--- title: Video Gaming: Call of Duty Exceeds $10Bn in Sales description: Battle-themed video game Call of Duty has crossed $10 billion in lifetime sales, bolstered by the latest Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare canonical: https://time.com/3598950/call-of-duty-video-games-activation-10-billion/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-21T05:37:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:45:32.543Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Call of Duty' Earns $10Bn og:description: More than 'The Hunger Games,' 'Transformers,' 'Iron Man' and 'The Avengers' combined og:url: https://time.com/3598950/call-of-duty-video-games-activation-10-billion/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted79ca0b63672968/69876a2e55a8590d04a843ed/458344458.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-LIFESTYLE-GAMES-CALL OF DUTY og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Call of Duty' Earns $10Bn twitter:description: More than 'The Hunger Games,' 'Transformers,' 'Iron Man' and 'The Avengers' combined twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted79ca0b63672968/69876a2e55a8590d04a843ed/458344458.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Call of Duty_ Exceeds $10 Billion in Sales > Sponsored content. 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Google Since it was first launched in 2003, the game’s total proceeds have far exceeded combined box office receipts for the hit movie franchises _The Hunger Games_, _Transformers_, _Iron Man_ and _The_ _Avengers._ Activision has been widely praised for the feat. “It’s hard to find a more successful video game publisher than Activision,” [ Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/11/20/activision-smokescreens-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-sales-continuing-a-trend/) wrote. [IGN UK ](http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/11/20/call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-is-biggest-entertainment-launch-of-2014)called the latest release “the most successful departure from what’s expected from a _Call of Duty._” Stories in the franchise are typically inspired by historical events. The latest installment is set in 2054 and pits players as soldiers against a new villain played by Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey. This time around, Activision [ utilized ](http://news.yahoo.com/call-duty-blasts-past-10-bn-sales-232908407.html;%5Fylt=AwrBEiSiem5UHAMAwUvQtDMD)advanced capabilities in new-generation PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3598950/call-of-duty-video-games-activation-10-billion/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3598950/call-of-duty-video-games-activation-10-billion/"},"headline":"Call of Duty Exceeds $10 Billion in Sales","datePublished":"2014-11-21T05:37:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:45:32.543Z","description":"More than the Transformers, The Hunger Games, Iron Man and The Avengers movie franchises combined","url":"https://time.com/3598950/call-of-duty-video-games-activation-10-billion/","keywords":["Video Games","Tech","call of duty","activision"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted79ca0b63672968/69876a2e55a8590d04a843ed/458344458.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted79ca0b63672968/69876a2e55a8590d04a843ed/458344458.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-LIFESTYLE-GAMES-CALL OF DUTY","caption":"US-LIFESTYLE-GAMES-CALL OF DUTY","creditText":"Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/video-games/","name":"Video Games"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3598950/call-of-duty-video-games-activation-10-billion/","name":"Call of Duty Exceeds $10 Billion in Sales"}}]}] ```