(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Modern Warfare 2 broke sales records last year and it looks like Black Ops might be doing the same. According to GameStop, the game is already tracking ahead of Modern Warfare 2's pre-orders: "GameStop is tracking to all-time, record reservations on Call of Duty: Black Ops. We are ahead of where we were with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 last year, which previously set the industry standard." Modern Warfare 2 had nearly 3 million pre-orders when the game shipped last year. Activision is already investing more money into Black Ops than any other game, so it shouldn't have any problem with the competition this fall and early next year.

According to VGChartz, Halo: Reach sold approximately 4 million copies during its first week, which is about 1 million short of what Modern Warfare 2 did in one day on both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Michael Pachter and other market analysts are expecting Black Ops to do almost as good as Modern Warfare 2, thus beating Halo: Reach which is limited to just the Xbox 360 user base. Pachter: "Because it will be multiplatform, Black Ops will outsell Halo Reach. Activision appears to agree with me, and the marketing campaign for Black Ops should be even bigger than the Halo marketing campaign." Although highly praised, last years Killzone 2 failed to meet expectations and has sold only a little over 2 million copies worldwide to date. Killzone 3 won't be released until February 2011, but analysts are already predicting it to sell more than its predecessor and perhaps reaching 3 million units by the end of 2011. That would be about 1/7th of what Modern Warfare 2 did in less than one year and the amount of pre-orders Black Ops is predicted to have accumulated by early next month.

With the lack of major competition during Christmas and already high pre-sales, Black Ops will be one of the most played FPS games on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. If you still haven't pre-ordered Black Ops, do so now to reserve your copy and make sure you'll be playing the game on 9th of November.

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**** yeah it will! This game better not fail with hacks and shit!

Not the only person thinking this but when COD games turn into a service and less of a product. The wind fall is going to be massive.
Still impressive by the high number of pre orders even after MW2....

Can't help but wonder when the peak will come i predict 2 more games.

Also i can't put them down for making something with a big demand. Well done

BO is gonna be the bomb hell i wouldn't be suprised if it crossed halo reach tbh

Moved to Black Ops Discussion.

Bit obvious really Black Ops spans across 3 platforms , Whereas Halo and Killzone are on 1.

cool i hope they sellout halo reach and MOH because im tired of hearing of my friends saying all the time the halo reach and MOH will kick cod black ops ASS....

Well obviously Halo is a Xbox exclusive and Killzone is a PS3 exclusive, of course it will outsell...

Black Ops > Mw2 > Cod4 > W@W > KZ2 > Ghalo SERIES! in my opinion!!

obviously gonna outsell Halo an Killzone.. its on its way to outselling Mw2 for preorders so easily gonna do it!