Mike Griffith, Activision publishing CEO , claimed in a recent interview with IndustryGamers that Modern Warfare 2 is going to be the biggest seller in the Call of Duty franchise history and will even outsell the 13 million copies sold by Call of Duty 4.

“We have goals for all of our titles… we fully expect Modern Warfare 2 to be one of, if not THE largest, title in the industry this year.

e also look at Modern Warfare 2 and where it’s strongest on the next-gen platforms of PS3 and Xbox 360… the installed base from the first Modern Warfare to the second one will be nearly double. So you add all those elements up – the greater installed base of consoles, the greater consumer base that was generated by World at War – all those things suggest that Modern Warfare 2 is set up to be more successful than any other Call of Duty we’ve launched so far.”

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