Microsoft’s “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” is now officially on sale, and some Canadian users have found that their Xbox version boxes have unusual marketing words printed on them.
In the title in French, it is displayed as “The Call of Duty series is the best-selling series on PlayStation”, while the English title on the side is normally displayed as Xbox, which seems to be a typographical error. Some netizens think that the censors do not understand Due to French.
Of course, the Sony PS version of “Call of Duty 19: Modern Warfare 2” on the back of the packaging also says that “Call of Duty” is “the best-selling IP in PlayStation history.”
In response, Sony officials said that the data is based on complete sales records as of April 2022, when the game sold 25 million copies in a year, helping it to reach an all-time high in revenue in fiscal 2020. Perhaps this could also be another example of what Sony has presented to regulators in blocking Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
With Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard progressing steadily, Sony has always expressed some concern about the deal. SIE told the UK’s CMA that the deal could hurt PlayStation and other game subscription services if Microsoft offers exclusive content for Activision Blizzard games on its own consoles.
Therefore, Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation have been fighting a war of words around the “Call of Duty” series for a while. Sony insists that it will not give in, while Microsoft has repeatedly emphasized that the “Call of Duty” series will continue to launch on the PlayStation platform.
Some Xbox players have recently complained that “Call of Duty 19: Modern Warfare 2” cannot disable the cross-platform game function, but the PS platform can still disable the cross-platform function, so some Xbox and PC players are very dissatisfied with this.
Assuming the above typo will be fixed in a follow-up physical version of Modern Warfare 2, these typo games may become collectibles for some enthusiasts.
