CALL OF
DUTY® 4:
MODERN
WARFARE™
RANKS #1
TITLE IN
UNITS
WORLDWIDE
FOR CALENDAR
2007
Game Sells
in Excess of
Seven
Million
Units
According to
The NPD
Group, Chart
Track and
The GFK
Group
Santa
Monica, CA –
January 25,
2008 --
Activision,
Inc. (Nasdaq:
ATVI)
announced
today that
Call of Duty
4®: Modern
Warfare™ was
the #1 title
in units
worldwide
for calendar
2007,
according to
The NPD
Group, Chart
Track and
The GFK
Group.
Developed by
Infinity
Ward, Call
of Duty 4®:
Modern
Warfare™,
has sold in
excess of
seven
million
units
worldwide
since its
launch in
November.
Call of Duty
4: Modern
Warfare has
garnered
critical
acclaim,
securing
more than 18
perfect
score
reviews and
over 40
combined
Editors’
Choice and
Game of the
Year awards
in the U.S.
alone. The
game has
been
nominated
for 10
prestigious
Academy of
Interactive
Arts and
Sciences
awards,
including
Game of the
Year. Call
of Duty 4:
Modern
Warfare also
currently is
the #1 Xbox
360™ title
on Xbox
Live, based
on unique
users,
according to
www.majornelson.com.
“We’re very
excited
about this
achievement
especially
given so
many
competitive
titles this
year,” said
Will Kassoy,
senior vice
president,
global brand
management,
Activision
Publishing,
Inc.
“Consumer
and critics
agree that
Call of Duty
4: Modern
Warfare is
one of the
best games
ever created
and further
establishes
Call of Duty
as one of
the premier
brands in
the
industry.
This
ground-breaking
game and
franchise
continue to
establish
new
standards by
which all
other action
games will
be judged.”
Headquartered
in Santa
Monica,
California,
Activision,
Inc. is a
leading
worldwide
developer,
publisher
and
distributor
of
interactive
entertainment
and leisure
products.
Founded in
1979,
Activision
posted net
revenues of
$1.5 billion
for the
fiscal year
ended March
31, 2007.
Activision
maintains
operations
in the U.S.,
Canada, the
United
Kingdom,
France,
Germany,
Ireland,
Italy,
Sweden,
Spain, the
Netherlands,
Australia,
Japan and
South Korea.
More
information
about
Activision
and its
products can
be found on
the
company's
World Wide
Web site,
which is
located at
www.activision.com.
Cautionary
Note
Regarding
Forward-looking
Statements:
Information
in this
press
release that
involves
Activision’s
expectations,
plans,
intentions
or
strategies
regarding
the future
are
forward-looking
statements
that are not
facts and
involve a
number of
risks and
uncertainties.
Activision
generally
uses words
such as
“outlook”,
“will,”
“could,”
“would,”
“might,”
“remains,”
“to be,”
“plans,”
“believes”,
“may”,
“expects,”
“intends,”
“anticipates,”
“estimate,”
future,”
“plan,”
“positioned,”
“potential,”
“project,”
“remain,”
“scheduled,”
“set to,”
“subject
to,”
“upcoming”
and similar
expressions
to help
identify
forward-looking
statements.
Factors that
could cause
Activision’s
actual
future
results to
differ
materially
from those
expressed in
the
forward-looking
statements
set forth in
this release
include, but
are not
limited to,
sales of
Activision’s
titles,
shifts in
consumer
spending
trends, the
seasonal and
cyclical
nature of
the
interactive
game market,
Activision’s
ability to
predict
consumer
preferences
among
competing
hardware
platforms
(including
next-generation
hardware),
declines in
software
pricing,
product
returns and
price
protection,
product
delays,
retail
acceptance
of
Activision’s
products,
adoption
rate and
availability
of new
hardware and
related
software,
industry
competition,
rapid
changes in
technology
and industry
standards,
protection
of
proprietary
rights,
maintenance
of
relationships
with key
personnel,
customers,
vendors and
third-party
developers,
international
economic and
political
conditions,
integration
of recent
acquisitions
and the
identification
of suitable
future
acquisition
opportunities
the timing
and
successful
completion
of the
combination
of Vivendi
Games with
Activision,
the combined
companies’
success in
executing
planned
strategies
and
achieving
assumed
synergies
and cost
savings, and
foreign
exchange
rate
changes.
Other such
factors
include
additional
risk factors
identified
in
Activision’s
most recent
annual
report on
Form 10-K
and
subsequent
quarterly
reports on
Form 10-Q.
The
forward-looking
statements
in this
release are
based upon
information
available to
Activision
as of the
date of this
release, and
Activision
assumes no
obligation
to update
any such
forward-looking
statements.
Forward-looking
statements
believed to
be true when
made may
ultimately
prove to be
incorrect.
These
statements
are not
guarantees
of future
performance
and are
subject to
risks,
uncertainties
and other
factors,
some of
which are
beyond our
control and
may cause
actual
results to
differ
materially
from our
current
expectations.
(c) 2007
Activision
Publishing,
Inc.
Activision
and Call of
Duty are
registered
trademarks
and Modern
Warfare is a
trademark of
Activision
Publishing,
Inc. All
rights
reserved.
Xbox 360 and
Xbox LIVE
are either
registered
trademarks
or
trademarks
of Microsoft
Corporation.