Modern Warfare is Activision’s best selling game ever, Warzone reaches 60 million players

The Modern Warfare reboot and Warzone have put Call of Duty franchise into the limelight again. Activision has had a great start this year thanks to both of these games.

In the Q1 2020 earnings report, Activision announced that Modern Warfare has become the best selling Call of Duty game ever and Warzone has reached a player count of 60 million players. That is just in two months. While that is an impressive number, it should also be noted that cheaters who get banned will make new accounts more often than not and those numbers are counted in the player count as well.

Over 60 million #Warzone players.

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In the earnings call, Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard said, “Following industry-leading launches for Call of Duty Mobile and Modern Warfare in the fourth quarter of 2019, the franchise raised the bar even higher with the launch of Warzone in March. With the free-to-play business model and cross-platform play, Warzone expanded Modern Warfare's reach, engagement and player investment. Warzone to date has brought in over 60 million players since its launch.”

The COO of Activision Blizzard, Daniel Alegre added that they had exceeded their outlook saying, “We significantly exceeded our outlook, driven primarily by overperformance for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare throughout the quarter, including a highly successful start for our new free-to-play Call of Duty: Warzone.”