$ 1 billion in Call of Duty

Not only that more Black Ops in entertainment brought only a movie "Avatar." The popularity of the game is phenomenal: Revenues from sales of boxes with wheels more than $ 650 million in just the first 10 days of sales. Today, sold nearly 17 million copies of the game. Bobby Kotick the head of Activision not overjoyed: "Only" Avatar "could gather so quickly the first billion dollars." His game went on sale on November 9 and caused a lot of noise. And last part of the game - Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - also broke the record sales in the U.S.. In general, sales of video games released in the series of Call of Duty, broke the mark of $ 3 billion As soon as this information was published, the publisher securities increased by 1%, while shares of Electronic Arts and Take Two - the main competitor Activision, on the contrary fell 2%. Analysts on Wall Street with one voice saying that the company expects an extremely good Kitty IV quarter of 2010, as the market appeared as a new version of the game World of Warcraft. However, this success can be considered as a unit. It does not indicate a rapid recovery the video game industry, experts said NPD Group. According to their forecast, in 2010, selling the games themselves, the equipment and accessories for consoles, will amount to U.S. $ 18,8-19,6 billion This corresponds to the market in 2009. But in November, U.S. citizens spend on games, consoles and accessories $ 2.99 billion, which is 8% higher than in November 2009. Hardware sales for the year rose by 2%. In just a month proshlyyy sold 1.37 million consoles Xbox, 1,5 млн portable Nintendo DS, 530 thousand Sony PlayStation 3 and 1.27 million Nintendo Wii. The strongest growth was seen in the segment of accessories - sales increased 69% to $ 413.3 million, today the main enemy of traditional publishers of computer entertainment - not a crisis, and companies that develop games for social networks. Internet users play them for free, but regularly spend significant sums on the purchase of virtual goods. Their attraction is that they require no installation and is available directly from the browser window, which is loaded page on Facebook or other social network. The main "player" in the industry - company Zynga - is developing incredibly fast. Its market capitalization has recently exceeded the value of the giant Electronic Arts. The creator of games FarmVille and FrontierVille for social networking site Facebook is now estimated by experts at $ 5.51 billion, and EA - $ 5,16 billion