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Activision announced that the Call of Duty franchise has sold over 250 million units around the world. This news came after it was revealed that Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 was the best selling physical retail game of 2015 in North America. Following that news, Activision released the following statement.
"Call of Duty: Black Ops III was the top selling title of 2015 globally by a wide-margin in both units and dollars sold-thru. This also marks the seventh year in a row that Call of Duty has been the #1 selling franchise in North America, according to NPD. In fact, Call of Duty has surpassed 250 million units sold life-to-date worldwide. This achievement is thanks to the amazing experiences created by all of our development teams, and would not be possible without the incredible passion from the Call of Duty community. We congratulate Treyarch on creating an incredibly engaging and an enormously fun game with Black Ops III and look forward to what’s to come in 2016," said Rob Kostich, senior vice president and general manager, Call of Duty, Activision.

At last check, this places the Call of Duty franchise behind other mega-franchises such as the Pokemon franchise (275M), Super Mario (310M), Mario (521.6M) and Tetris (at least 425M on mobile alone). (1, 2)

(via Charlie Intel)