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How many copies did Call of Duty® (2003) sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 492k–799k
$2.7M–$7.3M after Steam's cut $4.9M–$11.2M before the cut
from 8k reviews (Very Positive)

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

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We left Call of Duty® (2003) out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Call of Duty® (2003)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 405k–1.2M
best case 4.4M (Call of Duty: World at War)
Games like Call of Duty® (2003)

The middle of these games

≈ 405k–1.2M copies

≈ $1.1M–$7.5M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Call of Duty: World at War at ≈ 3.4M–5.5M copies, ≈ $18.5M–$49.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on World War II (8 of 8) and FPS (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Zombies + World War II, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2003 to 2010, 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 of about 79, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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