{"id":768,"date":"2026-08-25T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=768"},"modified":"2026-08-25T00:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:00:52","slug":"call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-is-way-ahead-of-black-ops-7-already-by-one-metric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Is Way Ahead Of Black Ops 7 Already By One Metric"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is nearing 400,000 copies sold on Steam already, and that’s well ahead of where last year’s Black Ops 7 stood at launch on Valve’s platform. This is according to Rhys Elliott of Alinea Analytics<\/a>, who added that pre-sales on Steam alone work out to around $21 million in revenue.<\/p>\n

Elliott said Black Ops 7 managed to hit around 200,000 copies pre-sold on Steam by launch. Modern Warfare 4 has doubled that, and with two months still to go before release.<\/p>\n

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Modern Warfare 4 is selling well so far on Steam, it seems.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MW4’s beta put up big numbers on Steam during its early-access period, reaching a peak of more than 115,000 concurrent users<\/a>. Black Ops 7, meanwhile, peaked at about 100,000 concurrent users on Steam, even after it went live for everyone outside of a beta weekend, according to ChalieIntel.<\/a><\/p>\n

MW4 performing better than Black Ops 7 by some metrics already is not a total surprise, as last year’s game was a commercial disappointment. In fact, its sales ranking in the US was the lowest for the series since 2008<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The next MW4 beta is coming up this weekend, running August 28-September 1. This will be an open beta, so anyone on any platform can play without needing to preorder. Additionally, this beta will extend to Nintendo Switch 2.<\/p>\n

MW4 is expected to have stronger outright sales overall in part on PC because it is not included with PC Game Pass like Black Ops 7 was.<\/p>\n

Impact on console sales<\/h2>\n

Elliott also observed that MW4 could help improve sales of PS5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles. MW4 is the first entry in the series since 2013’s Call of Duty: Ghosts to skip PS4 and Xbox One, so the launch of MW4, combined with the current-gen-only GTA 6, will “for sure nudge the last-gen holdouts,” Elliott said. <\/p>\n

The newest consoles are more expensive than ever today, thanks to a variety of factors, including tariffs, AI, and the capitalistic demands to always make more money<\/a>. As such, anyone buying a new console to play MW4 or GTA 6 who hasn’t kept up with the news is in for a shock at the register or online checkout. For its part, Microsoft is encouraging people to buy a used console or use a Buy Now, Pay Later service<\/a> to help fund the cost of an expensive new console. <\/p>\n

MW4 launches on October 23, while GTA 6 arrives at long last on November 19.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is nearing 400,000 copies sold on Steam already, and that’s well ahead of where last year’s Black Ops 7 stood at launch on Valve’s platform. This is according to Rhys Elliott of Alinea Analytics, who added that pre-sales on Steam alone work out to around $21 million in revenue. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}