Will Starcraft 2 reach 20 millions sales?

[FaRmLaNd]

Tanstalas said:

FaRmLaNd said:

I don't know about doubling but modern warfare 2 has massively outsold the original. Yes I know that it was the first call of duty game, but starcraft has picked up a huge amount of goodwill in the 12 years since its release.

EDIT just read the RTS bit. Warcraft to warcraft 2 did it, at least according to vgchartz data. And hey its a Blizzard title!

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans 2.08

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness 4.21

Interesting, also the fact that WC3 sold less than WC2...

Though a 2 million more than the original is a lot less than saying 9 million more for SC :)

I'll stick with my 15 mil LTD :)

I don't actually think that wc3 sold less. Its initial shipment was 4.5 million and I read on an aussie box recently thats it'd shipped 6 million copies (plus its avaliable digitally on battle.net now) worldwide. But thats besides the point, 1 to 2 doubled, and since we're dealing with starcraft 2 not 3 its hardly a valid ellipsis...

I certainly don't think that its a done deal that it'll reach 20 million and 15 million is certainly more realistic. The fact that we can actually discuss this as possible (and 15 million seems likely) is amazing given the conventional widom around here in regards to the pc market and of course the negative reaction to bn2.0. I had thought it'd simply sell aswell as the original before the vgchartz article and its fantastic that it'll probably do better then that.