Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 break sales records

I still can’t understand why some people, kids and grown-ups alike, love playing games (PS, xbox, etc) so much. Are you one of them? via AP

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — First-day sales of Activision Blizzard Inc.’s “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″ broke records, raking in an estimated $310 million in North America and the United Kingdom alone.

The video game went on sale all over the world on Tuesday, but Activision provided figures Thursday only for North America and Britain. The company estimates that it sold about 4.7 million copies of the game in the first 24 hours in those markets, making it the biggest-selling launch in the history of entertainment.

The latest installment in the “Call of Duty” action franchise was expected to at least match last year’s “Grand Theft Auto IV,” which was the most successful video game release in history and at the time may have been the top entertainment launch ever.