Battlefield 3 is a perfect example.

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FaRmLaNd said:

To quote some numbers. "with a further 500k estimated for digital PC sales" (http://www.vgchartz.com/article/88353/battlefield-3-sells-more-than-35m-copies-in-first-week/)

I have no idea how accurate that number is, but since we're using this sites figures that means the pc version has sold an estimated 1,157,505 on the pc and that doesn't include the second weeks digital sales. So yes, whilst the sales aren't as strong as the consoles over 1.1 million sales certainly isn't bad. Especially considering it doesn't include any further digital sales.

Furthermore there are rumours that it'll be released on Steam. If thats the case then I'll be buying it because I held out because I don't want to use Origin.

Yeah.  Lack of Steam probably really hurt them there.  Steam is the market leader afterall.