chess. WTH happened???

[richardhutnik]

silicon said:

richardhutnik said:

silicon said:

Settlers of Catan came out.

You know, I could do the exact same thing regarding Catan.  How many people here play it?  Catan is a brilliant game, but why not have it sell millions of copies?  I believe it, lifetime, may of sold less than ModNation across all platforms.  Among boardgames, it is a success, but in the big picture?  They actually sell more chess sets than Catan games annually.  That doesn't mean people play chess though.

I thought Catan sold at least 30 million... seriously.

Interesting.  I don't believe it did that may worldwide.  I may be wrong on it not doing as well as ModNation though.  But here is one article, that said it didn't even break 1 million in the United States as of 2008:

http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/magazine/17-04/mf_settlers

HOWEVER, the same article did say 15 million worldwide. This popped up in Wikipedia.