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Weekly PC Sales: The Sims Dethrone The Lich King
Chris Faylor
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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.

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

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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  • CoreContingency legacy 10 years
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    January 12, 2009 9:23 AM

    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]

    • jbury legacy 10 years
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      January 12, 2009 9:26 AM

      you can buy it online from blizzard which probably doesn't count towards the sales

      • SilverSnake legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        January 12, 2009 9:38 AM

        This. Borrow media from a friend or download it and then you just send Blizzard some money and they upgrade your account. No fuzz with going to the store or entering cd-keys. Those numbers are definitively not included in those numbers you got there.

        • Neech legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          January 12, 2009 9:26 PM

          You get to download the game using bittorrent totally officially when you buy it online.

    • Chris Faylor legacy 10 years
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      January 12, 2009 9:39 AM

      I think the TBC and WOTLK numbers are just for the first month at reatilers.

    • [deleted] 1452365323 legacy 10 years
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      January 12, 2009 10:10 AM

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    • M337ING legacy 10 years
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      January 12, 2009 10:37 AM

      Those numbers were only accurate as of a few months after each expansion's release. Blizzard just doesn't bother releasing their latest numbers because everyone already knows they're huge.

    • capt tripps legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury mega
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      January 12, 2009 4:50 PM

      The Battle Chest probably screws with the numbers too.

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