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This infographic examines the first person shooter war game Call of Duty and it’s sequels, and bounces the money made by these games about war against the actual cost of war. An ambitious task, yes, but I think you’ll be surprised at the numbers.
Note: this is impossible to break into subheadings, so I’ll just give you an overview of the information and get to the scorecard.
The Call of Duty franchise is worth over $3 billion. The games included discussed in the infographic are Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
CoD4: Modern Warfare generated $13 million in sales the first day. Modern Warfare 2 generated $550 million in the first 5 days of sales, beating out Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince‘s 5 day global box office record. $310 million of those sales occurred the first day.
Modern Warfare 3 generated $560 million in sales the first day.
Each game won multiple awards.
There is a small section on the errors associated with start up of MW3, including a domain name that redirected to a competitor game’s website, the fact that K-Mart started selling the game 5 days early, contraband copies of the game selling for $1500 each on eBay, and a pirated upload of the PC version of the game that saw 5000 downloads of the game, which was pirated out two weeks early. Despite all this, the game still generated $560 million the first day it officially went on sale.
The True Price of MW3 Vehicles
See? I did get a sub-header in there.
V-22 Osprey: cost is $67 million. Total number built is 109. MW3‘s first day of sales would have paid for 8 of them.
A-10 Thunderbolt II: cost is $11.8 million. Total number build is 716. MW3‘s first day of sales would have paid for 47 of them.
UH-60 Blackhawk: cost is $5.9 million. Fully equipped runs $44 million. MW3‘s first day of sales would pay for 47 of the standard, 12 of the fully equipped helicopters.
Stryker: cost is $4 million. Total number built is 4000. MW3‘s first day of sales would pay for 140 of these tanks.
The production of MW2 was $50 million with a launch cost of $200 million. With that $250 million, you could buy each of the vehicles listed above, plus on more V-22 Osprey.
The True Cost of War
The Obama administration seeks $553 billion for funding the Department of Defense in 2012. The majority of funding goes to the Navy and Marine Corps, with a little more going to the Air Force than the Army.
The Iraq War cost $797 billion dollars. That’s the Call of Duty franchise times 265.
Call of Duty and the Military
The Call of Duty Endowment is a code that helps employ veterans. It gave $125,000 to the Paralyzed Veterans of America, and has plans to contribute $1 million to other veteran organizations.
In March of 2010, 300 copies of MW2 were given to the US Navy – a value of $180,000.
On November 11, 2011, $3 million was donated to the Endowment by Activision, the company that created the Endowment. Another $250,000 was donated to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s National Chamber Foundation, a host of hiring fairs that is expected to secure jobs for at least 3,500 veterans.
Scorecard
Design: A
Looks like the game, striking graphics. The information is organized as well as it can be.
Information: A+
Great information and the way it mixes the game information with the military information is key.
Source: Call of Duty Modern Warfare Infographic brought to you by Modern Warfare News.
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So, I have to admit I geeked out a little when I found out what this infographic was about. I am not admitting to any large amounts of online gaming, or my vintage Atari buttons and t-shirts, or my SGI Dogfight-induced Carpal Tunnel in ’89, or anything like that, I just think it’s really interesting to learn about history. History is important. Right? I guess I digress…
Online Gaming Timeline
This infographic is great-looking. The header is just perfect, with its old-school feel, and the timeline set forth is impressive because of the sheer amount of research that went into it. It lists the online games created since 1973 starting with Empire, the first networked multiplayer game, and ending in 2011 with the long-anticipated Duke Nukem Forever, which was so long-anticipated that it could never live up to fans expectations, and is thought largely to suck.
Online Gaming Sales
After the game information, including the year, the name of the game, the creator of the game, and a tidbit of information about each, there is a section on game sales. It’s broken out by system, and the pie charts look like little Pac-Men. The yellow part of the Pac-Man is the sum of the world’s sales in millions, and the red piece is America’s piece of the pie. The grand total for the whole world in game sales is $3431.34 million dollars. Is your mind blown yet?
The next section covers the top 10 games sales by publisher in millions – also showing the sum of America and the sum of the world. Nintendo is the clear winner, with Sony a distant second. The section right after that deals with the top 10 best-selling games of all time, broken into an “all games” category and an “online multiplayer only” category. For “all games,” the big winner is Wii Sports, followed by Super Mario Brothers. The best selling online multiplayer game? Mario Kart, of course.
The Wrap-Up on Online Gaming
There are two more little sections – one with the total sales in units. Check out the number. Mind-boggling. The last bit is a big old word cloud shaped like Pac-Man with names of games that were world-changers. It’s fun to hunt for your favorite and see how big it is in comparison to others.
Design: A+
The mix of classic video game graphics and the layout of the infographic work perfectly, and I honestly can’t think of any criticism for the look of the graphic.
Information: A+
Everything you ever needed to know about online gaming, all wrapped up in a very big and fun to read infographic.
Source: Online casino and online casino games from Silver Oak
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PawDigs, a site devoted to dogs, has come up with a great infographic looking at some of the most popular and profitable dogs (both real and digital) to ever grace a TV or movie screen.
Starting with classics such as Rin Tin Tin and Lassie and movie up to more contemporary dogs such as Brian Griffin (of Family Guy fame), this infographic is nice because it not only shows you individual dogs, and gives some great information about each one, but it also devotes a section to the most profitable dog movies of all time (with Turner & Hooch at the bottom and Scooby-Doo at the top). All told dog movies have earned nearly $2 billion dollars. That’s a lot of dog treats.
What I liked most about this infographic was the little bits of info about each of the individual dogs that was provided. I didn’t know that it took 44 St. Bernards to create the sequel to Beethoven, or that every dog that’s played Lassie was a male, even though the character is female. My only real complaint is that it feels like they shoe-horned in the information about the movies, especially since so few of the dogs on the list above are featured in the movies listed. I would have preferred that it was its own infographic.
