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Call of Duty leads UK entertainment sales in 2012

by Mark Tyson on 13 March 2013, 15:15

Tags: Activision (NASDAQ:ATVI), Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA)

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Last year Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 was the biggest selling entertainment title in the UK, with nearly 2.7 million copies of the game sold. The game narrowly beat EA’s FIFA 13 which scored about 2.6 million sales last year. However both these top selling games were leagues ahead of the next most popular entertainment releases from the film and music industries.

The BBC reports that the Entertainment Retail Association (ERA) described 2012 as a “poor” year for sales of entertainment products, with overall sales down 12 per cent year-on-year. Furthermore sales of the Top 40 titles were down 25 per cent compared to last year. It seems like there were too few truly good blockbuster releases last year “2012 was a tough year for entertainment due to a number of factors, but this sharp 25% shrinkage in sales of the biggest titles suggests that the quality of releases was at least partly to blame,” said Kim Bayley, director of the ERA.

This year has, however, already got off to a flying start with thanks in part to Skyfall, which is “on course to beat Call of Duty's tally within just a couple of months of its release” in 2013, according to current ERA figures.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 targeted for microtransactions

In related news today Wired reports that Activision will add in-game purchases to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 starting from today. Dan Amrich of Activision said of the micro items “This content contains either personal customizations or nice little luxuries that I’ve seen players request; none of them affect gameplay, but they are small, specific ways to enhance your online experience”.

Gamers will be able to buy aesthetic customisation items such as “personalisation packs”, more slots for customised weapon loadouts and maps and modes which were previously only available to limited-edition game purchasers.



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now 81, 82 and 83 in the years top 20 entertainment sales.

Now that's what I call a travesty
shaithis
now 81, 82 and 83 in the years top 20 entertainment sales.

Who buys this stuff? People who like lowest common denominator pop music yet somehow either don't get enough of it being played incessantly on the radio, music TV, adverts, TV shows, bars etc or people who somehow manage to miss it in all those places?
Funny how music is hardly there.
And, Emily Sande ? Adele ? Lana del ray ? YUK
OilSheikh
Funny how music is hardly there.
And, Emily Sande ? Adele ? Lana del ray ? YUK

Wut!
“This content contains either personal customizations or nice little luxuries that I’ve seen players request; none of them affect gameplay, but they are small, specific ways to enhance your online experience”.



Gamers will be able to buy aesthetic customisation items such as “personalisation packs”, more slots for customised weapon loadouts

Umm…