'Call of Duty: Mobile' Smashes Records With 100 Million Downloads in First Week (reuters.com) 43
The mobile version of video game franchise "Call of Duty" racked up 100 million downloads in its first week, industry site Sensor Tower said on Tuesday, dwarfing the debuts of previous smashes including "Fortnite" and "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" (PUBG). From a report: PUBG, Fortnite and Electronic Arts' "Apex Legends" scored 26.3 million, 22.5 million and 25 million respectively in their first week of release. "This is by far the largest mobile game launch in history in terms of the player base that's been built in the first week," said Randy Nelson, head of mobile insights at Sensor Tower. "Call of Duty: Mobile" was launched by its publisher Activision Blizzard Inc on Oct. 1 and Sensor Tower said the numbers reflected worldwide unique downloads across Apple's App Store and Google Play in the period since.
lots of virgins out there (Score:2)
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asians are probably playing it whilst having sex.
anyhow, it's been heavily advertised globally on youtube etc so it's not that surprising.
what I want to know is does it have more or less microtransactions than ghost recon breakpoint?
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Since a substantial percentage of the player base is about 14 years old, this is probably a good thing.
Is it a good game for mobile devices? (Score:2)
or is it just a high sales from a marketing blitz.
Typically the problem with mobile games of big titles, is playing complex games on them is rather difficult, as one of the disadvantages of a touch screen, you usually cover up with your finger on what you are trying to interact with. So games with a lot going on, and complex actions usually don't transfer over well to mobile games.
A while ago Nintendo did a lot of sales on Mario Run, only for it to quickly decline afterwards, because with one action jump, i
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We really need developers to partner with someone like 8Bitdo to make controllers on Android more mainstream. At this point, touch screen controls should not be a thing. The popularity of the Nintendo Switch shows that people want good quality portable games.
It would be possible for Android to take over this market. Have games that you can play on your phone with games saved to the cloud. Have another box that hooks up to your TV so you can continue playing on the big screen.
We have quite powerful comput
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Apple already has this system in place, and more. It works on iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, Macs and the Apple TV set-top box. And it supports both Xbox One and PS4 gamepads (and AFAIK, on all devices).
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Why bother? Activision disabled controller support for the release version of the game.
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sales? what sales? its Free app with in app bullshit purchases of up to over $100 per item.
1.1 GB (Score:4, Informative)
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Wanted to install this, then I saw it's 1.1 GB. Nope. I'll live without.
The embedded Tencent tracking takes up a lot of space.
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Doesn't sound that big to me. With 128 GB SD card being under $30, it doesn't seem like that big of a deal to install a game that takes up 1 GB.
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Doesn't sound that big to me. With 128 GB SD card being under $30, it doesn't seem like that big of a deal to install a game that takes up 1 GB.
Based on your advice, I took the SIM card out of my iPhone and put a SD card in its place to have room to install COD. It didn't fit very well - in fact I had to push really, really hard to get it in there - some of the plastic actually shaved off the edge of the SD card as it went in. Now I can't find in the settings how to get my iPhone to recognize the SD card, and worse, when I try ejecting the card it won't release. It's just stuck in there. I was going to put up with not having service while using the
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Doesn't sound that big to me. With 128 GB SD card being under $30, it doesn't seem like that big of a deal to install a game that takes up 1 GB.
I don't know if it's my phone or the microSD card I have, but my card has corrupted twice losing me a lot of photos each time so I've stopped trying to use an SD card. I just can't store any movies on my phone but I only watch movies on a device when traveling so a tablet works just as well for that anyway.
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You'd be better off just using an SD Card and making sure you back up your photos once in a while. I just have my phone backup the photos to the cloud (OneDrive in my case, but you can choose whatever you like). I've never had an SD card get corrupted, but I've seen it happen to other people I know. Even if you store the pictures on the phone, any kind of catastrophic damage to the phone could make it almost impossible to recover the data. I also delete the photos off my phone after a month or two as even
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Doesn't sound that big to me. With 128 GB SD card being under $30, it doesn't seem like that big of a deal to install a game that takes up 1 GB.
Pretty much every Samsung phone user who got one through their carrier is out of luck. The carriers only sell the models with the least storage and Samsung disables the ability to use removable storage to install programs.
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How do you play a FPS on a mobile device? (Score:2)
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I think I should spin up Android emulator and hilariously dominate any and all other players while playing and watching Netflix at the same time, because keyboard and mouse is a categorically better controller for any FPS.
Sure but since a keyboard doesn't do you any good how do you think you would do with one mouse on a game that players use multi-touch to play?
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Sure but since a keyboard doesn't do you any good how do you think you would do with one mouse on a game that players use multi-touch to play?
I find your lack of faith disturbing. Once you have something running on a desktop OS, all sorts of options are opened up.
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You can use one developed by the developer of the game - GameLoop by Tencent. It has perfect KB&mouse support in cod mobile
https://ocs-pl.oktawave.com/v1... [oktawave.com]
mobile? (Score:2)
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Haven't people learned yet that gaming on your phone sucks?
Haven't people learned yet that cooking food in a microwave oven sucks?
Come down from your ivory tower and look at how other people live their lives.
Activision Blizzard Inc? (Score:2)
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No. It may scare you but the Chinese response in Hong Kong is entirely congruent with police responses to comparable protests in countries like France, Germany and the USA.
Compare and contrast with, for instance, the current civil protests in Iraq, which have an actual body count.
Wagging the Dog (Score:4, Insightful)
They need some good press at the moment, looks like they'll take anything.
With their kowtowing to China here recently, they got to keep the investors happy.
Don't break the China (Score:2)
Remember, if someone dies, little gravestones pop up, and you don't get to see any bones, like the real world, because all must bend the knee to our Dictator-for-Life Chairman Winnie the Bear.