| shio said: I'm pretty sure World of Warcraft has sold over 10million. Last numbers we got from Blizzard was the 9.3 million active accounts back a couple of months ago. So definitely WoW has over 10 million copies sold. |
That subscription number includes bulk subscriptions in Asian countries which don't follow the boxed retail game model quite like Japan, America and Europe do.
Nonetheless, it is an ACTIVE accounts numbers (Blizzard has been very specific I believe), and given how old the game is, there are probably hundreds of thousands of no-longer active accounts.
But I just used the numbers on the site. I wasn't going to bother looking up the 8M+ shipment number for Halo, or adding the 300K undertracking of Mario Galaxy compared to NPD December.
I think, btw, that Big Brain Academy will probably break into the top 100. It has held up exceptionally well over time.
Until recently, I would have agreed that SM64DS was dead in the water too, but it jumped up significantly over the holidays.
GTA:LCS will be able to break in at least temporarily. There's a whole group of games within 100K of it.
And Twilight Princess will probably have enough legs for a temporary top 100 spot as well.
Mario Party 8 depends on when Mario Party 9 comes out.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
