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Documents about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
PlayStation's Top First-Party Games Now Cost >$200 Million to Make
The document analyzes game development costs and market performance, primarily focusing on PlayStation's first-party titles and the Call of Duty franchise, based on data revealed during the FTC vs. Microsoft lawsuit.
- Sony’s top-tier first-party titles now frequently exceed $200 million in development costs, with 'Horizon Forbidden West' costing $212 million and 'The Last of Us Part II' costing $220 million.
- The 'Call of Duty' franchise is a critical revenue pillar for PlayStation, generating $1.5 billion in worldwide consumer spending on the platform in 2021 alone.
- Over 43 million unique U.S. PlayStation users have played 'Call of Duty' since 2019, accounting for two-thirds of the platform's domestic user base.
Console Title Activity Trends: June 2023
Console title activity data for June 2023 shows live service games continuing to dominate across PlayStation and Xbox, with subscription services increasingly acting as a user acquisition channel for both premium and free-to-play titles.
- Fortnite remains the dominant console title, leading the market with 36.1 million monthly active users and 612 million hours of total playtime in June 2023.
- Diablo IV emerged as the primary market disruptor, achieving 6.1 million monthly active users and leading in engagement depth with an average of 55 hours played per user.
- Established live-service franchises including Grand Theft Auto V, FIFA 23, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II continue to hold top market positions, demonstrating the difficulty new titles face in capturing player time.
Horny for Ghost: The Sexualized Remediation of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II on TikTok
The paper investigates the sexualized remediation, reappropriation, and remixing of the character Simon "Ghost" Riley from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II on TikTok.
- The paper is a work-in-progress presented at DiGRA 2023 examining fan remediation of Simon "Ghost" Riley from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II on TikTok, with a focus on sexualized content.
- The study is a netnographic analysis of 782 Ghost-related TikTok videos collected from one researcher's For You Page between November 2022 and January 2023.
- The analysis is organized around three themes: sexualization as opposition to the historical sexualization of women characters in games, remediation for arousal via dialogue, cutscenes, and sound, and "spicy" memetics shaped by TikTok's platform affordances.
Kansas City Pioneers Partner With Army National Guard
The Kansas City Pioneers esports organization has partnered with the Army National Guard to host six esports tournaments across the Midwestern United States during the remainder of 2023.
- The Kansas City Pioneers have partnered with the Army National Guard to co-produce six esports tournaments across the Midwestern United States throughout the remainder of 2023.
- The partnership serves as a recruitment vehicle for the Army National Guard, providing a platform to connect with gamers and promote career opportunities in fields such as cybersecurity, IT, and logistics.
- The inaugural events are scheduled for June 16–18, 2023, at the LEVELUP Arena in Kansas City as part of the Midwest Fest.
Activision Blizzard Q4 Financial Results
Activision Blizzard achieved record quarterly net bookings of $3.57 billion in Q4, a 43% year-over-year increase, driven by strong performance from its key franchises, despite a 28.5% year-over-year decline in net income to $403 million.
- Activision Blizzard achieved record-breaking net bookings of $3.57 billion in Q4 2022, a 43% year-over-year increase, despite a 28.5% decline in net income to $403 million.
- Mobile platforms are the company's primary revenue driver, accounting for 41% of consolidated net revenues, followed by PC at 25% and console at 24%.
- The Activision segment generated $1.85 billion in revenue, largely driven by the record-setting launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.
Plus: The Big (Continuing!) Steam Hits for January
This analysis examines top-performing games across various platforms, with a particular focus on Steam, for January 2023.
- Steam's market is increasingly dominated by evergreen titles, as older hits like The Forest, Raft, Hollow Knight, and Hades consistently outperform most new releases.
- Deep discounting of premium titles remains a more effective visibility strategy on Steam than the free-to-play model, evidenced by the fact that only 19 of the top 100 most-reviewed games are free-to-play.
