COD 4 Pc sold less than 2 million units? Piracy is to blame?

[shio]

Slimebeast said:

ssj12 said:

Slimebeast said:

shio said:

Crysis sold 1 million in 45 days, and reached 1.5 millions in less than 6 months. It's probably above 2 millions now, and who knows it might sell over 3 millions lifetime.

 

Shipped.

No it was sold because a decent chunk of the sales were packaged with GPUs.

Not really.

Of the first 1 million shipment I estimate only 4-500,000 were actually sold. Then they shipped another 500,000 (so 1.5 mill shipped in 6 months could be announced) but these 500k were bundled with grafix cards. Then Crisis ended up in bargain bins, so today probably most of the remaining 500,000 from the first shipment could be sold to customers. And add a couple of 100.000 from DD (through EA store?) and you got barely 1,5 mill sold lifetime of which 500,000 is GPU bundles.

It doesn't really matter because if it's shipped it means it doesn't include digital sales. But the biggest part is that the game still sold 500k after it reached 1 million, which tells that Crysis was still being sought and bought.

Since then, Crysis came out on Steam and several other digital services, and recently the Maximum Edition was released on Retail. Crysis didn't stop selling. It is currently EA's 2nd and 7th Best Selling game on Steam, above Spore, Red Alert 3, etc...http://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Electronic%20Arts/