and of course, they can also appreciate the die hard COD fans for buying the game. Although the PC sales weren’t that big the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions had a bunch of copies sold. The Wii version had quite a bit of sales though it was a bit of a downfall than what people expected. Overall the sales were still incredible.