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PC NPD Top 15 August 2004

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Datawhore

on the 15th floor
To tie people over until the Sept Consoles sales figures come out.

PC NPD Top 15 August 2004
1 PC DOOM 3 $20,727,140 387,463
2 PC THE SIMS DELUXE $572,639 29,024
3 PC MS AGE OF MYTHOLOGY $703,973 24,122
4 PC RISE OF NATIONS $820,936 23,623
5 PC THE SIMS MEGA DELUXE $812,739 22,281
6 PC MS ZOO TYCOON: COMPLETE COLLECTION $646,002 21,898
7 PC THE SIMS: MAKIN' MAGIC EXPANSION PACK $568,612 20,736
8 PC HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED $661,509 20,435
9 PC THE SIMS: SUPERSTAR EXPANSION PACK $435,592 20,364
10 PC STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC $528,441 20,139
11 PC CITY OF HEROES $931,783 19,882
12 PC BATTLEFIELD VIETNAM $747,697 19,542
13 PC WARCRAFT III BATTLE CHEST $775,278 19,420
14 PC COUNTER STRIKE: CONDITION ZERO $712,170 19,367
15 PC CALL OF DUTY $726,941 18,875

Huge numbers for Doom 3
 
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SyNapSe

Member
wow, those sales seem crappy. Are PC sales always this low? Is this due to so many people pirating the games?
 
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sonycowboy

Member
Datawhore said:
To tie people over until the Sept Consoles sales figures come out.

PC NPD Top 15 August 2004
1 PC DOOM 3 $20,727,140 387,463
2 PC THE SIMS DELUXE $572,639 29,024
3 PC MS AGE OF MYTHOLOGY $703,973 24,122
4 PC RISE OF NATIONS $820,936 23,623
5 PC THE SIMS MEGA DELUXE $812,739 22,281
6 PC MS ZOO TYCOON: COMPLETE COLLECTION $646,002 21,898
7 PC THE SIMS: MAKIN' MAGIC EXPANSION PACK $568,612 20,736
8 PC HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED $661,509 20,435
9 PC THE SIMS: SUPERSTAR EXPANSION PACK $435,592 20,364
10 PC STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC $528,441 20,139
11 PC CITY OF HEROES $931,783 19,882
12 PC BATTLEFIELD VIETNAM $747,697 19,542
13 PC WARCRAFT III BATTLE CHEST $775,278 19,420
14 PC COUNTER STRIKE: CONDITION ZERO $712,170 19,367
15 PC CALL OF DUTY $726,941 18,875

Huge numbers for Doom 3
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I guess PC doesn't matter. The absolute biggest game of the year < 400k, while Madden on PS2 gets 1.6 million for the same month. The rest of those numbers just seems so inconsequential. Will be interesting to see what Sims 2, & HL2 can do.

Thanks for the numbers.
 
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Datawhore

on the 15th floor
A lot of the top PC games will sell about 20K/week, but will continue to do so for a couple of years. Slow and steady sometimes wins the race.
 
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Culex

Banned
Chony said:
Whats the Year to Date sales of Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne and the Battle Chest?
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I don't anyone really knows what the sales are, outside of Blizzard.

No one keeps track of PC software sales, and it wasn't until recently that NPD started with actual stats.
 
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sonycowboy

Member
Datawhore said:
A lot of the top PC games will sell about 20K/week, but will continue to do so for a couple of years. Slow and steady sometimes wins the race.
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True, but then it must have been the case that Doom 3 cast a long shadow, because these are month totals, correct? And yes, it's defintely true that the SAME TITLES are on the list month after month after month.

If you think the console sales are top heavy, whoa nelly.
 
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sonycowboy

Member
Culex said:
I don't anyone really knows what the sales are, outside of Blizzard.

No one keeps track of PC software sales, and it wasn't until recently that NPD started with actual stats.
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Not exactly true. NPD bought PCData, which has been doing weekly sales for a LOOOONG time.
 
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Culex

Banned
sonycowboy said:
Not exactly true. NPD bought PCData, which has been doing weekly sales for a LOOOONG time.
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If I'm not mistaken, they only chart the Top Ten per week, not actual sales per title. I hope I'm wrong, though.
 
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Datawhore

on the 15th floor
Culex said:
If I'm not mistaken, they only chart the Top Ten per week, not actual sales per title. I hope I'm wrong, though.
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Their coverage is just as extensive as console, but their PC reporting software is much less user friendly than their console software. Until recently...
 
K

Kiriku

SWEDISH PERFECTION
In Sweden, it's like the opposite. Only the biggest consoles games make it on the top ten all formats list. It's usually dominated by PC games.
 
D

Datawhore

on the 15th floor
Chony said:
Whats the Year to Date sales of Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne and the Battle Chest?
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YTD
WARCRAFT III BATTLE CHEST $6,289,941 147,971
WARCRAFT III: FROZEN THRONE EXPANSION PACK $3,110,382 126,713
WARCRAFT III: REIGN OF CHAOS $1,873,263 59,061
WARCRAFT III: EXCLUSIVE GIFT SET $151,971 5,031
WARCRAFT III: REIGN OF CHAOS COLLECTOR'S ED $18,082 469
TOTAL YTD $11,443,639 339,245

LTD
WARCRAFT III: REIGN OF CHAOS $55,963,170 1,130,915
WARCRAFT III: FROZEN THRONE EXPANSION PACK $17,651,420 560,831
WARCRAFT III BATTLE CHEST $10,176,410 230,381
WARCRAFT III: REIGN OF CHAOS COLLECTOR'S ED $10,073,500 155,057
WARCRAFT III: EXCLUSIVE GIFT SET $3,896,084 71,020
TOTAL LTD $97,760,584 2,148,204
 
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Fafalada

Fafracer forever
1 PC DOOM 3 $20,727,140 387,463
"Huge numbers for Doom 3"
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400k is huge? :|
Now I don't know - but considering certain tracker statistics go into milions - are people still gonna insist that stuff didn't affect sales at all?
 
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Shoryuken

Member
I was a bit shocked at how low the PC sales numbers are for stuff like Warcraft 3, but then I realized that PC developers don't have to pay licensing fees to hardware manufacturers, which probably helps.
 
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sonycowboy

Member
Shoryuken said:
I was a bit shocked at how low the PC sales numbers are for stuff like Warcraft 3, but then I realized that PC developers don't have to pay licensing fees to hardware manufacturers, which probably helps.
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But then again, most games launch at $39.99, thus removing that advantage. Of course, the top 1% of games can launch at $49.99, but they do drop relatively quickly compared to their console brethren.
 
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Mrbob

Member
I guess PC doesn't matter. The absolute biggest game of the year < 400k
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What? Doom 3 is hardly the biggest PC game of the year. Perhaps in the top 3, but not the top.


sonycowboy said:
But then again, most games launch at $39.99, thus removing that advantage. Of course, the top 1% of games can launch at $49.99, but they do drop relatively quickly compared to their console brethren.
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Or in Blizzard's case they launch at $59.99 for the regular version and $79.99 for the collectors edition with the expansion clocking in at $34.99. :p

But PC game prices do plummet much sooner.

I didn't even know we could get PC sales data numbers. Keep the info coming!
 
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