Sales and revenue\n\n According to preliminary sales figures from Activision, Modern Warfare 2 sold approximately 4.7 million units in the United States and the UK combined in the first 24 hours of its release.

The game earned US$800 million in revenue in its first three days of release, and US$1 billion within 10 days, surpassing the series previous record-holders, 2011's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and 2012's Black Ops II. It was the best-selling game of the US in 2024.

Fred Tatasciore: Nikolai Belinski.

Richtofen likes Nikolai, who returned this respect up until Richtofen tricked the celebrities into getting the Vril Generator for him. After that, Nikolai grew suspicious of Richtofen. In Origins, Nikolai disliked Richtofen from the beginning for creating the Zombies.