- New release performance is highly polarized, with high-budget titles like Forspoken struggling with technical optimization despite high concurrent user peaks.
These Are the Most Successful New Games in Germany in 2022
The German Games Industry Association (game) published an analysis of the most successful new game releases in Germany for 2022, covering PC and console titles.
- EA SPORTS FIFA 23 was the best-selling new PC and console game in Germany in 2022.
- The top five best-selling new releases in Germany for 2022 were EA SPORTS FIFA 23, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, ELDEN RING, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, and LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II achieved fourth place in the annual rankings despite being released only two months prior to the end of 2022.
GTA Trilogy Remaster Stealth Launches on Steam
The document analyzes recent game sales and upcoming releases across various platforms, with a particular focus on Steam.
- Hogwarts Legacy is positioned for a major commercial launch, currently topping grossing charts on both Steam and the Epic Games Store based solely on pre-order volume.
- Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition reached the Steam top-ten grossing charts following its stealth launch, despite maintaining modest concurrent user peaks of only 400 to 800 per title.
- Legacy Rockstar titles continue to drive revenue through brand recognition and deep discounting, even as they are significantly outperformed by the ongoing success of Grand Theft Auto Online.
Plus: One Piece Odyssey - A Trad Hit for Namco
This analysis examines recent and upcoming game releases across various platforms, with a particular focus on Steam performance and console download charts.
- One Piece Odyssey is a commercial success for Bandai Namco, with first-week Steam sales projected between 150,000 and 200,000 units and a top position on U.S. PlayStation digital charts.
- The success of One Piece Odyssey at a $60 price point without live-service mechanics proves that traditional, premium-priced JRPG adaptations of major anime franchises remain highly viable.
- Chinese-developed titles are showing significant market traction on Steam, with Jianghu11 reaching over 10,000 concurrent users and Sailing Era achieving 6,000 concurrent users.
UK Video Game Market Report: 2022
This report analyzes the performance of the UK video game market in 2022, focusing on how it navigated significant economic challenges such as 11% inflation, high taxes, and low consumer confidence.
- The UK gaming market demonstrated resilience in 2022, with video game sales, particularly new releases, showing strong performance despite broader economic concerns and a consumer confidence level of -44 (worse than the start of the pandemic).
- Record-breaking sales were observed for several major titles in late 2022, including Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (fastest-selling Nintendo games), Splatoon 3 (over 3 million units in Japan in two months), God of War Ragnarök (biggest franchise launch), and Call of Duty Modern Warfare II (launch sales double Vanguard's).
- New game releases saw a 16% increase in unit sales in 2022 compared to 2021, almost reaching 2019 levels, indicating strong consumer demand for fresh content.
Gaming Spotlight 2023: The Year in Review
Mobile remains the largest opportunity in gaming, but privacy changes, macroeconomic instability, rising acquisition costs and heavy competition are making growth harder.
- Mobile gaming consumer spend is projected to decline 2% year-over-year to $108 billion in 2023, driven by macroeconomic instability, Apple’s App Tracking Transparency, and Chinese regulatory constraints.
- Home console and PC/Mac gaming spending are bucking the mobile trend with projected growth of 3% and 4% respectively, fueled by improved hardware availability and subscription-based revenue models.
- User acquisition is becoming more difficult and costly, forcing publishers to shift toward playable ads for action genres and diversify revenue through battle passes and subscriptions.
Top 2022 Steam Games by Gross Revenue
This document summarizes the highest-grossing games on Steam for 2022, based on data released by Valve.
- Valve categorized 2022 Steam top performers into four revenue tiers—Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze—based on gross revenue generated between January 1 and December 18, 2022.
- Top-tier grossing titles for 2022 included major AAA releases like Elden Ring, Dying Light 2 Stay Human, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, alongside live-service games Destiny 2 and Lost Ark.
- Long-standing industry staples, specifically Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, and PUBG: Battlegrounds, maintained their status as top-grossing titles throughout the year.
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