The Enduring Success of Call of Duty: A Look at the Best-selling Shooting Game Series

“Call of Duty” is the most famous and best-selling series in the field of shooting games over time. It managed to achieve this fame with 22 parts that came to e-sports players, starting from the beginning of the twenty-first century until the present time in the year 2023. Call of Duty, in all its parts, managed to sell approximately 425 million copies sold until April of 2021, with a total profit of $ 31 billion, and the largest number of copies sold for the series went to the part called “Call O”. Duty: Modern Warfare 2019 », where this part managed to sell more than 30 million copies.
Despite the remarkable distinction of the series in the multiplayer phases and its achievement of many records over the past years in the total number of players present in those phases and connected at the same time, Call of Duty also had many distinguished phases such as the story phase, zombies, arcade, and finally survival. The series is developed by Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and Raven Software, and published by the giant company, Activision.
The series currently has an active part called “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” and it is still in its fourth season. It was mentioned that it was released last November, and it excelled in experiencing many new phases, including the “RANKED” phase, which gives players an experience similar to the experiences of global tournaments and makes them compete to reach ratings that give them valuable prizes.
Activision intends to launch Part 22 under the name “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” at the end of this year, according to many leaks that have appeared during the past days, in addition to the continuous and various updates on the version of smart phones and the current parts.