Weekly PC Sales: Go Go 'Fallout Trilogy'
by Chris Faylor, May 13, 2009 8:37am PDTIf you've been paying attention to the recent sales charts, you pretty much know what to expect from NPD and its listing of the ten best-selling PC games at U.S. retailers.
Still, there's one surprise tucked away in there: Interplay's recent "Fallout Trilogy" bundle--packing Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics--popped up as #7 on NPD's chart.
As usual, digital distribution outlet Direct2Drive saw some significant changes to its best-sellers over last week, mostly thanks to a recent sale on Ubisoft-published titles.
NPD's Top Ten (4/26 - 5/2)
- World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King / Blizzard / $32
- The Sims 2 Double Deluxe / EA Maxis / $20
- Left 4 Dead / Valve / $29
- World Of Warcraft Battle Chest / Blizzard / $39
- Empire: Total War / Creative Assembly / $50
- World Of Warcraft / Blizzard / $20
- Fallout Trilogy (Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics) / Interplay / $20
- Demigod / Gas Powered Games / $39
- The Sims 2 Apartment Life Exp. Pack / EA Maxis / $20
- Spore / EA Maxis / $50
Direct2Drive's Top Ten (4/26 - 5/2)
- Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate / Ossian Studios
- Assassin's Creed / Ubisoft Montreal
- Far Cry 2-Fortune's Pack DLC Bundle / Ubisoft Montreal
- Call of Juarez / Techland
- Final Fantasy XI Vana'diel Collection / Square Enix
- Civilization IV / Firaxis Games
- DCS: Black Shark / The Fighter Collection
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 / Ubisoft Montreal
- Cryostasis / Action Forms
- Rome: Total War Gold / Creative Assembly
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I suppose I can answer my only question with the theory that with every new year comes a new crop of young kids with machines who dad finally let them play an MMO, or college kids looking for a fix in the solitude of their dorm room nerdom, but still - the fact that a box title, even WoW, can sell like this for so long is perplexing, even if there is enough reality to back it up.
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