Weekly PC Sales: The Sims Dethrone The Lich King

by Chris Faylor, Jan 12, 2009 9:07am PST

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The Sims 2 Double Deluxe has ended World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King's seven-week reign as the top-selling PC game at United States retail outlets.

Straight from sales-tracking group NPD, the below data covers December 28-January 3. Apart from a shuffling of positions, the only difference between this list and the past three weeks is the regular edition of World of Warcraft replacing Bejewled Twist.

The Sims 2 Double Deluxe / EA Maxis / $14 (Average)
World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King / Blizzard / $40 (Average)
Spore / EA Maxis / $44 (Average)
The Sims 2 Apartment Life Exp. Pack / EA Maxis / $20 (Average)
World Of Warcraft Battle Chest / Blizzard / $38 (Average)
Fallout 3 / Bethesda / $50 (Average)
Left 4 Dead / Valve / $49 (Average)
Call Of Duty: World At War / Treyarch / $50 (Average)
World Of Warcraft / Blizzard / $20 (Average)
The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff Exp. / EA Maxis / $17 (Average)

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By: cool_canuckian x Show Full Post

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Jan 12, 2009 3:17pm PST

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How can World Of Warcraft sales still be so strongÉ

Jan 12, 2009 8:06pm PST

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The ranking is deceptive in terms of general success. The top sims game costs on average 14 bucks...it has to sell more than twice the cited numbers of retail WoW boxes to actually be a legit 1st place. And...you don't need to buy a retail copy of WoW to buy WoW.

Jan 12, 2009 5:10pm PST

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The ranking is deceptive in terms of general success. The top sims game costs on average 14 bucks...it ha... : Sageous
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  No sales figures? The sims2 could have sold 500k in copies and the lich king could have sold a few thousa... : Durajim
  - That logic is technically valid, but unlikely in practice since the last report had them flip-flopped in ... : Sageous
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  The Sims 2 has practically been on that list since it first came out. I'm pretty sure it's sold more tha... : timmie
  - It did but no other game did. If you aggregate expansions (8 for sims, 2 for wow) it's even closer, which... : Neech

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By: CoreContingency x Show Full Post

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Ok, I don't get it. Why the large disparity between the number of WoW subscribers and number of copies of expansions sold?

(lifted from Wikipedia, so accuracy is questionable, but let's presume the numbers are ballpark...)

# World of Warcraft (11.5 million subscribers)[214]

* World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade [expansion pack] (3.5 million)[215]
* World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King [expansion pack] (4 million)[214]

Jan 12, 2009 9:23am PST

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Ok, I don't get it. Why the large disparity between the number of WoW subscribers and number of copies of... : CoreContingency
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By: Vegtro x Show Full Post

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SIms 3 is going to be in the number 1 spot for quite a long time next month.

Jan 12, 2009 12:17pm PST

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- A month can only be approximately one month long, just saying. : verminer
- It already is, why else would there be a screen shot of the Sims 3 as the header image? : Durajim

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I don't believe it's out in asia yet, where a huge amount of those 12 million people play.

Also, as with steam (or i'm pretty sure steam works this way, they were talking about how the left 4 dead on the list is only box copies or something a while ago), copies sold online may not count towards the number of copies, since it's a retail sales tracking group or something.

Jan 12, 2009 9:31am PST

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I don't believe it's out in asia yet, where a huge amount of those 12 million people play. Also, as wi... : hopterque1987
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- edit: also the battle chest is both the original game and burning crusade. : hopterque1987

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