Boycotts be damned, the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 seems to be performing exceptional at retail, having outsold its predecessor in terms of first week sales. This is according to Infinity Ward community manager Robert “402” Bowling, who wrote the following in a forum post on the developer’s official site:

Yes, PC is the smallest percentage in terms of how much sold on each platform but that hardly means anything other than the PC is just the smallest market.

The PC version of Modern Warfare 2 has actually outsold the PC version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in it’s first week. Making it the most successful PC version.

Essentially, all this percentage proves is that the console versions sold great, not that the PC version sold poorly, because that’s actually not the case. The PC version has done tremendous in it’s first week, better than our previous game.

Interesting. Infinity Ward received a lot of flack for not including dedicated servers and instead requiring players to use their custom matchmaking service IWnet. In the end, though, it seems the decision has done little to stunt sales. This is despite petitions in which hundreds of thousands of people claimed they were boycotting the game. It’s worrying news for those that despise a peer-to-peer routed approach for hosting online games. IW being successful means other developers may follow in their footsteps.

3% of overall sales [Infinity Ward]

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