| YoppaDo said: Don't know what you think of this, but does The Sims 2 deserve to be on the list? It's approximately 13 million just on the PC version: http://planetthesims.gamespy.com/View.php?view=PressReleases.Detail&game=8&id=77 Of course, these are shipped numbers but given the age of the article could well be within range. |
Good find.
There's nothing wrong with shipment numbers. Fear of shipments numbers is what keeps Wikipedia's list so crappy. And on a long enough timeline, shipment numbers will be more accurate than sales, especially for best-selling games which will have 100Ks or 1Ms of sales in smaller markets never tracked.
However, I don't think the press release indicates that is only PC sales. So The Sims 2 will be slotted in both lists at 13M total. Non-PC sales are listed on VGC at 2.71M, but are very imcomplete. So I'd guess they go up to about 4M+, and that PC sales are at least pushing 10M by now.
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