Compared to last year’s Modern Warfare 3, sales of Black Ops 6 are up 30 per cent on PS5 and down “two thirds” on Xbox. Across all platforms, both physical and digital, PlayStation accounts for almost 75 per cent of the sales in the UK.
In total, sales of Black Ops 6 are down 15 per cent compared to Modern Warfare 3 and 46 per cent compared to Modern Warfare 2. As Dring notes, it’s important to incorporate Modern Warfare 2 into the picture because Modern Warfare 3 reviewed poorly and was generally considered a weak launch for the franchise.
It’ll be interesting to see whether Xbox Game Pass subscribers have seen a significant uptick as a result of Black Ops 6’s inclusion, and whether members stick around long enough to buy microtransactions.
Either way, with PlayStation accounting for close to 75 per cent of the total sales, and its share actually increasing despite the platform losing marketing rights, Sony will see these results as an enormous win. We’ll now await further information from America and the rest of Europe to see what happened there.
[source gamesindustry.biz]