Activision Revenue for 2008 - MMORPG #1, PS #2, Wii #3

[Ail]

mike_intellivision said:

Ail said:
Those 99 millions $ of PC sales do not include the WOW box sales actually, those are in the MMORPG section.
The reason being that WOW expansion sold over 3 million copies at 50$ each last quarter so it can not be included into that.
So PC sales have to be sales of others games like CoD, Diablo2 battlechest, starcraft battlechest.
Heck when Diablo 3 was announced last summer Diablo 2 battlechest climbed to the top 5 pc sales shortly there after for a few weeks.

Actually, this was net revenue (profit) not gross revenue. And the article said that the PC sales were included in there -- I would guess because maybe that information was gotten out of the financial report document (but of course, this is Kotaku, so one can never be sure).

 

 

I still maintain what I say, and the article seems like extrapolated from the financial not some information obtained directly from Activision.

There is no way  3 million copies of WOTLK ( that's first week sales by the way, sales till end of december were probably in the 4 millions range)+ regular Wow copies ( which still charts well on PC sales) + whatever D2, Starcraft, GH3, CoD4 and co amount to 99 million $

Another reason I say this is Blizzard has stated their revenue on Wow is around 10$ per account ( more in US/Europe, less in China), multiply by 11 millions subscribers, multiply by 12 months and that is already over the MMORPG revenue, remove cost of sales ( mainly in China where it is operated by a third party) and that seems to be around the net revenue listed for MMORPG..