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Added by Jeff Gerstmann on Jan. 7, 2009

Robert "fourzerotwo" Bowling, Infinity Ward's liaison to the wonderful world of the gaming community, posted up some pretty wild stats for Call of Duty 4 on his blog. Take a look at this stuff...

As of Jan. 3rd we hit 10,006,606 unique users who have ever played Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on Xbox 360 and have connected to Xbox Live at least once after playing.

That number got us curious as to how many of those 10 Million+users finished the F.N.G. mission, or beat Airplane on Veteran (among other things). Well, it turns out:

71.1%, or 7,111,508 people have completed F.N.G.

That’s more than the entire population of Hong Kong (which is 7 Million).

68.8%, or 6,886,509 people have completed Cargo Ship.

This is the same number of adults in the US who were morbidly obese in 2005.

46.5%, or 5,654,643 people have beaten the game on any difficulty.

This is more than the current population of Finland!

2.8%, or 283,632 people have completed Airplane on Veteran difficulty.

The population of Stockton, CA is 280,000.

So if you’ve beat Airplane on Veteran difficulty, then congratulations. You’re in a very elite club. Considering less than 3% of players have been able to do it.

Now keep in mind, these are only players on Xbox 360 (who have also connected to Xbox Live at least once). So there are more than this playing Call of Duty 4, we just can’t track them. For PS3, we pulled MP-numbers only, and it looks like theres approximately 4,381,276 unique users playing PSN (not including SP-only players).

Here are some men with guns, so you understand what I'm truly talking about.
Here are some men with guns, so you understand what I'm truly talking about.
Not listed: the percentage of bolt action rifle shots that hit center mass.

Those are some really extreme numbers. 10 million on one platform is no joke. Of course, that doesn't directly translate into sales, as some of those users must have rented the game or picked it up used. And there are plenty of users who aren't connected to Xbox Live at all, so they can't be counted.

What's interesting to me is that 71.1 percent completed the "F.N.G." level in the game. That's the very first thing you do in the single-player campaign. That means close to 30 percent (MATH!!!!) of the people they're able to survey never even touched the single-player side of things.

It'd be interested to see an apples-to-apples comparison between 360 and PlayStation 3 on these numbers, but since COD4 is a pre-trophy game, they're only really able to get multiplayer stats. 4.3 million unique multiplayer users on the PS3 ain't no joke, man.

I wish more developers would release these kinds of stats. I'm totally fascinated by stuff like this.


54 Comments

Sparky_Buzzsaw
on Jan. 7, 2009
Wait a second... people live in Finland?  That's the real news here.

YellowChu
on Jan. 7, 2009
That's crazy...and I feel like I NEED to get COD4 now.

Karmum
on Jan. 7, 2009
Interesting, and I hated that Airplane mission, I had to spend at least 200 tries on that thing.

MrMiyagi
on Jan. 7, 2009
That's crazy!

TheWolf619
on Jan. 7, 2009
That is fascinating stuff. Makes me want to go home and fire it up to continue my quest to get 100% Achievements.

NateDogg
on Jan. 7, 2009
Woo! I'm part of that 3% :)

borgmaster
on Jan. 7, 2009
that's pretty interesting numbers there, and you're right about how more dev.'s should do this.

dtran1212
on Jan. 7, 2009
ha, i just got off of COD4 like half an hour ago, that game is fucking addictive

MadMatr07
on Jan. 7, 2009
The "Mile High Club" achievement was the only one for the game I couldn't unlock. Despite how many times I tried.

Pibo47
on Jan. 7, 2009
I AM ONE OF THE 2.8%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MasterSplinter
on Jan. 7, 2009
So I am elite?!?!? ZOMG 1000/1000 HOLLERZ!!!

Kush
on Jan. 7, 2009
It's nice to see stats like this...It's also a bit weird seeing "Mile High Club" referred to as the Airplane mission. I never really thought of it as anything else until reading that little piece.

alConn
on Jan. 7, 2009
I beat the airplane mission on Veteren on my PC, which totally counts even though it isn't on the 360.

RHCPfan24
on Jan. 7, 2009
I feel special to be part of that 2.8%

SmugDarkLoser
on Jan. 7, 2009
I'm a 2.8%.  Yay!!!! 

Shane394
on Jan. 7, 2009
Sweet.... I did the Mile High Club! Oh wait, so did everyone else on this site. Damn.

AlexGREAT75
on Jan. 7, 2009

2.8%???  I thought more people have gotten the Mile High Club achievement by now. I'm proud to have gotten that achievement, however I am ashamed I only have about 600 gamerscore from the game.


goodwood
on Jan. 7, 2009

"2.8%, or 283,632 people have completed Airplane on Veteran difficulty.

The population of Stockton, CA is 280,000."

Actually the population is a lot higher now  asians are taking it over but we are also the forclosure capitol so it might actually be down too haha.


TheGreatGuero
on Jan. 7, 2009
Whoever it is that hasn't played the single player campaign is really missing out.

wiII
on Jan. 7, 2009
I'm in the 3%, yay.


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