According to VGChartz, early estimates of sales show that Call of Duty: Black Ops has sold over 7 million copies, along with the 4.5 million that were pre-ordered, in its first day of availability, which was Tuesday. If the numbers are correct, that means Black Ops had a 10% larger launch compared to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and thus, making it the largest video game of all time.
There is also over 4 million people playing Call of Duty: Black Ops on Xbox Live and similar figures on the PlayStation Network.
Breaking the data down, we estimate over 3.6 million units were sold in the USA, 1.4 million units in the UK, over a million units in continental Europe and 350,000 units in Canada. Xbox 360 takes the largest proportion of sales with 59%, 36% for PS3 and the remainder on PC, Wii and DS.
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