It is reported that Infinity Ward’s launch of Modern Warfare 2 on Tuesday has been a massive success in terms of sales. Figures suggest that it has broken UK sales records on the first day of release and we can only assume that it has enjoyed similar success in Ireland.
GameStop claims the game is “the biggest entertainment launch of all time”. On Tuesday it sold over 1.23 million copies in the UK grossing around £47million. The previous one-day record holder there was Grand Theft Auto IV in April 2008.
However it has not all been plain sailing since the release on Tuesday as servers went down for a time for PS3 players. Early reports suggested that the crash was due to the release of a patch but this later turned out not to be the case.
Robert Bowling of Infinity Ward tweeted on the subject "[Sony] are adding more bandwidth servers to meet MP demand. The Patch was for SP only." He later added when servers came back up "PSN Multiplayer should [now] be running at full capacity. We expect smooth skies ahead."
So how has it been for you guys?
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