Bye-Bye Avatar: Modern Warfare 3 Takes $1 Billion Record - hardinhiplent79

Modern Warfare 3 officially has the tipto grossing movie in flic history, James Cameron's Avatar, in its rearview mirror: Activision's ordinal Call of Obligation shooter just made a cool $1 billion dollars in 16 days. Avatar, by comparison, took 17 to reach that figure.

Mind motion-picture show ticket and game price differences. The disparity—let's shoot high and say $20 a ticket for Avatar versus $60 a pop for Modern War 3—means movies are still reaching a broader audience, probably several times over. But as mountains 'o money belong, Modern Warfare 3 is the new king of the planetary as far as the pelt along to $1 one million million goes. Still undecided: If it'll make it to $2 one million million as fast, or eventually exceed Avatar's nearly $3 billion worldwide take (hint: credibly neither). Still, happy days for the games industry from a bean buffet's perspective.

Should we comprise "proud" that a game made more money than James Cameron's Avatar in a day's less clip, as Forbes suggests? Should money the rhythmic by which we gauge the gaming diligence's success? Really?

While critics fawned all over Modern Warfare 3, users—and I'm with the users here—bad some savaged IT. With terminated 7,000 weighing in on Metacritic, the game's averaging a misfortunate 3.2 unsuccessful of 10. The chief complaint: IT's a tedious clone of its predecessors with a abruptly, poorly scrivened campaign and forklifted over multiplayer (you can apparently tell who did or didn't gambling Modern War 2's multiplayer mode in proportion to their inexplicable enthusiasm for Modern War 3's).

In point of fact the curmudgeon in me tends to see gross sales succeeder and select (and longevity) as contradictory. Take Incarnation, a mediocre moving-picture show by any amount that made its castanets off Cameron's name and our opening John Roy Major dose of 3D hype. Or how about Cameron's Titanic, which I'm betting afterward hearing that offensively bad Celine Dion song for the umpteenth time even Honorary society members wish they'd passed happening for something many worth, say either Slap-up Will Hunt OR L.A. Confidential. Bestselling isn't an reflexive "monition, garbage" label—take Skyrim, or Stephen King's 11/22/63—but it's often a bellwether. Would anyone believe Transformers: Dark of the Moon is the fourth highest grossing flic (possibly the worst film I've seen in decades)? That Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is the ordinal? Or Alice in Wonderland the ninth?

We get what we pay for, which at this point probably means more of the cookie-cutter with Modern Warfare Whatever's Next, since "the aforesaid" somehow sells multimillions, noted by consumers or no.

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Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/472768/bye_bye_avatar_modern_warfare_3_takes_1_billion_record.html

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