PAL Charts week 11 (2009). Resident Evil 5 and Sonic ATBK debuts.

[shio]

BKK2 said:

shio said:
@BKK2: E:TW, just like almost any PC game, should keep selling for years and will easily reach 100k, and possibly 200k.

Well, my comments were about March sales, not LTD sales. Of course E:TW will reach 100k, it just won't reach it as quickly as it's first week sales suggested. As for almost any PC game selling for years, the vast majority quickly drop out of the top 40 never to be seen again. Here's Week 10 UK budget chart:

PC CD Games (Budget Price)
Week ending Mar 7, 2009

World of Warcraft: 516,736 / 515,679 / 1,057
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade: 334,627 / 333,762 / 865
Mysteryville 2: 9,450 / 8,596 / 856
The Orange Box: 78,710 / 77,874 / 836
Amazing Adventures of The Lost Tomb: 14,807 / 14,077 / 730
Bejeweled 2: 43,840 / 43,132 / 708
The Sims 2: Mansion and Garden Stuff: 27,852 / 27,192 / 660
Age of Empires 3: 263,933 / 263,297 / 636
Peppa Pig: Activity Pack: 47,957 / NA
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3:182,993 / NA

Compared to X360 and PS3:

Microsoft Xbox 360 (Budget)
Week ending Mar 7, 2009

Halo 3: 1,008,183 / 1,002,794 / 5,389
Kung Fu Panda: 263,347 / 260,029 / 3,318
Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures: 337,718 / 334,626 / 3,092
Mirror's Edge: 147,616 / 145,842 / 1,774
The Orange Box: 119,483 / 117,812 / 1,671
Tom Clancy's Endwar: 66,303 / NA
Project Gotham Racing 4: 389,129 / 387,768 / 1,361
John Woo Presents Stranglehold: 114,868 / NA
Battlefield: Bad Company: 166,245 / 165,091 / 1,254
Sega Superstars Tennis: 137,998 / 137,051 / 947

Sony PlayStation 3 (Budget)
Week ending Mar 7, 2009

Mirror's Edge: 111,368 / 109,661 / 1,707
Tom Clancy's Endwar: 47,595 / NA
Dead Space: 69,719 / 68,339 / 1,380
Gran Turismo 5: Prologue: 413,166 / 411 803 / 1,363
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2: 155,461 / 154,495 / 966
Haze: 110,118 / 109,167 / 951
Battlefield: Bad Company: 91,639 / 90,835 / 804
Assassin's Creed: 390,231 / 389,499 / 732
Madden NFL 09: 24,229 / NA
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune: 242,969 / 242,266 / 703

There's nothing special about sales of old PC games, they generally sell less than old console games.

You are actually wrong. I remember some guy once saying that the nº100 PC game at NPD sells better than the nº50 game from any console.

If you look closely, the Xbox 360's Top Budget game sold 5400 copies, yet the nº8 sold only ~1300 - that's a 76% drop. While on PC, the Top Budget game sold 1057 and the 8th did 636 - only a 40% drop. It's more impressive if you remember that PC has probably more budgets games than all other platforms combined. Many 10+ year old PC games are still being sold in the stores.