Design – B-
The overall feel of the infographic reminds me of a theater, but there’s a lot going on and a lot of small text that can be hard to read. I do like that they included images of each of the individual dogs they talked about (in case you were unfamiliar with them), but the end part with the films seems forced and doesn’t add much to the section above. It would have been better served mentioning other dogs.
Content – B-
A lot of good content about the individual dogs, but nothing beyond box office revenue for the dog movies left me a bit disappointed.
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I own and iPhone and have had one for years. I love it for all of the wonderful things it can do. My iPhone does lots of things such as makes calls, take photographs, record my messages, surf the internet, remind me of appointments and many other useful tasks. I feel as if I couldn’t sometimes live without; kind of like an addiction where you reach for it first thing in the morning and put it down on your bed side table at night, or you place it lovingly on the pillow near you and whisper to it, but I digress…
Of course one of the best things to do with your iPhone is play games and that is what this iconographic is really referring to; you can’t really kill someone with your iPhone unless you tried bludgeoning them with the round corners and that would just be really awkward…
But wait! That is exactly what this infographic is telling your to do, although they recommend you drop your iPhone from a tall building to build terminal velocity instead of a brutal strike to the head. They also state this type of iPhone attack probably won’t work.
The iPhone infographic also recommends using the wired ear buds as a garrote to throttle your unsuspecting victim. Seems risky considering the flimsy cord. A more creative method of murder is mentioned; use the iPhone too transmit a signal that only an attack dog could hear and use that to have the dog attack your victim.
Lastly they devise a plan to conduct a lightning strike using the iPhones aerial antenna, but this won’t work with the iPhone 4. So only those who won’t shell out for a new iPhone are vulnerable to this type of attack.
The pitch is for the iPhone App AssassinMaster which can be found for the iPhone and Android phones. A “harmless” app that only visualizes you killing someone. Good fun to be sure.
The copy is very playful and written in a light-hearted manner. Not too long, not to short, just the right length to tell the story and get you to play along. The salesmanship of the piece isn’t heavy-handed and they give you some smirks along the way.
The obvious comic-book stylings are well done and serve the tone of the infographic very well. Colors are bright and effective and support the comic influence wonderfully. The assassin instructor is nicely illustrated, but overused. I would have liked to have seen some different facial expressions. They use the same illustration every time, just reversed in places. The other illustrations are silhouetted outlines and recognizable. But I did like the graphic style of the dog very much and felt it added a fun visual pop!
The kill-shot at the end was a little over the top, but I am squeamish at the sight of blood, so I’m probably in the minority thinking it was overdone. But it falls in line with the rest of the infographic’s tone and design and that is all you can ask for.
Good supporting infographic for a iPhone app that had quality design and sharp writing dead in its sights!
Design: A-
I love comics so I am biased, but a nice job on following the graphic theme. Points off for only one face on the “general.”
Information: A
This infographic really didn’t provide information so much as entertainment. Cleverly written with a soft sell for an iPhone app at the end.
Submitted by http://www.assassinmaster.com/
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Being that I’m an American and use USD currency I’m not totally sure just how eye-opening these costs are. Although I’m confident they are crazy expensive on par with any US celebrity, rock star or movie star. And after all, isn’t that what the Royal Family really is…a bunch of celebrities, only they can’t act or sing, as far as I know. I will also never understand the idea of royalty and why they are revered, as it seems a bit silly and wasteful. They are a tourist attraction, as one UK friend of mine said, and that feels about right, but I digress…
As the wedding between Kate Middleton and Prince William is right around the corner, just look at any celebrity magazine to know more, it is no surprise that an infographic giving the financial details who will pay for the royal wedding was created. The information tells the story of how the “poor” queen will have to dip into her personal fortune to help cover the costs for this princely matrimony. But you will also see that the government contributes £37 million to the Royal Family each year, so the each person in Britain is a contributing £69. I hope they all get a piece of wedding cake for that.
And while the bride’s parents are usually on the hook for the wedding costs, Kate Middleton’s parents only need to shell out a mere £100,000 for hotel suites, dresses and the honey moon. Not too bad for the wedding of the decade (century?).
At least the infographic tells the honest truth of the matter, which is that this entire spectacle is a…wait for it…a ploy to increase tourism! It is estimated that tourists will spend £620 million on food, drink and merchandise. Yes, the royal wedding will have more tacky merchandise than you can shake the royal scepter at and will be a huge boost to the UK economy.
The ending statement of the infographic reads that the wedding is actually priceless due to the feel good factor. So this festival of love, this merriment of matrimony, this party for the commoners will be a big Prozac for the people. If it does all of that it really is priceless, or is that worthless? I guess it all depends on how you feel about the Royal Family and their lives.
The infographic does a wonderful job of being playful, using over-sized heads on smartly illustrated bodies, which provides a nice comical contrast that fits the royal family quite well, in my humble opinion. The colors are a solid choice using blues and white for the heavy lifting. The typeface used for the larger text is easy to read and fits the good nature of the design. As with many infographics the font used for the smaller text is a bit hard to read just based on the small size, not the font chosen which looks to be Helvetica or Arial.
I wasn’t invited to share in the wedded bliss between Kate and William, but I’m glad I was invited to do this infographic review. God save the infographic!
Design: B
A fun infographic that pokes fun at the Royal wedding and the family but does so in a very professional way.
Content: B
The content itself is interesting, although USD equivalents would have been nice, and there is just enough to make you envious of what you don’t have and shake your head at how those who do have it, spend it.
Royal Wedding Cost infographic provided by Elevate Local, an internet marketing company in the UK & Fabulous Wedding Venues
