How much revenue did Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® make?

$18.3M–$49.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® sell?

Q: How many copies did Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® sell?

1.1M to 1.8M copies, based on its 45k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.8M; $18.3M–$49.3M after Steam's cut $33.3M–$75.9M before the cut; from 45k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.0M–18.8M

best case 813.7M (Counter-Strike 2)

Games like Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®

The middle of these games

≈ 9.0M–18.8M copies

≈ $67.3M–$157.6M after Steam's cut

from ~261k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Counter-Strike 2 at ≈ 620.0M–1007.5M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 73k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8k to 165k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter. The breakout hits carry e-sports + Competitive + Tactical; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2000 to 2022, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Counter-Strike: Source 2004	Est. copies ≈ 12.2M–19.8M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $33.5M–$90.1M after Steam's cut $60.9M–$138.7M before the cut	$9.99	193k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ShooterFPS
Squad 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6.0M–9.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $66.2M–$178.0M after Steam's cut $120.4M–$273.9M before the cut	$39.99	243k reviews Very Positive	MilitaryRealistic
Battlefield™ V 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6.7M–10.9M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $91.9M–$247.0M after Steam's cut $167.0M–$380.0M before the cut	$49.99	269k reviews Mostly Positive	FPSMultiplayer
Counter-Strike 2000	Est. copies ≈ 16.5M–26.8M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $45.4M–$122.0M after Steam's cut $82.5M–$187.7M before the cut	$9.99	261k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionFPS
Insurgency 2014	Est. copies ≈ 7.0M–11.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.8M–$77.4M after Steam's cut $52.3M–$119.0M before the cut	$14.99	125k reviews Very Positive	FPSRealistic
Battlefield™ 2042 2021	Est. copies ≈ 8.1M–13.1M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $133.2M–$358.1M after Steam's cut $242.2M–$550.9M before the cut	$59.99	326k reviews Mixed	FPSMultiplayer
Call of Duty® 2022	Est. copies ≈ 19.4M–31.5M 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	781k reviews Mixed	FPSMultiplayer
Counter-Strike 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 620.0M–1007.5M 38x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	9.8M reviews Very Positive	FPSShooter