Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Shattered Day One Records Across Platforms

Written by Brandon Hofer on October 14, 2018

News: The latest Call of Duty game from Treyarch is off to a hot start with early indicators suggesting that adding a battle royale mode was a wise move.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has only been available for a couple of days but it has already set an impressive record. According to Activision, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has set a new launch day record as the biggest day one digital release in Activision history. Digital sales for the first day of release broke the franchise record set in 2017 by Call of Duty: WWII. Released Friday, Black Ops 4 also set a new PlayStation record for day one digital full game sales on PlayStation Store, globally. The title also quickly became the best-selling Activision Xbox One digital game on day one, globally. The first Call of Duty release ever on Blizzard’s Battle.net, the PC version of Black Ops 4 also delivered a new franchise high in which launch day PC digital sales more than doubled year on year.

In its first day of availability, the total number of people who connected online to play Black Ops 4 increased from last year’s release.

“Black Ops 4 is an incredible game, and the community’s response to it has been amazing. We have shattered multiple digital day one sales records, and the number of people who connected online on day one to play has grown year on year,” said Rob Kostich, EVP and GM, Call of Duty. “But probably the most important thing is that the community is having so much fun across Multiplayer, Zombies and Blackout. We are so incredibly thankful for the community’s trust and support. This is just the beginning, it’s going to be an incredible journey with Black Ops 4.”

Digital downloads of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 are based on unit sell-through on the first day of availability worldwide. Largest day one digital sales in Activision history based on combined console and PC units sold through on the first day of availability worldwide. Largest day one digital full game sales on PlayStation Store according to PlayStation. Largest Activision Xbox One digital game sales in Activision’s history based on Activision sales data.

The Call of Duty train doesn’t appear to be slowing down any time soon and this is just the digital sales. I was in a local Best Buy on release day and saw stacks of the game that had been pre-ordered and were just waiting for people to come and pick them up. It would appear that jumping into the battle royale genre was a very wise move on the part of Treyarch and Activision.

Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think. Did you pick up Call of Duty: Black Ops 4? If not, do you plan on doing so in the near future?