The release of Activision's latest Call of Duty will be closely watched for its effect on LAGGING video games sales.

Black Ops 2 is the sequel to a 2010 title which holds the record for the world's bestselling console game.

Microsoft has already revealed its rival first-person shooter, Halo 4, made more than $220m (£138m) in global sales on its launch day last week.

Game disk sales in the US were 25% down on the year in October, according to a study by NPD.

It reported that sales had fallen to $756m in what is the sector's biggest market, noting that several other new sequels had not performed as well as previous iterations.

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I should add as my own humble opinion. Stop charging people £50/$80 for a game that is literally a fourth of the cost of the machine you play it on. And when you take into account the 'DLC PLC', games can cost up to £100/$160 a half of the machine it's played on.

They blame things like 'piracy' as the downfall, but would people need to? If you didn't charge 5 times the cost of a DVD for a game? It's there greed that is becoming there own downfall.
The DLC is killing us.. 'we have already got the over bloated price from the game now we WANT to ramp up the cost of the game in increments by selling you maps/packs/costumes that should have been in the game to start with. Oh and if you would just bend over we do have one last cost we would like to take.

I own a PS3 and have never pirated a game for it.. but over the years I must have paid at least £1000/$1600 on games. Stop ripping us off and we will buy more.

My rant is over. Fuel for your Rant...

Probably wasn't cheap...hahaha..

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Anxious PLAYERS lining up for the game’s midnight launch in London