Analyst: Diablo III will sell 5 million copies in its first year

[2000cc]

sethnintendo said:

2000cc said:
If its PC only in its 1st year I'll go out on a limb and say there is no way it'll make 5 million,

wouldnt be surprised if it got pirated 15 million times, but real sales will be less than 5mil, it seems only a small portion of the PC market feel obliged to pay for games these days. The PC gamers I know think it is their right to get games for free and wouldnt buy a brand new AAA title if it was 50 cents.

It will sell almost as good as SC2.  You know how much SC2 sold at first?

No Idea, but feel free to enlighten me

I see that VG still has SC2 at less than 3.5 mil though? can that be right, I thought there was a sea of rabid Blizzard fans out there who would buy anything Blizzard may have even mentioned is cool, let alone actually produced. were they all playing Wow for the SC2 launch or something??? (sorry i'm female & not a Blizzard fan, so I dont tend to follow them at all)

Of course again, the rabid sea may have all pirated SC2, I work with at a uni with many academics who are PC players & I heard on decent authority most PC piracy rates are at least 10:1 (and most of them pirate exclusively too, despite being on 6 figure salaries, priorities right?!?!)