{"id":93807,"date":"2016-06-06T10:56:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T08:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=93807"},"modified":"2016-06-06T10:57:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T08:57:59","slug":"call-of-duty-infinite-warfare-pre-orders-are-ridiculously-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/93807-call-of-duty-infinite-warfare-pre-orders-are-ridiculously-low","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare pre-orders are ridiculously low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Estimated pre-order data shows that the amount of pre-orders for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare in the United States is much lower than expected.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vgchartz.com\/preorders\/42505\/USA\/\" target=\"_blank\">VGChartz.com<\/a><\/strong>, the upcoming Call of Duty title has an extremely low number of pre-orders, especially when compared to previous games in the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the pre-order data for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare compared to Call of Duty: Black Ops 3:<\/p>\n<div class=\"myg_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"4\">Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare pre-orders &#8211; May 14th 2016<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"25%\"><strong>Platform<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"25%\"><strong>Weeks to Launch<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"25%\"><strong>Weekly Change<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"25%\"><strong>Total<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PlayStation 4<\/td>\n<td>25<\/td>\n<td>12,222<\/td>\n<td>33,014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Xbox One<\/td>\n<td>25<\/td>\n<td>8,147<\/td>\n<td>30,455<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"4\">Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 pre-orders &#8211; May 16th 2015<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Platform<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Weeks to Launch<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Weekly Change<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Total<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PlayStation 4<\/td>\n<td>N\/A<\/td>\n<td>7,077<\/td>\n<td>423,456<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Xbox One<\/td>\n<td>N\/A<\/td>\n<td>5,435<\/td>\n<td>287,509<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The data for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 reflects the number of pre-orders the title had as of 16 May 2015. Black Ops 3 was released in <strong>November 2015<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-order data for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare shows a major drop in sales, with the game performing far worse than Black Ops 3 did before release.<\/p>\n<p>The PlayStation 4 version of the game remains the most popular, with the Xbox One pre-orders of Infinite Warfare trailing closely behind the PlayStation 4 pre-orders.<\/p>\n<p>Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare will release on <strong>4 November 2016<\/strong> for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is how game prices hit R1,000 in South Africa: 1998\u20132016\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/93759-this-is-how-game-prices-hit-r1000-in-south-africa-1998-2016.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is how game prices hit R1,000 in South Africa: 1998\u20132016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Why we should scrap \u2018dumb passwords\u2019 in favour of smarter security\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/93693-why-we-should-scrap-dumb-passwords-in-favour-of-smarter-security.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why we should scrap \u2018dumb passwords\u2019 in favour of smarter security<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 5 exciting releases to watch out for in 2016\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/93575-5-exciting-releases-to-watch-out-for-in-2016.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 exciting releases to watch out for in 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming Call of Duty title is proving to be very unpopular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":91587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11681,4],"tags":[31,23,18401,10784,241],"class_list":["post-93807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-call-of-duty","tag-infinite-warfare","tag-pre-orders","tag-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}