Diablo III - Official Discussion Thread - Who will beat Inferno first?

[mjk45]

pezus said:

mjk45 said:

pezus said:

http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20120523005532/en/Blizzard/Diablo/Entertainment

In short:

4.7m sold first day (3.5m normal buys + 1.2m from WoW annual pass)

6.3m sold first week

Biggest PC first week ever

Second biggest overall first week ever (on a single platform)

Biggest release of the year by far (so far ;o)

It prints money

so if you take away the 1.2m that where given away as part of the wow annual pass is the 5.1m still a record?

Yes, I think so. 5.1m alone is still insane! But a lot of the 1.2m WoW players would have bought the game anyway I think, so we shouldn't discount that part of the numbers.

I agree a lot of the WoW players would have bought it and probably a it enticed quite a few to buy an annual pass or continue , but for it to be a fair record I think you do have to discount it  and in some ways that makes the 5.1m record  even more meritorious .